Sentence examples similar to desiring retribution from inspiring English sources

"The more traumatized someone is, the more they will seek or desire retribution," says George A. Bonanno, director of Columbia University's Loss, Trauma and Emotion Lab, who has studied New Yorkers' responses to Sept. 11.

I expected anger, vindictiveness, a desire for retribution.

But he suggested that in the streets there was a more pressing desire for retribution.

"Often this can bring a sense of anger and desire for retribution.

Fear and frustration permeate the diary, but not despair, or desire for retribution.

The gap between the two million dead and the elderly defendant with decayed teeth defeats any desire for retribution.

The loathing of the bankers in the 20s hardened into a desire for retribution in the 30s.

The desire for retribution has been visited on tobacco companies, who have been slapped with staggering "punitive damages".

In the later work, this will in the main have been transformed by the desire for retribution".

Anger, grief and the desire for retribution are understandable, and we can all agree that people who commit serious crimes should be held accountable.

Prospero is not so much describing the past as reliving it, and the urgency of his desire for retribution feels palpably, almost unpleasantly real.