Sentence examples for vindictive of from inspiring English sources

Eighteen years, 11 of them in solitary confinement, is surely punishment enough, even for the most vindictive of his enemies.

Placing responsibility for the tougher rules at the door of Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, she added that it was "gratuitously vindictive of Mr Grayling to stop children sending a home-made Christmas present to dad in prison".

Some people who supported the hockey players last winter and who were critical of LaTulippe still accuse him of being vindictive, of setting up his teammates for his own monetary gain.

Filtered through the warped mentality of a young Aum member, the raids prove only that the state is vindictive, out of control and bent on destroying Aum.

Starving families funny huh?? Evil vindictive out of touch government Tories laughing trying disrupt opening Labour statement #taxcredits debate need to remember hard working constituents watching #WorkPenalty Tories are being absolutely disgraceful whilst debating the tax credits cut opposition.

They lived in a web of beliefs, the Lower River thick with spirits — mfiti — most of them vindictive spectres of the dead, restless in their malevolence.

Yet his achievement fell short of reunifying the whole of the Netherlands, and his vindictive pursuit of Oldenbarnevelt helped to divide the republic permanently into Orangists and anti-Orangists.

These could illuminate some of the administration's darker moments, including the lead-up to the Iraq war, when intelligence was distorted, the destruction of videotapes of C.I.A. torture interrogations, and the vindictive outing of the C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame Wilson.

Treat it as a wonderfully vindictive assassination of Catholicism, the power of the Vatican, in a way the chosen faithful seem to be able simultaneously to celebrate and condemn.

Pullman tweeted: "It's one of the most disgusting, mean, vindictive acts of a barbaric government".

Surprisingly, the violence proves less shocking than the purely vindictive acts of cruelty even the best of friends can inflict on one another.