vengeance
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Following his advice to blackmail a loose-cannon Prime Minister into resigning causes her reflux to erupt with a vengeance.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I’ve got vengeance in my heart,” he declares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Yet they always resurface, often with a vengeance, never more so than in a climactic swerve that sends Misty to Dubai and involves a very literal reminder of “the bag.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The book explores the performance of niceness, class, intergenerational frictions and how technology makes vengeance not just possible but almost exceedingly easy in the modern age.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Emran III died forty years after, still wreaking vengeance on his unhappy country: Emran the Illfated.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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