Sentence examples for vicious child from inspiring English sources

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One fashionable young woman possesses "the look of a gnome or a prematurely vicious child," while another is deemed "a good-looking girl with an ugly mouth".

One minute she is ravenously needy, the next a vicious child who screams, "You're nothing," if she doesn't get her way.

The New Yorker, August 30 , 1941P. 7 The war is two years old this week - and a nasty, vicious child if ever we saw one.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, August 30 , 1941P. 7 The war is two years old this week - and a nasty, vicious child if ever we saw one.

He is killed by a vicious child who has no real motive, and, what's more, the murder comes mid-episode: not for Omar the tense, wild-west stand-off afforded Stringer Bell or the urgent, tragic inevitability of Frank Sobotka's final rendezvous with the Greek.

Charisse's classical ballet training was to the fore in The Unfinished Dance (1947), choreography by Lichine, in which vicious child Margaret O'Brien has a crush on Cyd, and plans to advance her idol's career as a prima ballerina by causing an accident to her rival.

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Unlucky in love, Reddy has had three husbands, to whom she refers by number rather than name: One was an alcoholic; Two, she says, was a substance abuser who acted as her business manager, stole her money and involved her in a vicious child-custody fight; and Three barely figures in the narrative.

The breakdown of society in the "real" world is reflected by a series of vivid tableaux in the world on the other side of the wall: when the real Emily tries to take on responsibility for the welfare of a group of wild and vicious children, Emily-though-the-wall battles to sweep up an unceasing flood of dead leaves.

Reuters reports that the British music industry biggie, EMI, is looking for ways to substantially reduce the amount of cash it hands out to those vicious child-suing trade groups known as the RIAA and IFPI.

And hanging around on the fringes, hoping for a glimpse of Lallie, are Gemma and her unlikely playmate Pauline, a vicious, neglected child from a background so rough it makes Shameless look wholesome.

She remembered the shame, the pity, the humiliating difficulties of the journey, and the ugly, vicious, backward children he was with in the special school where he had been placed after they arrived in America.

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