Sentence examples for vile temper from inspiring English sources

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So how does she relate to the least admirable aspects of Cleopatra's character - her capriciousness, the egotism, the vile temper?

Mr. Feld has a famously vile temper -- which he readily admits -- but lately it seems to be ever-so-slightly toned down.

Everyone knew Pickering drank and had a vile temper, but he put on a fine mass with lots of bells, smells, Latin and children's choirs.

He has transformed himself into a crude Mississippi redneck with a sharp tongue and vile temper: "Fuck the goddamned preacher," he cries at one point, and, when his privacy is invaded by one of his unquantifiable grandchildren, he raises a menacing hand.

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Vile tempered, toothy, carnivorous and the size of a medium pizza at adulthood, it bites hard enough to dent a broomstick.

When with him Elizabeth could ignore his vile, sadistic temper and feel a stirring, she wrote, "to be handmaid to the lord".

Describing the Herald newsroom the night of the incident, he relates a "vile collective temper" among the white sub-editors: "They cursed until their voices became hoarse, threatening dire consequences for all terrs and munts or kaffirs.

Like Humbert, Alex uses language to disarm the reader and temper the details of his more vile acts – this being, as another character accurately observes at one point, part of "his craft and artfulness".

Here, a civil society coalition managed to get people to stop smoking in clubs for a mere two nights last year.In Hamra, a hip quarter of west Beirut popular with journalists and students, we drink "doodoo shots", a vile concoction of vodka, lemon juice and Tabasco with an olive at the bottom to temper the taste.

Many people are vile.

Comprehensively vile.

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