All 12 Uses of

wrath

in

The Sunlight Dialogues

The drunk--he was pale and effeminate and quick to wrath--would stop singing at this, as though the name Herr Robert had some meaning the others didn't catch.†
Chpt 2 *

It was no one's fault--the fault of a ghost: the casual effect of time, of inevitable change, generations of Presbyterian ministers, gentleman farmers, public servants, lawyers, judges, all rising together in the apparition of one man who in his prime had a quick, deep brain and the eyes of a Moses and a voice like ricocheting thunder calling down God's wrath on Federalization.†
Chpt 3

In every glittering maid I'll plant my burning wrath till the last flame That cracks my chest is spent away to head And the parched ribcage cools to easy dying.†
Chpt 7

Louise said (they were kneeling on the carpet in the livingroom, working with tinker toys Madeline was too small to work--they frustrated her to tears of wrath--and the record player was on in the background, Spanish music that neither of them liked, though they wanted to like it, because friends did.†
Chpt 8

For all his sharp tongue, his whining misery, his wrath, he too had eyes of the kind that must look sometimes at swallows.†
Chpt 11

There came into his mind the beginning of a new way of telling the story of Saul and the harper: "There was a king full of wrath and vindictiveness, the Bible says, and he was what you'd call a man with a demon in him.†
Chpt 11

And one image especially: in the yellow-beige motel room as sterile and gross as a doctor's office he lived through again the mockery and wrath of the woman in Clumly's office.†
Chpt 13

And so Will Hodge drove angrily now, wounded with helpless wrath and frustration, heading west toward the Indian Reservation.†
Chpt 13

Had gone to Paxton full of wrath knowing Paxton no more in the wrong than Taggert but undaunted by that because Taggert was his brother, and not even Millie's predictable conviction that she'd forced him to go there could keep him from it (she'd be wrong, clear as it might seem to her; her scorn at his failure to go earlier had not driven him to it but had merely made it occur to him for the first time that he could go) and had stood in old Paxton's office like a boulder, jaw slung…†
Chpt 13

But that was wrong, he knew; her French was bookish, and what gave him pain was not the memory of Stony Hill but the revelation of her alter-soul's entombment: She came alive, speaking French; all her humor irony and wrath came suddenly together like fire and powder, and the Millie who'd survived went dark and fell away, and the woman she'd once meant to be rose out of the grave of abandoned hopes, came striding forth, as confident as a smiling ghost at dusk.†
Chpt 15

Then he had seen the two graves, and had seen the gentle, forgiving Ben, though they did not speak; and in his sorrow Taggert had fallen out of wrath.†
Chpt 21

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