Sentence examples for vicious take from inspiring English sources

It's a bracingly vicious take on spending Christmas with dull people – best if you imagine it delivered in a sardonic drawl.

Shostakovich's biting satire of the Soviet period is retained, but like much of the Helikon's output, the opera also works as a vicious take on the problems of modern Russia.

But the play is by no means a vicious take-down.

We went up to say, 'Guys, we'd like to congratulate you on your success.' Sid Vicious took one look and said, 'Fuck off!'" In some cases, the vitriol was deserved.

In Greece the Civil War happened a decade later than Spain and though vicious, took place as part of the onset of the Cold War.

How to redress the balance without putting women at risk? Groups defending the rights of "throwaway dads" have proposed that New York join the many states that make joint custody the presumptive norm, which might discourage some of the vicious winner-take-all wars that take place over custody.

In the late 1980's, pit bulls made headlines when some owners trained them to be especially vicious to take part in dogfights, usually to the death.

Paul Anka had the nerve to cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with none of Nirvana's spit and too much polish, but history provided the best comeuppance: Sid Vicious's take on Anka's "My Way" is so repulsively smarmy that all the ghouls in rock 'n' roll purgatory cackle for all eternity.

(Sidenote to both you and myself: Remember that even if a derby girl's name sounds cute, she's still vicious. Take the name "Killer Crouton," for instance. It has nothing to do with salad toppings you might choke on. Just stop reading it at "Killer," shut your mouth if you have nothing good to say, and move on). 5.

It's a vicious cycle: Take antibiotics, get dysbiosis, get C. diff, treat C. diff with antibiotics, get dysbiosis, get C. diff again, get antibiotics again, etc.

Eastern European LGBT activists find themselves in a vicious circle: Take up Western strategies for gay rights, and get criticized by the right for being too Western and by the left for being too mainstream.