How To Use viciousness In A Sentence
- The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
- At the time I was outraged, and I can still feel anger about that cold-blooded viciousness.
- The sentencing judge noted "a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, and callousness."
- The large caliber bullets tore into the approaching enemy soldiers with viciousness.
- Doubtless, the rabble-rousers of the Middle Ages who led the persecution of ‘witches’ were fully aware of the viciousness of their acts.
- In explaining the viciousness of the war in the Pacific, the virulent racism of all the participating countries is crucial.
- His prodigal disposition of the box of matches impressed most of them as reckless dare-devilism; his haste, anxiety, and a single instance of mild profanity told others of his viciousness. The Daughter of Anderson Crow
- You also wrote: "Every workplace or institution is full of politics and petty jealousies, that is human nature, but the sheer viciousness and bloodthirstyness of academia is astounding. The Dangers (?) Of Academic Blogs
- He includes a sample from an answering machine about his ‘Internet press’ after he says some crits are ‘hoping that their viciousness will boost traffic on their site.’
- Hughes's central concern was to display the suffering of the convicts and the viciousness of their gaolers.