nastiness

How To Use nastiness In A Sentence

• Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
• Myths and rituals get worked over by time and human creativity until the originals show through only in glimmers; fairy tales gain and lose characters, nastiness, and motif depending on the era in which we live. Archive 2007-10-01
• Also, it was nevertheless her Sunday best and, as such, had a certain innate dignity in spite of its nastiness.
• It is glib and empty rationalising, which taken literally would imply that nastiness is a prerequisite for success.
• So lets have less negativity and nastiness in films and video.
• Because people associate Hobbes with unpleasantness, nastiness, and life-and-death contests, they start to use the phrase to refer to any choice that has some of those characteristics.
• A supremely gifted player with a magical touch, he combined charm and nastiness in almost equal measure.
• This sort of internecine nastiness is all too common in law firms, investment partnerships, and other businesses that depend on their owners' harmony.
• One of the direct benefits they get is political advantage when the nastiness of political ads turns off more reasonable people and polarizes the ideologues to cling to their base. Joe Brewer: The Psychology of Manipulation in Political Ads
• We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist.