So Stalin and Beria, when they were --- when they were running the terror, they liked to devise this kind of -- this kind of gangsterish, brigand-like kidnappings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Moreover, in a recent subscribers issue of Counterpunch (Vol. 16, No. 7) Pam Martens describes the game-plan of the “Free-State Project” to take over the state of New Hampshire by force and create a laissez-faire society reminiscent of the wishes of Messrs. A and B and the gangsterish primary ponerogenic union, Club B, which I described inPart II. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It should not look like some shabby impromptu of gangsterish thuggery. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)
I begin to see him as a very improbable man, lean and dark with the gray dyed out of his hair and a seeming need to look half gangsterish in that long slick coat. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)
His jailers are Hirst's menacing, gangsterish, Cockney-accented servants: Foster, played coolly as the smoother, more obviously gay one by David Walliams (of TV's "Little Britain" in his first "straight theater" role); and Briggs, played by Nick Dunning, as the one who delivers the Pinteresquely boring road-directions monologue while shimmering with suppressed violence. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is only one possible logic behind the claims of insensitivity, behind Fox News 'John Gibson's hysterical clucking about a "War on Christmas" and Bill O'Reilly's gangsterish calls for shoppers to avoid department stores that don't explicitly refer to Christmas in their holiday promotions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Much of the south, which is somewhat stable, is subject to gangsterish, theocratic and thoroughly corrupt local governments. ❋ Unknown (2007)
(There were a few reports of gangs of suburban youth attacking urban demonstrators while police stood by, leading to suspicions that some of the more gangsterish suburban elements had made deals with the police; but such incidents seem to have been exceptional.) ❋ Unknown (2006)
An older woman sitting next to me on the ground floor mentioned that she absolutely loathed Willie Brown, Jr., the gangsterish ex-mayor of San Francisco. ❋ Sfmike (2005)
Hardly well-mannered assessments; but they have a brutal, gangsterish authority. ❋ Unknown (1981)
It was to end this gangsterish tumult that King Alexander took the disastrous step of proclaiming a dictatorship in l909. ❋ Unknown (1969)
The gray, featureless screen lit up with his own portrait, full-face and profile, looking as it always did in Grant's own eyes darkly and menacingly gangsterish. ❋ Asimov, Isaac, 1920- (1966)
[DAMN] that was [gangsterish]! ❋ Chizz-zo (2004)
