Sentence examples for a punishment from from inspiring English sources

To him, her liberation felt like a punishment from God.

The critic Jan Kott describes the bleak turn of events as a punishment from the gods.

They claim that the floods were a punishment from God for their vices.

The avian metamorphosis was a punishment from the gods, not a reward.

Mottke says this surely was a punishment from God. Zeinvel says he hopes he meets up with Mindle in Gehenna.

Was she a gift from God, a punishment from the devil or was this just a different natural order?

Aging thus is in no sense a punishment from on high, but brings its own blessings and a warmth of colors all its own..

They have picketed the funerals of dead soldiers with signs claiming their deaths were a punishment from God for being tolerant towards gay people.

Christian and Muslim leaders fulminate against promiscuity and claim that AIDS is a punishment from God to be endured, not cured.

After the Sichuan earthquake, one student told me the disaster was a punishment from heaven and that the government would have to make amends.

Even those of us who consider disco a punishment from hell get nostalgic over some of the Bee Gees songs from Jon Badham's SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977).