Sentences with phrase «vicious gossip»

When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight.

The rot only sets in after Flynn's death, when the woman the vicious gossip queen Hedda Hopper calls «the peg - legged scheming mother» can't let her plots to exploit Beverly or the vodka bottle go, and the moralising, salacious outside world gets to gawp.

In addition to Zeta - Jones and Molina, this all - star supporting team includes Stanley Tucci as studio boss Jack Warner, Judy Davis as vicious gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Dominic Burgess as «Baby Jane» co-star Victor Buono, Sarah Paulson as Geraldine Page, Kathy Bates as Joan Blondell and Kiernan Shipka («Mad Men») as Davis» daughter, B.D.

I didn't find the Indian people to be any less prone to vicious gossip than Westerners.

Disengaged employees are the ones who encourage mutinies, pass on vicious gossip and hurt brand and client relationships along the way.

But even the most vicious gossip can be a useful tool as well as a guilty pleasure.

They were both vicious gossips and fierce, self - appointed guardians of the community's righteousness.

Not exact matches

This is the type of behavior that waters the weeds of gossip to grow, leading to a vicious cycle of slandering and rumor spreading.

Moms know, but dads might not, that girls can be vicious in their gossiping and backstabbing and this shows up when one girl feels insecure and copes by trying to take down the shining star... Amy was that star!

Burt Lancaster stars as vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, who ropes an unprincipled press agent (Tony Curtis) into smearing the up - and - coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.

The press circuit is a vicious, speedy beast, and so if you've wandered past forum gossip and random screenshots of these meme - tastic elements, know that there's a significant and challenging product underneath the unnecessary throwbacks.

Even the super-bitchy gossip columnists Thora and Thessaly Thacker (both played by Tilda Swinton) aren't that vicious, really.

The elegant Algonquin Hotel, designed by Goldwin Starrett and opened in 1902, was a gathering place for famous writers, actors, editors, critics and playwrights — including Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, Tallulah Bankhead and Harpo Marx — whose regular «Round Table» meetings (or vicious circle, since the members thrived on gossip and pranks) helped make the hotel even more famous.