Sentence examples for vicious FORMS from inspiring English sources

The book focuses on the role that a more respected and self-confident Islam could play in forging enhanced inter-faith relations in a world that desperately needs them as it struggles to understand and deal with modern and particularly vicious forms of radical Islamism.

But such self-righteousness only increases the likelihood of a nationalist backlash, which could take some very vicious forms.

While none of this reeks of the more vicious forms of violent repression, it still has a nasty, authoritarian smell.

In an irony of modern history, which stalks revolutions and revolts to this day, the search for a new moral community has constantly assumed unpredicted and vicious forms.

Nonviolence allowed the leaders to expose the villainy of their foes aggressively, to make their enemies' sins work against them as they were exposed in ever more vicious forms.

At this time it seems important to support and encourage anyone who has the courage to stand against those in power who will tolerate only complete endorsement of their views, those who use subtle, vicious forms of blackmail to intimi date all communications me dia.

We suspected the fight was between the vicious Interior Ministry and other branches of the government.

"The Royal Tenenbaums," a mock family saga, was so vague in meaning that one could enjoy it only by hanging on to Gene Hackman's obvious pleasure in playing the vicious Royal.

Lawmakers will have a chance to show that, beyond the fear and loathing that's driving vicious House partisanship, a shred of comity can still be managed, especially when it comes to the victims of Sept. 11.

From the Bolshevik Cheka, through Stalin's vicious NKVD, the KGB and now President Putin's modern intelligence agencies, this is a country that revels in its reputation as the home of spying, ruthless, cunning and expert.

Carolina quarterback Jake Delhomme looked around Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday night and watched the reputedly vicious Eagles fans streaming quietly to the exits as the final seconds of the National Football Conference championship game ticked away.