Sentences with phrase «nasty piece of»

I watched a little of the doco about PL Travers the other night on TV and I don't think even Emma Thompson could have portrayed what a nasty piece of work she really was!

«It was a nasty piece of business.»

Everybody is going to think you are the other guy, (who has been around for quite a while) who by the way deletes comments he doesn't like and is basically a nasty piece of work.

The «admiration» expressed by the guru character goes along the lines of «if we want to fight them properly, we need to learn from them so that we can wallop the bejasus out of them asap» It's a deeply, deeply, nasty piece of writing — but an interesting cultural artefact for all that.

Nasty Piece Of Stuff contrasts speedy film fragments of present - day Soho nightlife with plaintive accounts of the 1960s gay scene.

Raiden wields a high - frequency blade, which to you and me essentially means a bloody nasty piece of kit that can slice through metal and concrete like it's a fermented milk product (butter), raising the immediate question of how anything is actually a challenge to Raiden since he can simply slice right through it like it wasn't even there.

Elwood is a nasty piece of work, but Phoenix plays him with an impressive quiet confidence.

Michael Wolff, who would go on to write a book that is not at all pulpy or propagandistic, called Zero Dark Thirty a «nasty piece of pulp and propaganda»; Naomi Wolf straight up called director Kathryn Bigelow a modern - day Leni Riefenstahl.

After initially jumping through various hoops at the whim of his son's captors, Tom eventually hatches a plan to give this nasty piece of work some food for thought.

«[The script is] a nasty piece of work.

A truly nasty piece of work, Suburbicon sees a bunch of candidly left - leaning movie stars doing their best to out - awful each other.

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.

Writer - director Oren Moverman (working from a novel by Herman Koch) eventually reveals that Paul is mentally ill; Paul and Claire's insufferably entitled teenage son is a nasty piece of work who set a homeless woman on fire; Stan's stepson is an imbecile who recorded the murder on his cellphone and posted it.

It's an effectively nasty piece of work, well - acted and filmed with a blue - gray pallor that sometimes made the DVD image (2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen) hard to make out on my portable player but is more than apt under the circumstances.

A nasty piece of work he was.

When faced with a movie like Listen Up Philip, a clever, nasty piece of work, I have to wonder if Hollywood's insistence on likeable characters doesn't have some merit.

She's not doing the kid a favor: Slue's a nasty piece of work who locks the boy up, cuts out his tongue, and raises him, under continuous threat of torture, to be his enforcer — the devoted offspring who'll sic his daddy's enemies like a mad dog because he doesn't know any way to behave but to obey.

However, some scenes are quite effective and suspenseful and in the end Body Snatchers, despite its faults, is a nasty piece of paranoia (especially if you share my dread of people in uniforms)...

Disney films do villains better than any other company, so it feels right that Sanders first port of call is making sure that Ravena is a memorable, nasty piece of work.

Sure, he is little more than a nasty piece of work, stereotypically bound to his honour, yet Momoa plays it well, creating a wickedly nasty character.

«He was a documentary filmmaker who made The Eternal Jew, a really nasty piece of work.

The titular «bad teacher» is Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz thankfully back in funny mode) and she is indeed a nasty piece of work.

Directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama), from a script by Chase Palmer, Gary Dauberman and Cary Fukunaga (True Detective: Season One — the good season) the film is based on King's 1986 novel which became a highly rated ABC miniseries in 1990 and featured Tim Curry as the nasty piece of business known as Pennywise.

Season 2 affirms that the series is not merely a fine and nasty piece of entertainment.

Propelled by Minneapolis Sound porn - funk and lit in the glow of strip - club signs, Ferrara's scuzzy thriller is a nasty piece of work.

Tom Ford «s Nocturnal Animals is a beautiful and nasty piece of work.

A slick, cynical, nasty piece of heist - film plotting that hides its more obvious logical gaps in techno - babble and distracting spectacles of wanton violence and big explosions.

It's a nasty piece of work.

Charlie is a nasty piece of work who reluctantly agrees to look after Max after the boy's mother dies.

A very nasty piece of work, indeed.

Yes, she of «fat f*cking turkey» fame, is shown reeling off her CV to some unwitting polo player, who clearly doesn't realise what a nasty piece of work she is.

Last week I covered the steps to go through when trying to remove a nasty piece of malware from your computer.

As religion editor Andrew Brown in his Guardian blog suggested: «It's a really nasty piece of lying propaganda: something which deserves to be called hate speech, since hatred is its wellspring and the propagation of hatred is its goal.

Smart writes that Chamberlain was «an unpleasant man, a nasty piece of work», a view held by many of his contemporaries including the Labour Party and some Conservatives.

Yes she fed him and never crossed the line of permanent physical damage, but yeah, she was definitely a nasty piece of work.

The departure of former Rovers boss Sam Allardyce was both a shock and shocking, with the club's clueless owners installing former club first - team coach Steve Kean as manager until the end of the season in a nasty piece of business which came across as a stab in the back for Allardyce, who produced miracles during his time and Lancashire and will no doubt be a wanted man in 2011, unlike tickets to Blackburn games despite Venky's best efforts to revamp the club and turn it into Real Madrid.

Ramires is really a nasty piece of work.

RVP was a long term injury case, Ox likewise and lazy as well, Ozil, a lazy, though talented weakling; Nasri, a nasty piece of filth and glad to be got rid of him.

injury yes thats an issue an yes hes a nasty piece of fluff... but i stand by what i said when the transfer went through diego costa is only behind sergio aguero in this league - no one else.

That's called politics dude, Kolcieny is very tight with Giroud so obviously he's not going to say anything bad about him or bring attention to the fact that he's a nasty piece of work.

If Evra is shown to be telling the truth, then Suárez is a despicable human being; if Evra is shown to be lying, then he's a nasty piece of work.

We have an absent, non-sporting owner who is a nasty piece of work and cares nothing for people at all, certainly not those who work in his many sports franchises.

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

I'm quite sure Jesus would approve if I told everyone I know what a nasty piece of work that fellow is.

This Bill is the nastiest piece of legislation in a long time, even compared to the depths to which New Labour sank in the early - 2000s anti-asylum hysteria.

It is hard to believe a man could be this patient with some locals that really are nasty pieces of work.

«The Killing of a Sacred Deer» is an infinitely nastier piece of work, and it seems to unfold in an entirely closed system, from which any trace of hope or redemption has been thoroughly expunged.

Solidarity with Kathy Sierra is one thing, letting the nasty pieces of work win by going silent is quite another.

Macs do have an anti-malware feature known as «XProtect» or «File quarantine», but it only blocks a handful of the most nasty pieces of malware after they've become widespread.

Not exact matches

From Royal Baby news to Gossip Girl — style soaps to tabloid magazine pieces about the Hiltons, we love stories of heirs and heiresses and great dynastic families — particularly if those families meet a nasty end.