Sentence examples for vicious tendencies from inspiring English sources

At the hospital, Alice sees the most vicious tendencies of Karachi — murders and molestations that go unreported, bodies that go unclaimed.

Furthermore, the film-makers have resuscitated Sister Hildegarde (who in real life died in 1995, long before Sixsmith's visit) to act as the principal villain and embodiment of all the Catholic Church's most vicious tendencies.

But at least Atlanta fans do not have the vicious tendencies of the mob that booed as Giambi went hitless in five at-bats yesterday in his first game in the House That Tino Martinez Built.

Moreover, there is a long tradition of writers decrying vicious tendencies in nations not their own.

That was about twelve hours before Schumer's book release was thoroughly eclipsed by a controversy surrounding Kurt Metzger, a writer on her Comedy Central show who has a self-admitted history of violence against women and an alarmingly vicious tendency to defend men accused of rape.

The show takes advantage of the freedom of language and suggestiveness the Internet allows, but its mechanics — the fidelity with which it mimics the "Bachelor" format, while exaggerating that show's more vicious and venal tendencies — are surprisingly conventional.

Burke once said that her ideal man is "a plumber with brains", so it stands to reason that a psychotic Borstal boy (Winstone starred as the vicious Carlin in Scum) with thespian tendencies should be just up her street.

The vicious attacks of Sept. 11 could only strengthen the tendency to see militant dissent as a species of pathology.

And as your mental health declines, your tendency to ruminate increases, leading to a vicious cycle that is hard to break.

Michael Barrymore's tendency to dissolve into tears, Eighties pop singer Pete Burns' vicious verbal attacks, basketball player Dennis Rodman's crude sexual advances and George Galloway's cat impersonations all made the public love Chantelle more for being so normal.

The autoregulatory mechanism might override the physiological tendency to seek sleep, thus aggravating sleep deficits, worsening vigilance instability and thereby starting a vicious circle ending up in full-blown mania [ 4].