(1) When she is not at her desk, nervy Virginia is being beastly to the staff, ordering her mutinous cook to make a train journey all the way from Richmond to the centre of town to get some sugar-ginger for lunch.

(2) You have certainly suffered from some pretty beastly journalism at times.

(3) How man turns beastly to man as soon as you grant him an inch of power over his victim was very interesting, especially the power games and humiliation meted out.

(4) But fear not as the boy wizard is only perfecting a little magic away from the prying eyes of his beastly uncle Vernon.

(5) The police said that he was quite annoyed with his wife as she had protested against his beastly act.

(6) It's beastly , but it can be treated, especially if it's caught early.

(7) I once had a tiresome interview with his wife about the beastly thing.

(8) Mopp gear - the stuff soldiers have to wear to fend off the nasties - is not only beastly to wear, it also reduces your vision and slows down your optempo.

(9) Trampling in stilettos over her father's reputation, she reveals him as a drunken, hypocritical philanderer with a beastly temper.

(10) So why all the beastly transmogrifications, I ask Kay over our lunchtime bowls of coconut and lime soup.

(11) What soft sensitivities did CNN's beastly behavior violate?

(12) Once there he got rid of those beastly worms, planted flowers and trees, and built his hundredth church, which he dedicated to the Holy Apostles.

(13) It's been a beastly job - the builders had used some user-unfriendly adhesive, making the removal of the old vinyl a slow, messy and tedious task.

(14) But it was beastly , their violence and our fear of violence.

(15) Yet again you moaned about how you hate acting, hate film-making and hate all the beastly attention.

(16) Machiavelli's celebrated advice is that he will come off best if he learns to imitate both the fox and the lion, supplementing the ideals of manly decency with the beastly arts of force and fraud.

(17) I wish this beastly winter would hurry up & get over.

(18) When even well-meaning people get together in hierarchical, committee-rich structures, they do beastly things and call it progress.

(19) Kennedy's lieutenants made it known they want him to quit, but would not be so beastly as to force him to go.

(20) Now see here, my good man, if we send these fellows back, will you promise not to be beastly to them?

(21) I wonder if you wouldn't find a self-destruct timer inside the beastly things if you knew where to look.

(22) That was beastly uncomfortable, and made me even more glum.

(23) Leeds, however, was dismissed in a letter as u2018a beastly placeu2019, and Harrogate was u2018the queerest place, with the strangest people in itu2019.

(24) I tend to have little time for the argument that evil is an external property that is independent of any viewer or participant of the action mainly because it's often used by people to justify some quite beastly things.

(25) Professor Hanson was being quite beastly to Jane when Dick's hand shot up amidst the sea of uniforms with a question.

(26) That may be satisfactory to you but it is beastly monotonous here.

(27) Anyway, I'd better stop being a beastly child and get on with it.

(28) They give us a bracing insight into the beastly side of our own nature that can manifest itself in our leaders, even though we are a fundamentally decent people.

(29) Napa cabernets and the so-called u2018cultu2019 cabs can be beastly expensive, but not necessarily better.

(30) While lecturing the men of Ireland in public about their mistreatment of women, they apparently had no problem being beastly to each other in the privacy of their home.