Sentence examples for vicious practical from inspiring English sources
Mr. LaBute's best film is still his first, "In the Company of Men," in which two male business associates contrive an elaborate and vicious practical joke on a female colleague simply for sport.
It's no surprise, then, that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) audiences have embraced King's revenge tale about a telekinetic misfit teen who turns her senior prom into a fiery holocaust after she's made the butt of a vicious practical joke.
Evidently he does not, particularly when he (and Sancho) is surrendered by Cervantes to the sadomasochistic practical jokes - indeed, the vicious and humiliating cruelties - that afflict the knight and squire in part II.
Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929.
I am one generation separated from seeing the most vicious prejudice America has ever visited on a race, practical if not intentional genocide.
The best reasoning that a vicious person is capable of, according to Aristotle, is a defective simulacrum of practical wisdom that he calls "cleverness" (Nicomachean Ethics 1144a25).
Her middle-class men were often crude and stupid, while the women were either incredibly practical or exhibited poor judgement, usually using poor grammar that could become vicious.
"It was just vicious, vicious.
There is practical wisdom to be had as well in T. Gilbert's 1856 how-to book, "The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses".
