Sentence examples for vicious figure from inspiring English sources

Ironically, when Turk's career as a YBA was taking off and his Sid Vicious figure was the talk of the town, Warhol's catalogue was in decline (partly precipitated by the Warhol foundation desperately undervaluing his work to avoid onerous death duties).

Toward the end of his life the complex demands of a vast family (he had at least nine wives) led him into difficulties regarding the succession, and it was then that he developed into the gruesome and vicious figure that Christian tradition has made so familiar.

The Chechen insurgents appear only as shadowy, vicious figures, slitting their captives' throats or trading them as slaves.

In addition to its devil protagonist, the novel is laced with Christian symbolism that includes a vicious Jesus figure and a Mary whose chastity is very much open to question.

One after another is knocked off, with venal and vicious authority figures a favorite source of pain.

In many diseases (e.g. lupus or type 1 diabetes ) it is considered that patients with the disease are more prone to sepsis, but we suggest here that (as with stroke ) it may more likely be the converse that is truer: patients suffering from latent infections are in fact more prone to acquiring, having, or exacerbating the state of these other conditions, in a vicious cycle (see Figure 9).

As the vicious attack continues — the figure stabs Anhang again and again before crashing a loose cobblestone over his head — Anhang manages to call out to his nearby wife, Aurea Vazquez Rijos, a former Puerto Rican beauty queen.

Beloved public figure committed vicious sexual crimes?

It's a vicious cycle and a figure eight.

A beloved public figure committed vicious sexual crimes?

Unless they can break this vicious circle of poor figures and bad choices, organizations that have fallen on bad times can't hope to mend themselves.