Sentences with phrase «nasty a piece of work as»

Nasty a piece of work as Putin might be, his government was an improvement.

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A nasty piece of work in which the spirit of the bushman traveller escalates his penchant for opportunistic crime from sheep stealing to stalking and stabbing, Scott's twisty deconstruction of slasher pic tropes is as good a calling - card pic as we've seen from a young Aussie genre filmmaker since Damien Power's similarly sinister Killing Ground in 2016.

You could plausibly go further and suggest that the way the film reinvents PT Barnum — by all accounts a nasty, racist piece of work who exploited his workers without any qualms — as a beaming champion of minorities and misfits, might chime with viewers who wish to see good in men, and find precious little of it around in today's #MeToo landscape.