But when they come from someone you know, particularly a deluded old walrus like Hoxey, well, they don't arouse quite the same wrath.
Joyce, smarting under early rejections, wished that his work would glean the same wrath as Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," in short, to be so scandalous as to incur a public trial.
[Wicked men] are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God, that is expressed in the torments of hell.
After the breast-beating tedium of Clash of the Titans (tagline: "Titans will clash") comes more of the same in Wrath of the Titans (presumably "Titans will wrath"?), in which Greek mythology is once again transmuted into campy Hollywood cheese.
And because EVERY one of their songs sounds the same, The Wrath of Marcie (if only their songs were half as good as their titles) sticks to the aforementioned formula and any sincerity or originality becomes lost in what feels like one, long cartwheel of a marketing exercise in modern pop music.
Schreiber doesn't run the same risk because the wrath of his Isaac Hamilton is never presented as anything but alien, aberrant, utterly beyond the pale — nothing an ordinary person might feel sneakily attracted to, or find huddled in the dim, hard-to-get-at corners of his own miserable soul, which are the places horror fiction is supposed to illuminate.
Ostensibly a sequel to 2010's similarly silly Clash of the Titans, with several of the same actors reprising roles, Wrath echoes last year's Immortals, offering the further adventures of demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington), who must stop the escape of the evil Titans -- imprisoned in the Underworld -- who want to overthrow the gods and destroy the Earth.
Prior to the film's premiere it opened in theaters in 1999, propitiously on June 4, the same date that The Wrath of Khan was released in 1982 director Robert Burnett and I traveled to the Cannes Film Festival with Mr. Shatner... or Bill, as he preferred to be called.
Trimming even the silliest of these measures (such as those preventing public photography of children) risks the wrath of the same tabloids who also fulminate about red tape.
The Los Angeles Times referred to the candidate's "coursing wrath" at the same time that Mr. Riordan sharply curtailed his public appearances.
And right-wing politicians, even some former candidates for the Republican nomination for president (think of Alan Keyes or Mike Huckabee) have spoken in apocalyptic tones about same-sex marriage and the wrath of God.
