Sentences with phrase «vindictive spirit»

Reaching decisions using solicitors can still be a way of indicating to your children that you both still care for them, providing it is not done in a provoking and vindictive spirit.

Clegg had no need to fall in with the vindictive spirit of the bedroom tax, the sale of swaths more social housing, or the ever - tightening screw of work capability tests, as food banks opened everywhere.

whom Jesus had named «sons of thunder,» wanted to call down lightning on the inhospitable villagers after the manner of Elijah (2 Kings 1:10, 12); but Jesus rebuked their vindictive spirit.

The vindictive spirit experienced by the German Weimar Republic after WWI, contributed greatly to the rise of Hitler, and it differs markedly from the spirit expressed in the Marshall plan and other restorative measures following WWII.

Not exact matches

Whereas the genius of the Greeks — so his story goes — was to gaze without illusion into the chaos and terror of the world, and respond not with fear or resignation but with affirmation and supreme artistry, they were able to do this only on account of their nobility, which means their ruthless willingness to discriminate between the «good» — that is, the strength, exuberance, bravery, generosity, and harshness of the aristocratic spirit — and the «bad» — the weakness, debility, timorousness, and vindictive resentfulness of the slavish mind.

Therefore the true spirit of the law is: don't retaliate, don't be vindictive.

But there is a passage in Luke so cruel and vindictive in its implications, so unlike the whole spirit of Jesus, that it is seldom quoted, if indeed it is discovered.

Later, he tossed in more adjectives - «mean - spirited» and «vindictive.»

While some of Gervais» targets were too easy, most of his barbs were mean - spirited, vindictive and, yes, hilarious.

She is someone who is convinced of her own kindness when she's vindictive, convinced that she's sincere when she's a liar, and convinced of her grandeur of spirit when she's petty and mean.

Unfortunately, it turns out to be the same blighted gaff that Radcliffe encountered in the original movie, and is haunted by a vindictive female spirit.

They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self - controlled, only obtuse; not self - respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.

Well, I'm a big fan of real life board games, with the friendly (and down right vindictive) spirit of competition taking hold, and the Mario Party series is a fitting venue.

«Even assuming the truth of all that, «callous, meddlesome, mean - spirited, officious, overbearing, and vindictive» as it would be — it is not enough to meet the outrageous conduct standard required for intentional infliction of emotional distress.