Vicious circle

Vicious circle

Vicious circle may refer to:
*Virtuous circle and vicious circle, a complex of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop toward greater instability; some examples:
**Begging the question, a kind of logical fallacy
**Positive feedback, in science
**Cycle of violence

Music:
*Vicious Circle (music label), a Hard Dance music label
*Vicious Circle (punk band), an Orange County hardcore punk band
*Vicious Circle (hip hop band), UK rap duo
*"Vicious Circle" (L.A. Guns album), a 1995 album by L.A. Guns
*"Vicious Circle" (Zero Boys album), 1982 record by Zero Boys
*"Vicious Circle," a 1989 album by the British punk band, The Vibrators
*"Vicious Circle", a song by Lou Reed from the 1976 album "Rock and Roll Heart"
*"Vicious Cycle" (album), 2003 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Film:
*"Vicious Circle" (1996 film) [http://www.videodetective.com/movies/VICIOUS_CIRCLE/trailer/P00572971.htm] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118078/] directed by Scott Farrell
*"Vicious Circles" (1997 film) [http://www.videodetective.com/movies/VICIOUS_CIRCLES/trailer/P00104742.htm] directed by Alexander Whitelaw
*"Vicious Circle" (2008 film)

Other:
*Vicious Circle (comics), a fictional character group from the "Savage Dragon" comic book series
*"", an HBO comedy special featuring Dane Cook
*Vicious Cycle Software, a company
*Algonquin Round Table, whose members referred to themselves as "the Vicious Circle"


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  • vicious circle — A vicious circle is a sequence of events that make each other worse someone drinks because they are unhappy at work, then loses their job... Vicious cycle is also used …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • vicious circle — UK / US or vicious cycle UK / US noun [singular] a process in which the existence of a problem causes other problems, and this makes the original problem worse the vicious circle of unemployment and homelessness …   English dictionary

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