Sentence examples for private grievance from inspiring English sources

Whatever his message, it turned him into a provincial sorehead nursing some private grievance.

Ball presents us with a skilled barber nursing a private grievance, who only gradually turns into a demonic serial killer.

Mark Felt, the now revealed Deep Throat, was clearly acting out of private grievance as much as a sense of the public good.

The suit caused consternation among first amendment activists concerned that the ability of a billionaire to use the courts, in secret, to destroy media outlets based on a private grievance – Gawker had previously outed Thiel as gay – would have a depressive effect on freedom of the press.

Agencies should make sure that contracts include third-party beneficiary provisions and should require their contractors to create private grievance mechanisms.

Some of those assassinated had nothing to do with the war against America but were targeted because of private grievances.

Speaking of anger issues and private grievances, it was good to see Terrell Owens play last night, even if the Bills lost.

The problem is one of how to respond to excess - fabulous fortunes self-administered by fat cats or heaped upon people of modest talent and minimal achievement - as well as to drug wars and postcode gangs that resort to the knife and the gun to redress private grievances that are beyond social remedy.

Scurrilous journals kept by the romance writer initially seem a source of grief only for Raj but have wider repercussions after they are stolen, parsed and sent as letters to the targets of the novelist's private grievances, precipitating in one case the discovery by the minister's wife of her husband's irredeemable insensitivity and her son's criminality.

This operation, like most of their legal operations, is to determine the extent to which they can turn private grievances into public ones.

That saga — unlike the Dipoto situation this week — lasted for months, not days, with plenty of private grievances aired publicly.