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vengefulness noun acrimony, anger, avengement, danger, dangerousness, feud, getting even, hostility, inexorableness, intractableness punitiveness, recrimination, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, spitefulness, vendetta, vengeance, vindictiveness, wrath See also: rancor, reprisal, resentment, retribution, revenge, vengeance How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As its title suggests, "Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage" is concerned with anger, more specifically with the consideration of vengefulness as a common, appropriate and yet rarely acknowledged response to Jewish suffering. If I write from love and empathy and not from childish notions of pettiness or wrongdoing or vengefulness, if I am as rigorous with myself as I am with my characters, if I do all this and someone nonetheless feels hurt, it pains me and I'll apologize, but I won't feel regret. Were Radford and Pacino afraid of charges of anti-Semitism if Shylock's vengefulness was played to the hilt? |
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