| She glares at me perniciously, and then turns her back, with a sharp exhalation, and her arms shaking firmly at her sides. |
| If that trust is gradually and perniciously eroded in one important industry, the entire system can fall under a shadow of doubt and suspicion. |
| For the public service, the affair demonstrates its fragility in the face of both ministers and, more perniciously, ministerial staffers. |
| But youth unemployment is rising perniciously across much of the developed world. |
| Contemporary sectarianism has fully exploited this perniciously ambiguous state of affairs. |
| That message is not only perniciously false, it is the hallmark of the totalitarian mindset. |
