Sentences with phrase «nasty piece of work»

The movie is a real nasty piece of work at times, but it's also not without a sense of perverse fun and beauty.

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

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.

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

A very nasty piece of work, indeed.

I was happy to see Diaz take a part that certainly differs from her usual sweet, girl next door persona; she's one nasty piece of work here!

Arnie leads a squad of compromised DEA agents out to make a buck on the side in the ugliest, nastiest piece of work on the actor's CV.

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.

She's a real 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.

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

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.

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.

He needs to go, it's only preseason and Giroud is already playing games to unsettle Lacazette, he's a nasty piece of work

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.

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.

«Since [Cuomo's] sagging polls are in part due to people understanding he's a nasty piece of work — Astorino's use of «scorpion» is dead - on — perhaps he should try governing and see if that works.

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.

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

It's a nasty piece of work.

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

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.

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

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

My, but what a nasty piece of work is Andre DeToth's Play Dirty (1969).

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.

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.

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.

One is the casting of Sean Harris as Browning, the MRF captain — a nasty piece of work topped by a semi-Beatle cut and sideburns.

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.

Greer as the stunning conniver gives her character depth and a veneer of vulnerability — one minute we're sure she's a nasty piece of work, the next we admire her bravery in extricating herself from an abusive relationship with Douglas.

Kurzel's sole previous feature, The Snowtown Murders, is a nasty piece of work about one of his country's most notorious serial killers; his next project, due Christmas 2016, will be Assassin's Creed, based on the video game series.

A nasty piece of work he was.

is a nasty piece of work, and DC's animated projects have almost always skewed toward more family acceptable fare.

Sloane is a nasty piece of work.

All is not what it at first seems, however, and we soon learn that the real threat to mutant - kind is General Stryker (Brian Cox), a nasty piece of work with a complicated past involving military science (whatever that might mean).

He was convincing as a rom - com fixture until he played the nasty piece of work Peter in «Divergent», so now we're pretty sure his versatility renders him unpredictable.

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.

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

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.

Raw Julia Ducournau's debut film about a vegetarian veterinary student's increasing appetite for flesh amid hazing rituals and a tempestuous relationship with her older sister is a nasty piece of work.

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

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

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.

Second, the UECJA is a nasty piece of work.