Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image of Pazuzu, the malaria-bearing demon of the southwest wind, the "king of the evil spirits of the air." In the Old Testament the Devil was satan, the Hebrew word for adversary, as in the Book of Job. Throughout the Old Testament, he remains clearly subject to the wrath and will of Yahweh. But the New Testament began to give the Devil stature, especially with Jesus' temptation in the desert, when the Devil offered him all the kingdoms of the world (Matthew...
After three weeks, the wrath of the Tutsis appeared to be waning. But the toll had been terrifyingly high. No fewer than 50,000 and perhaps more than 100,000 people had been slaughtered in the fighting and in the massacre that followed. The Hutu tribe, moreover, had been deprived of its leadership and left with a terrible lust for vengeance. In the words of a United Nations report, "Burundi has slipped back an entire generation in three terrible weeks...
...roughed up in a scrimmage. Williamson and Johnson were apparently recruited not only for their athletic prowess but for their pectorals. Both are frequently required to shed their shirts and flex their chests. This provokes lustful cooings from any black women in the vicinity as well as envy and wrath from Whitey, who is generally a scrawny racist with a telltale gleam of madness...
...inability as an artist to change it. The healing Christian love, so strongly preached in the earlier writings, proved inadequate but remains as a rhetorical echo. The righteous, cleansing fire he summoned for "next time" is now only a vague and sinister "shape of the wrath to come." He talks of morality as a living thing, but he is crushed by the truth that the struggle for political freedom is decided by raw power...
Feigning degeneracy equal to the factions', the samurai succeeds in provoking another war, but lapses into compassion and rescues a farmer's abducted wife. For the first time, he directly involves himself in the action. As a result, he incurs the wrath of both rival groups who try to kill him and only through the aid of the coffinmaker is our hero rescued. Several days later he has recuperated enough to confront the survivors of the war. With the watchtower in the background, the shot shows the warrior gazing down a dust-blown street at his opponents. They...