Sentence examples for righteous violence from inspiring English sources

Action melodrama requires villains evil enough to justify the righteous violence committed against them.

The exercise of righteous violence is what turns action figures into pop-culture icons.

Righteous violence had its way, and the results were to be expected.

"All the Pretty Horses" looks like a real old-fashioned western and tries to revive sturdy horse-opera themes of love, friendship and righteous violence.

Film-makers seem to assume the thirst for retribution is so deep and widespread that it can serve as the default driver of righteous violence.

The heavily tattooed, garrulous Read, who has died aged 58, blended the swaggering Australian "good bloke" persona with a belief in righteous violence.

For wealthy white people, the Purge is a carnival of self-righteous violence and self-indulgence — a chance to viscerally assert that they are better than everyone else.

Once the western towns have been pacified, there's no need for his capacity for violence, nor his righteous fury.

It can authorize righteous, vengeful violence or else reawaken the dormant possibilities of melodrama.

Lisbeth can hack any machine, crack any code and, when necessary, mete out righteous punitive violence, but she is also (to an extent fully revealed in subsequent episodes) a lost and abused child.

From ancient Rome ("Gladiator") to colonial America ("The Patriot"), from late-20th-century Maine ("In the Bedroom") to mid-21st-century Washington ("Minority Report"), to be a dad is to be tormented by guilt, menaced by grief and, more often than not, driven to righteous, murderous violence.