Sentences with phrase «righteous vengeance»

"Righteous vengeance" refers to seeking revenge or punishment in a justified and morally acceptable way, typically in response to a wrongdoing or injustice. Full definition
When the state sets out to kill a killer, it becomes instead an actor in a drama about righteous vengeance.
Apparently Po is the only surviving member of his species, which makes him both the target of Shen's violence and an agent of righteous vengeance.
Understandably, others have greater difficulty overcoming a sense of betrayal or a desire for what seems like righteous vengeance against crime and corruption.
We are to seek peaceful ways because our hearts are deceptively wicked; we are unable to administer true righteous vengeance.
Now, me personally, I think I would advise any and everyone to go straight to the police, news, lawyers, hitmen, mob, etc... and exact righteous vengeance upon all involved.
He is all too willing to embody a character that represents blind, righteous vengeance in the name of quaint family values.
Clyde dazzles an obnoxious Jheri - curled celebrity (Seth MacFarlane) by whipping up a martini with two olives and one hand before taking righteous vengeance on his condescending attitude.
The soldiers are fish out of water, doing their best in an unfamiliar, and often hostile country, motivated by a sense of patriotism and pursuit of righteous vengeance.
There's a plot, of course, a meticulously constructed but still thoroughly conventional script by Lem Dobbs that involves outsourced international espionage, corrupt players, dirty tricks, and righteous vengeance, and gives accomplished supporting players Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas plenty of opportunity to play around in entertainingly stylized performances.
This three - disc set boxes up Shoot First, Die Later (1974), a ruthless crime drama starring Luc Merenda as a corrupt cop on a mission of righteous vengeance (previously released as a stand - alone disc), with two disc debuts: Naked Violence (1969), a juvenile delinquent cop drama by way of social commentary, and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), a revenge thriller with Merenda, this time playing an innocent bystander roused to take justice into his own hands.
When the husband of a newly wed is kidnapped on a Caribbean island, she uses the fighting skills taught to her by her gangster father to track down his abductors and deal out some righteous vengeance.
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