Sentence examples for vicious life from inspiring English sources
The story of the beautiful young man whose portrait ages and becomes hideous while he remains unblemished by the vicious life he lives, until finally he destroys it, thereby killing himself, continues to haunt the 21st-century imagination.
His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
Such attitudes lead to a more partisan politics and more vicious public life.
As for Chiang Ch'ing (Mrs. Mao), well, her artful shrieks clear up to high D actually do some justice to her vicious real-life domination of the Cultural Revolution.
One man holds his cards between the toes of a solitary limb, another has a steel jaw in this vicious report on life in Weimar Germany.
In real life, Vicious assaulted NME journalist Nick Kent at a gig at London's 100 Club, though according to Kent he whipped him with a bicycle chain rather than clobbering him with a guitar.
The problem with this, other than its vicious wrongness—"gang life" isn't something to escape, it's something to transform for the better is its fraudulence.
A tweak here, a tweak there seems all we can do, but these tweaks can have a significant effect on our dealings with those momentous and sometimes vicious circles of life.
It examined the relentless vicious circle of a "life of crime".
Robinson characterised Lukic's crimes as displaying a "callous and vicious disregard for human life".
Writer Terry Southern famously called Naked Lunch "an absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life".
