Sentences with phrase «desire for revenge»

... victim families need to know that there's hope, they don't have to stay in that rage and desire for revenge forever.

If they are being punished for eternity, ten the only thing you are doing is satisfying your own desire for revenge and torture.

I've been with Lonnie now for over two years, but I'm not above harboring a petty desire for revenge on CFI.

Where citizens» natural and understandable hatred, fear, and desire for revenge threaten to undermine a fragile peace agreement or an embryonic democracy, restorative political practices may well be essential not only for stability and the conditions needed for moving toward democracy but for what justice can be achieved.

Judge: Pryce was motivated by «an implacable desire for revenge» when she exposed Huhne's speeding points scam

«What drives people to such acts of violence is a long history of humiliation and an overwhelming desire for revenge,» opines Palestinian psychiatrist Eyad El - Sarraj, who directs the Gaza Community Mental Health Program.

Before he knows it, Chris is caught in the sinister web of a criminal whose desire for revenge crushes those who stand in his way.

Can anger or desires for revenge lessen a person's ability to make sound judgments?

Maude's desire for revenge surprised me.

I didn't find Maud's desire for revenge unbelievable.

Reflecting on her service with prisoners indefinitely held in solitary confinement — most notably Herman Wallace, a political prisoner with whom she collaborated for twelve years — jackie sumell asks us to confront our unconscious desire for revenge and our addiction to the narrative of victory.

According to Daniel Diermeier, dean of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and author of Reputation Rules, «moral outrage is accompanied by powerful emotions like anger, disgust and contempt, which in turn may trigger desires for revenge or dissociation.»

In my recent post «A Few Thoughts for Family Law Litigants: Why it Pays to Let Bygones Be Bygones,» I wrote about the foolishness of litigants who allow themselves to be guided by hurt feelings or desire for revenge when taking their family law dispute to court.

But often school shooters lack an overriding motivation, and may be propelled by envy or a desire for revenge, in Cruz's case perhaps by perceived slights at his former school.

The down - tempo also helps highlight the spiritual side of Jay - Z, which Tannone plays to on «Lucifer's Jigsaw,» in which the Brooklyn rapper laments the loss of a good friend, and asks God to take away his desire for revenge, while instrumental cuts from Radiohead's «Jigsaws Fall Into Place» provide a dreary, funeral - like atmosphere to complete the picture.

The desire for revenge or retribution can still haunt me at times.

The brother wronged, instead of seeking revenge, should go to the one who wronged him and work out the issue in private so that the community will flourish and not be torn apart by bitterness and a desire for revenge.

All our fears, our desires for revenge and the stumbling blocks that we so easily project onto God are ours alone and can be undone, let go and forgiven by the One who is coming.

When formal freedom is exercised to gratify one's desire for revenge, inherited from earlier occasions, rather than to respond to the call to forgive, then one's freedom in the deeper sense is slight.

And if the desire for revenge helped Arsenal to perform against the Hornets, that is good news for our chances in the next game, which is away to Slaven Bilic and his high flying West Ham.

Tomorrow will be a difficult game, because Torino have a desire for revenge.

One important discovery in the neuroscience of morality, for instance, relates to the influence of serotonin on behaviour, with findings that suggest that low levels of serotonin seem to increase the desire for revenge and punishment.

The desire for revenge was palpable.

And as in some Aeschylean tragedy, it was that sense of injustice that began to breed a desire for revenge; and it was not long before the politicians found their target.

More than his notorious temper or a desire for revenge, his primary motivation is his career.

The second important finding from the study is that bin Laden's death did not fully quench Americans» desire for revenge.

This desire for revenge on the popular, good - looking people may have motivated his teen - angst opus Reality Bites (1994) later in his career.

You'd think it would be more than enough to fuel his desire for revenge that Christian had him fired, in the previous movie, for making an admittedly criminal pass at Ana, but no: Christian and Ana are so amazingly brilliant that they possess a whole new kind of precognition that allows them to perceive that there must be something else driving him, something that must be investigated and ferreted out.

The only threat to their credibility is that Rapace is supposed to be disfigured after the car accident that spurred her desire for revenge, and the neighbourhood children are tormentors.

Perhaps the greatest is Peter's recognition of how his anger and desire for revenge are poisoning his life.

Instead, the real threat to Thanos comes from Gamora's sister, Nebula (Karen Gillan), who Thanos has tortured within an inch of her life, thus instilling in her a desire for revenge.

Guile's mentor Charlie Nash (last seen in the Street Fighter Alpha prequel games) is bought back to life by a mysterious organization who stoke his desire for revenge on Bison, his murderer.

By the end, it becomes a movie about all of us who are stuck between a desire for revenge and a need to forgive.

THE SALESMAN Asghar Farhadi continues his amazing ability to tell a story that slowly unravels the consequences of its central characters» actions — in this case, the desire for revenge.

Completing the bunch is a financer named Tom (Cillian Murphy), who shows up with a vial of cocaine, a desire for revenge, and a handgun.

Time and body - image issues stoke her desire for revenge, however, putting her on a collision course with Momoa's Miami Man, a brilliant sketch artist who's also a fearsome, unsympathetic consumer of human flesh.

How does Bryan's justification for killing people to rescue his daughter compare to Murad's desire for revenge?

Each of the villains represents something Pete has to work out within himself, whether it's the Sandman's (Thomas Haden Church) past involvement with Pete's uncle's murder and Pete's desire for revenge, Pete's friend Harry's own quest for revenge and the strain his friend puts on his already - rocky relationship with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), or the oozy symbiote from a meteorite that brings out Pete's demons and finds a new host in Pete's Doppelgänger Eddie Brock (Topher Grace).

He is alternately a thoughtful criminal psychologist with a fully intellectual bent and a rage - fueled vigilante driven by his desire for revenge (This doesn't even take into consideration the scenes in which the character is played as a straight - up action hero, like when he holds his own in a brawl with a man who has been established as a formidable fighter).

The Revenant is a riveting tale of brutal survival and the desire for revenge.

As she sets out on a cathartic odyssey with a friend (Carrie Coon) to get some answers, a revelation about one of her son's friends fuels a desire for revenge.

But, as she wonders later in the book, at what point do ignorance, jealousy and the desire for revenge outweigh hope's power?

Ubisoft never take the time to fully flesh his personality out, creating a one - note gruff, generic anti-hero that's hard to like or empathise with past his desire for revenge for his niece's death.

The nemesis system, which in addition to creating a great narrative running in the background, makes players feel like death has consequences without punishing them too severely, while also feeding the player with the desire for revenge.

The desire for revenge never really translates to the player, because the stakes seem just so cartoonishly low.

He's not actually going head - to - head with Big Boss, meaning he can't get revenge on Zero by hurting Venom; Big Boss and Zero aren't even on speaking terms at this point, so getting revenge through Big Boss was already pointless; and Zero is already on his way to his deathbed, utterly demeaning Skull Face's desire for revenge.

«There's no doubt that emotional forces like anger, resentment, desire for revenge, or fear of failure can have very unpleasant side effects, ranging from the destruction of personal relationships to ill health.