Word: vengefullness
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When it was all over, the questions belonged to everyone, every pundit and prophet and armchair analyst. Did it have to end this way? Did the feds just get restless and vengeful at the crazy people who had killed four of their colleagues? Were the Davidians in fact intending to...
"Just grow up as fast as you can," a storekeeper advised Jonathan, and so , he did, throttling the hatred that gave his life meaning. He learned to read from his only possession, a secondhand McGuffey's, and molded himself a crude set of false teeth. At 16, he ran away...
Baerwald's cast of misfits, misbegottens and woebegones are not merely marginal types. They live on both sides of the margin: under it, like bats clinging to the top of a cave, and above it, delineating it, marking off new limits for themselves to cross. Triage is inhabited by both...
Wyatt and Susan sometimes sound as if they were born and raised in a Garrison Keillor monologue about quirky loners and appealing blasphemers. Aunt Ellen's Scripture-in-progress posits a God that is neither loving nor vengeful, only curious. "You might as well pray to a telephone pole," she...
Evita's climb in social status has its costs, though: The innocence and ambition of her youth slowly turns into a vengeful bitterness against those she has struggled so long to become part of--the upper class. We also see her personal ambitions supersede those for her country as she...