Word: vendetta
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...writer, actor and broadcaster. His films include Wilde, Gosford Park, V for Vendetta and, most recently, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, in which he plays the Cheshire Cat. He has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography as well as plays, screenplays and TV series...
...begin to see here why his bosses wonder how quick-draw, hair-trigger Givens manages to have so many "justified" shootings and whether he isn't acting out some sort of vendetta psychodrama - or a death wish. Nor are they the first to wonder about him. As his ex-wife says after he politely pops by for what's meant to be a friendly chat (by way of breaking into her house in the middle of the night), "You're the angriest man I have ever known." His sartorial quirks mark him not just as a throwback...
Bordry denies the existence of a vendetta. He says it was American cycling officials and international authorities who decided to ban Landis and uphold the stripping of his 2006 Tour title for cheating. "That decision was made without any ambiguity long ago," Bordry says. "This is a legal inquiry into the violation of French...
...Some of these follies stemmed from the inevitable glitches of a new Administration settling in ... Some of them resulted from sheer naiveté, much from the puerile vendetta Mr. Obama waged against the previous Administration's record, a bad rhetorical habit that fogged the brains of people who should know better...
...parliamentarian was the main advocate for censure, said during the hearing that the motion to censure—an expression of the Council’s formal disapproval of a member’s actions that carries no other consequences—was not a personal vendetta against McLeod but rather a “simple question” of upholding the rules...