As he put it, "When you work too hard, you party too hard, and it's a vicious circle.
And no, it's not "Walk on the Wild Side" or "Vicious," works whose very names promise a lurid match with the wayward life of Poe.
Many immigrants are caught in a vicious circle: working 60 or 80 hours a week to save money.
"When the high performance stream can generate the inspiration that happens at home, then high performance is actually helping to sell tickets and sponsorships, and that's when the vicious circle works the best.
Understanding how the vicious cycle works is an essential first step, but so is understanding the ways that we can interrupt the cycle: for our children, for our loved ones, for ourselves, for the communities where we live and the places where we work, and even for our societies.
In his keynote address, Mr. Sweeney said the president was doing an excellent job fighting terrorism, but he condemned Mr. Bush for "waging a vicious war on working families".
There's a vicious cycle at work here.
There is a vicious circle at work here and not only in China.
This irrational vicious action undermined work that had been done during the day by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, as leaders of the Congress Party, to push the government into positive action and dialogue with representatives of the protestors.
It was the blackened wire which Stuart Campbell first spotted, as he tramped off a "vile, verminous, vicious day at work", and since it was almost beside an electricity pylon, he concluded grumpily that he had found some old electrical cable.
