Sentence examples for would be vicious from inspiring English sources

In the advice sense you ought to φ if your not φ-ing would be vicious in some way.

In general, Thomson suggests, a virtue is a trait such that, whatever else is true of those among whom we live, it is better if they have it (Thomson 1997, 282).[28] What we are morally required to do is just what we would be vicious in some way were we to fail to do (Thomson 1996, 150 152, 1997, 286 287).

If neither φ-ing nor refraining from φ-ing would be vicious in any way then you ought to φ if φ-ing would answer to your interests (Thomson 1996, 147-150, 2001, 67 70).[29] Goodness connects to reason insofar as for you to have a reason to φ it suffices that your φ-ing would be good in some way (Thomson 2001, 34 37).

So even if every member of society were to approve of something harmful to humanity, it would still be vicious.

While some leaders have mentioned a host of possible contenders including State Senator John Adler, United States Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. and Robert E. Andrews, and George Zoffinger, president of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the infighting over whom to support would most likely be vicious.

"[T]o think that somebody would be so vicious, so evil as to want to kill little children, and maim families who were there rejoicing in a sporting contest on a beautiful day in Boston, it just makes you sick at your stomach.

"The ultimate winner in a revolution would be a vicious, ruthless person," he wrote in another.

That context would be the vicious anti-Semitism of its founder, Richard Wagner; the festival's close connection to the Nazi Party; and its happy hosting of Hitler.

In the Bronx part of the world, if a Yankee were having such a postseason slump, the tabloid headlines would be blaring vicious insults.

When it was announced that Crook was making a sitcom about detectorists, everyone assumed – presumably because of his savage portrayal of Gareth Keenan, the corporate jobsworth with the pudding-bowl haircut on The Office – that it would be a vicious skewering of this weird subculture.

Ever since the underground-­comix era of the late 1960s and early '70s, when Justin Green poured his Catholic guilt into "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary and Robert Crumbb gleefully skewered his own unsavory impulses, there's been a strain of cartooning that would be a vicious invasion of privacy if it weren't about its creators.