More space than the Social Security Act earns is expended on Roosevelt's "capricious persecution" and "insatiable vindictiveness" in pressing tax evasion charges against powerful enemies including former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and Moses Annenberg, the latter a press lord and father of Lord Black's great friend, the politico-philanthropist Walter Annenberg.
Fighting back, he displayed astonishing vindictiveness to political and media foes, mobilising against them the tax authorities, FBI and even the Secret Service.
Mr Bush distorted his rival's record on breast-cancer research and was graceless about the fact that the senator's sister suffered from the disease.These signs of querulousness and vindictiveness need to be set in context not just against other presidents (think of Bill Clinton's volcanic indiscipline, Richard Nixon's mood swings) but also against other parts of Mr Bush's own record.
A madman filled with hate, with guns in his hands, and just a horrible sense of vengeance and vindictiveness in his heart, apparently consumed by rage against LGBT Americans, and by extension, the openness and diversity that defines our American way of life.
Joining the Whitman and Swope offense was the trial judge, John Goff, a thin-skinned, self-educated lawyer, intensely biased against Becker and apparently motivated by pure vindictiveness.
The US embargo against Cuba is nothing less than an act of vindictiveness and spite; the fact it is finally crumbling will alleviate the suffering of millions of Cubans.
The longest-lasting vindictiveness was reserved for Chye Thye Poh, arrested in 1966 for demonstrating against the Vietnam war.
What did was Albee's revenge against a world that said George and Martha, in all their awfulness and vindictiveness, were normal, while we weren't.
In order to argue for a reprieve, she must rein in her vindictiveness and her vanity; Elizabeth, for her part, must weigh the bonds of family against the realities of power.
