But he surprised me nonetheless, putting a daring, devastating twist on a screen persona — the amiably glib American suburbanite — that he has hitherto so comfortably established, dredging up reserves of coiled rage and self-loathing spite beneath the bland jocularity.
Still, Virginia gets pregnant out of spite, rage and despair, as if the only way she can free herself from Mommi is to do what's both expected and forbidden.
The title of Dan Melchior's current album, "Bitterness, Spite, Rage and Scorn" (In the Red Records), doesn't quite sum up his songs, which also have the exuberance of garage-rock and a streak of art-rock drone.
Look at anger, rage, spite and envy and you are probably looking at a faithful Christian deep in the process of transformation.
For the average woman, this means stratospheric levels of rage, spite and anger coupled with ample amounts of loneliness, depression and despair.
He's full of rage, spite and meanly jocular misogynist badinage.
Finally, game and spite over, they embrace.
Where have "anarchy and spite" disappeared to?
Vindictiveness and spite.
Which rule, that we may all duly observe, by throwing aside all scandal and detraction, all spite and rancour, all rudeness and contempt, all rage and violence, and whatever tends to make conversation and commerce either uneasy, or troublesome, may the God of peace grant for Jesus Christ his sake, &c.
