in a wrathful voice she demanded to know what had happened
Recent Examples on the WebThese concessions might make Hamas even stronger, however, and a wrathful Israel is less likely than ever to be willing to take such chances.—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2023 The New York judge presiding over one of Donald J. Trump’s criminal trials imposed a gag order on Tuesday that prohibits him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, the latest effort to rein in the former president’s wrathful rhetoric about his legal opponents.—William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024 That 1991 platform worried both Washington and many of the island’s voters, who then and now, have shunned any move toward formal independence, fearing a wrathful reaction from Beijing.—Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024 For example, this cleanser imbues pimples with a conscious mind and wrathful spirit, compelling them to destroy their creator in a grisly bloodbath of unfathomable agony.—Ysabel Yates, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2023 Ants’ ears hurt with each bullet fired from wrathful machine guns.—Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2023 So for the benefit of everyone who has to work with MRI, here is a devotional litany which might just keep your scanner from getting wrathful at the crucial moment.—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010 What comes next might have been Logan’s raging-on-the-heath moment, the embittered cry of an alienated patriarch, but instead of wrathful he is uncharacteristically resigned.—Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023 Like Hotei, Daikokuten underwent significant transformations in Japan, from a wrathful protector to a jolly god of wealth.—Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023
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