All 3 Uses of
wrath
in
Pygmalion
- ; for although I well know how hard it is for a man of genius with a seriously underrated subject to maintain serene and kindly relations with the men who underrate it, and who keep all the best places for less important subjects which they profess without originality and sometimes without much capacity for them, still, if he overwhelms them with wrath and disdain, he cannot expect them to heap honors on him.†
Act Pref.
- HIGGINS [in despairing wrath outside] What the devil have I done with my slippers?†
Act 4 *
- Put that along with her resentment of Higgins's domineering superiority, and her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting round her and evading her wrath when he had gone too far with his impetuous bullying, and you will see that Eliza's instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her Pygmalion.†
Act 5
Definition:
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(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment