Sentences with phrase «vengeance against an innocent»

They complain to Hecate about Hera's acts of vengeance against innocent victims and had come to her for a solution.

It spiralled further out of control when a gang of Israeli youth reacted to the murders by perpetrating their own barbaric vengeance against an innocent Palestinian teen who was kidnapped and burned to death.

Not exact matches

«If we in our turn plan on militarism, vengeance, and retaliation, if we steel our spirits against the suffering which such pursuits always cause to the innocent, in short, if we turn to the tools of death, then whatever hollow triumph we may trumpet, it will have been Death alone which has won.»

This vengeance was directed, not necessarily against the individual who had done the wrong, but against the whole family, clan, or tribe to which he belonged or against any single member of it, however innocent himself.

Peter Strickland, whose other feature movie «Katalan Varga» is about a woman traveling in the Carpathian Mountains with a small boy seeking vengeance against her abusers, is on a similar track in his sophomore feature about Gilderoy, an innocent abroad who seems too overcome by inertia to escape extreme culture shock and thereby reverts into his own hallucinatory world.