wrathful

Example Sentences

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But Paige’s tragedy is that, for all her reforming zeal, she’s too wrathful to write the future.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

A portrait of Fudo Myo-o, a Buddhist deity, is a product of the artist Myotaku’s devotional act of painting the wrathful figure every day for 20 years.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

But in stressing the legitimate grievances Goneril and Regan have toward their wrathful, capricious father, the production underplays what Cordelia knows about her sisters’ natures long before they reveal the full extent of their depravity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

And she, she knew today that door: a living, wrathful gate.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin