“It often reads like a tutorial in power and intimidation, revealing the ways a dictator's nastiness multiplies.”

“Even though he hadn't treated her in a gentlemanly way tonight, and even though he'd hide the hurt behind nastiness and bad temper, she didn't have it in her to embarrass him.”

“You are not the only person I know who has his nasty moments, but you are probably the only one who flatters himself that his nastiness is frankness, and therefore a virtue. It isn't.”

“It works so well because many of these microscopic nasties are, rather like horror movie vampires, extremely sensitive to light.”

“He lives there with Cynthia, paranoid that the nasties out to get him in the first film will return.”

“And if it is not spam clogging your inbox, it is viruses, worms and other nasties.”