Sentences with phrase «own desire for revenge»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Early on, Kuzco's firing of Yzma sets off her instant desire for revenge, which is realized when she and Kronk attempt to fatally poison the spoiled ruler.

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).

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

Maude's desire for revenge surprised me.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

It reflects on a teenage holiday romance, burgeoning womanhood and a desire for revenge.

Lindsey Mendick's installation Perfectly Ripe is a sculptural and audio mise - en - scène reflecting on teenage holiday romance, burgeoning womanhood and a desire for revenge.

In retrospect, I think the biggest issue with Iraq is that it was partially motivated by a desire for revenge and even more widely perceived as such among Muslims, even moderate ones.

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.»

A complainant may, for example, fabricate an assault allegation to further a civil lawsuit, a family law dispute, or out of a desire for revenge.

Actual innocence — false allegations based on a family or domestic conflict, or another person's anger, jealousy, or desire for revenge;

The desire for revenge invites bad decisions that lead to a long, expensive, and drawn out divorce.

Your dating a new person may cause your spouse to become irrational and filled with a desire for revenge.

Do not give in to a desire for revenge.

Consider this before your anger or desire for revenge prompts you to share private business or financial information about your spouse or you online.

Not exact matches

On the contrary, the humiliated child's desire for total revenge is the real engine that drives these books, which are not only about deferred vengeance (Cromwell's revenge on his enemies) but are themselves Mantel's own long - deferred, carefully plotted strategy for settling old scores.

This criterion is commonly reduced to a disavowal of revenge and a desire for peace.

Samson desired to take revenge on the Philistines who had tortured him, and so he prayed: «Please God, give me back my strength just this one time more, so that I can get even with the Philistines for making me blind.»

But the mayor also said that his outburst last year, in which he accused the governor of shortchanging his political agenda out of a desire for «revenge,» was far from spontaneous, calling the diatribe the result of more than a year's worth of mounting tensions and slights by the governor against de Blasio.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, in candid and searing words rarely employed by elected officials of his stature, accused Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tuesday of stymieing New York City's legislative goals out of personal pettiness, «game - playing» and a desire for «revenge.»

He ascertains that the man responsible is a wealthy and sleazy septuagenarian, whose wife becomes a desired effigy, an object for masculine revenge.

The third film, and jankiest by far, involves Django's quest for revenge, and Tarantino's desire to thumb his nose at the establishment.

It is the filmmaking that delights, and not the tired reveal that some men long to be dominated by a beautiful woman, nor Vanda's unconvincing feminist update — that such a woman will oblige if only to prove that the desire for submission belongs to the man himself rather than to the woman's insatiable quest for power and revenge.

Simple, irresistible desire is what drives revenge movies — desire for retribution, inexorably enacted.