In songs like Rid of Me, she may sound as avenging as one of the Furies, or Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, but in real life she says she prefers to hang out with men rather than women.
She's the BlackBerry-wielding flack as avenging angel.
Until that story, I'd always taken the liberal view of plaintiffs' lawyers as avenging angels, righting wrongs and helping wrest compensation for people who had been harmed by greedy corporations.
If the Shakespearean half of the analogy seems somewhat over the top (following your bliss is not quite the same as avenging your father's murder), the physical demands are understated by a wide margin.
Miller takes her role as avenging angel utterly seriously, with the result that her thinking has ossified into an ideology consisting of a handful of reductionist premises, some dubious scientific evidence and any number of vague claims.
They saw "martyrdom" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement building in the West Bank, wanted by Palestinians as part of their own state.
Barret is first introduced in Final Fantasy VII as an eco-terrorist, leading the group AVALANCHE to bomb Mako reactors in the fictional city of Midgar, so as to avenge the losses dealt him by the megacorporation Shinra, the Planet's de facto world government, who operate under the pretense of saving the Planet.
"If someone killed my children like this, I would seek to avenge it as well".
"Anonymous" referred to this coordinated attack as "Operation Avenge Assange," a reference to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In such cases, the ruler acts as tyrant; the subjects are merely treated as means to avenge wrongs done to him, while they themselves suffer serious loss (DDB 4.8).
