All 15 Uses
wrath
in
The Adventures of Augie March
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- I admired this patriotic flash, his terrific personal wrath at the general, and his satisfaction over his surrender at Yorktown, which would often come over him at lunch while we ate our bologna sandwiches.†
Chpt 1wrath = extreme anger
- Not that I can see my big, gentle, dilapidated, scrubbing, and lugging mother as a fugitive of immense beauty from such classy wrath, or our father as a marble-legged Olympian.†
Chpt 1 *
- That was the observation we heard after Cousin Anna had come to talk to her—as one comes to a wise woman—amassed herself into a suit, hat, shoes, and sat at the kitchen table looking at herself in the mirror as she spoke, not casually, but steadily, sternly, with wrathful comment; even at the bitterest, even when her mouth was at the widest stretch of tears, she went on watching.†
Chpt 2wrathful = full of extreme anger
- Seemingly the old lady had been waiting for just this to happen and had it ready to tell me that there were faults I couldn't afford to have, situated where I was in life, a child of an abandoned family with no father to keep me out of trouble, nobody but two women, feeble-handed, who couldn't forever hold a cover over us from hunger, misery, crime, and the wrath of the world.†
Chpt 3wrath = extreme anger
- So I don't claim it was a trained spirit turning aside wrath, or integer vitae (how could I?) making the wolves respect me; but I didn't have any taste for the perpetual danger-sign, eye-narrowing, tricky Tybalt all coiled up to stab, for that code, and was without curiosity for what it was like to hit or to be hit, and so I refused all the bids to outface or be outfaced.†
Chpt 5
- But she had a wrath-ruled mind.†
Chpt 8
- He intended that, as there were no more effective prescriptions in old ways, as we were in dreamed-out or finished visions, that therefore, in the naked form of the human jelly, one should choose or seize with force; one should make strength from disadvantages and make progress by having enemies, being wrathful or terrible; should hammer on the state of being a brother, not be oppressed by it; should have the strength of voice to make other voices fall silent—the same principle for persons as for peoples, parties, states.†
Chpt 10wrathful = full of extreme anger
- She shot it off in my face that I wasn't mad enough about abominations or aware enough of them, didn't know how many graves were underneath my feet, was lacking in disgust, wasn't hard enough against horrors or wrathful about swindles.†
Chpt 11
- Simon's patience and swallowing were worse to me than his wrath or flamboyance—that shabby compulsory physical patience.†
Chpt 11wrath = extreme anger
- Me the weary booking agent or impresario, watched by them with wrath and avidity, with tics, with dignity by some and booby-hatch glares by others.†
Chpt 13
- Dull isn't perhaps the word when you consider what disappointment and wrath were kept down.†
Chpt 16
- Maybe she exaggerated her rake-the-heavens wrath and went beyond how she truly felt.†
Chpt 21
- Perish strife, both from among gods and men, And wrath which maketh even him that is considerate cruel, Which getteth up in the heart of a man like smoke, And the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.†
Chpt 22
- And this is true also of meat on the table, heat in the pipes, print on the paper, sounds in the air, so that all matters are alike, of the same weight, of the same rank, the caldron of God's wrath on page one and Wieboldt's sale on page two.†
Chpt 22
- The Ezekiel caldron of wrath, stoked with bones.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)