Just last week Stuart's father, Dr. Michael Stuart of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and USA Hockey's chief medical officer, spoke disapprovingly of what he termed a culture of retribution.
It's unfathomable that a widely-known, self-admitted micro-manager, feared by many for his brute tactics towards those who cross him, had neither created a culture of retribution which guided his senior team, or one in which he wielded the heavy-hand himself.
River of Dust is a story of the clash of cultures and of retribution, and also of redemption.
According to her critics, a magnetic leader who once represented this nation's new hope is now reinforcing its culture of political retribution and risking the resumption of a 20-year civil war that has killed 64,000 people.
Maybe there's a way for a sane, nuanced conversation about guns, about the over-the-top political and media culture of grievance, retribution and rebellion, about a middle ground between Mr. Loughner as random, unexplainable, angry nut and Mr. Loughner as a direct spawn of the language of the right, but, well, that will have to wait until the next blizzard in Tucson.
Marooned inside east Germany, west Berlin was, for Bowie, "a city cut off from its world, art and culture, dying with no hope of retribution".
Privacy laws, and implicit threats of retribution, prop up the culture of self-censorship.
At the time, the press chose not to run the story on culture secretary Whittingdale's scandal in fear of retribution.
Our exhibitionist culture may encourage disturbed people to perform acts of retribution that guarantee them maximum publicity; think of the mass shooter as taking a selfie of rage.
Martha C. Nussbaum argues a culture of rage and retribution is harming American society.
