The movie is a real nasty piece of work at times, but it's also not without a sense of perverse fun and beauty. (slashfilm.com)
«He was a documentary filmmaker who made The Eternal Jew, a really nasty piece of work. (combustiblecelluloid.com)
The first half of the book is taken up with Cicero's prosecution of the former governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres, a truly nasty piece of work whose gross injustices against the people of Sicily still make the blood boil two - thousand years after the fact; the second half is taken up with Cicero's political battles to get himself elected. (bookbrowse.com)