Sentence examples for avenge itself from inspiring English sources

It went on to rake in $370m, making it the seventh-highest grossing film ever.Disney's official justification for preventing its Miramax subsidiary from distributing "Fahrenheit 9/11" was that the half or more of America that disagreed with Mr Moore's views might avenge itself on the firm's products and services.

It positions the title character as a pop-culture version of Frank Wedekind and Alban Berg's Lulu — a figure who, in the words of Karl Kraus, succumbs to "the revenge of the world of men, which dares to avenge itself for its own guilt".

Crowded, cluttered and panting with hyperactivity, the plotline of this "opéra bouffon" probably had even more zip in the mid-1850s, when it was aimed at an audience eager to avenge itself on the tedious childhood hours spent studying ancient gods and goddesses.

"The emphasis is that America will avenge itself, and we do take action when we are attacked.

By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it".

By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it". For a few appalling minutes, the vengeance was turned around, and wielded against the laughers.

The paintings were a sensation and bought by the royal family; but are they assertions of national greatness, visions of the Teutonic eagle avenging itself?

In rage at its impending defeat it is avenging itself on the Christians in Armenia for its moral and political failure.

Denied much of their legislative clout, parliamentarians have been reduced to using the chamber to highlight but not, alas, to curb the conservatives' abuses of power.The Council of Guardians duly avenged itself on the biggest party of whistle-blowers, the Participation Front; just two of its 67 serving deputies were cleared to stand.

4 From then on, therefore, our commonwealth prospered until the time of Tarquinius Superbus, when it endured a tempest arising from the evil ways of the monarch and avenged itself only at the cost of grave disaster.

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.