Sentence examples for vicious edge from inspiring English sources

But the movie has a vicious edge that the Marx Brothers didn't have, and it's too low-minded to achieve their enchanting blend of anarchy and surrealism.

Its funky versions of southern soul standards and show tunes can be seen as a precursor to "smooth jazz", but guitarists Larry Coryell, Sonny Sharrock and Reggie Young add a wonderfully vicious edge to proceedings.

(If some of the publishing satire lacks a truly vicious edge, it is because Shields seems incapable of overt cruelty toward the lives she unfolds. An affectionate tenderness prevails, even toward the idiocies of journalists).

Apart, that is, from derailing the title challenge of a local adversary, the rivalry between these two clubs having quite a vicious edge back in the day, before the modern hatred between United and Liverpool eclipsed everything.

But the economic and social inequalities which gave this division a vicious edge (Orange-dominated trade unionism kept Catholics out of better-paid skilled jobs) have long gone, together with the mining and steel industries that sustained them.These days there are more Muslims in and around Carfin, a predominantly Catholic village, than there are Protestants.

Moments later Defoe unfurled a vicious drive from the edge of the area that Jaaskelainen tipped over the bar.

Johannsson lashed a vicious shot from the edge of the box into the corner and that's heart break for Panama.

He came close to adding a second goal of the afternoon in the 75th minute, but a vicious drive from the edge of the area skimmed the roof of the net.

Songs deal maturely with variations on themes of romantic crises and infidelity, often with an intriguing, unpursued edge of extremity: "Vicious Love"'s title is typical.

David Luiz had a 25-yard free-kick pushed way by Doyle, and Sturridge was within a whisker of levelling with a vicious, dipping volley from the edge of the box.

It shows that the euro countries are edging towards a vicious spiral of debt deflation that could bring down the entire economic and monetary edifice.