Sentence examples for driven by vengeance from inspiring English sources

Despite the poster's claims, the plot isn't driven by vengeance, but by friendship and love.

"I was driven by vengeance over what had happened to my Jewish people," he told me; he described himself as a disciple of the Nazi-hunter, Simon Wiesenthal.

The hacker has been using her old codename of Wasp, and has been attempting to crack the NSA – "a lunacy driven by vengeance, and fraught with every possible consequence", said MacLehose.

The prosecutor on the case, Michelle Henry, portrayed Kane as driven by vengeance.

He's the real hero, whose attempts to preserve the human race are ruined by a gun-toting dude driven by vengeance.

The U.S. and Mexican authorities are driven by misplaced vengeance, he says.

Elsewhere in the Rockstar catalogue, we see Max Payne driven by understandable vengeance, and Bully's Jimmy Hopkins smash the bad eggs of Bullworth Academy, but all the while craving popularity for himself.

His performance is the most perturbing thing in the film, even more so than its electrical-torture sequence or its revelations about sex-trafficking; Mills, like some older, vaster brother of Daniel Craig's James Bond, seems driven to — or, increasingly, driven by — acts of vengeance that are only obliquely related to the wrong that is being avenged.

There's nothing wrong with any of that, but "Banshee" also exudes a well-crafted, film-noir sensibility: The characters may often speak with their fists, but they're believably driven by love, regret, vengeance and other bittersweet emotions.

Driven by a thirst for vengeance against two local men whom the gangs believed had betrayed them, mobs of Zetas drove into town, rounded up their extended families and friends totalling hundreds of people and abducted them at gunpoint.

At one point, somebody claims that most killings are driven by "money, passion, or vengeance," but the rest of the film suggests that we should never ignore the power of the accidental and the throwaway, too.