It's a comically repulsive scene, devoid of any moral comeuppance.
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They are, to their supporters, the comeuppance smug elites deserve.
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Consider the comeuppance that awaited that same fable's haughty hare.
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This a big comeuppance for the company and the economy.
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In the movie's final act, the cretin gets his comeuppance.
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At the end of the movie, there's no moral comeuppance.
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Essentially, Shkreli's comeuppance might come because he deceived fellow rich people.
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And so there was no comeuppance; there were no just deserts.
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And every one of those cunts is getting their comeuppance now.
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We do not root for Barry; we root for his comeuppance.
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I'm with you; I too crave some form of political comeuppance.
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The phone-hacking scandal in 2011 was a comeuppance of sorts.
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When asked where he lived, Mr Bashir seemed amused by his comeuppance.
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Most gruesome: Meryn Trant meets his comeuppance at Arya's hands in Braavos.
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Tyrion and Sansa's conversation had its moments thanks to Sansa's sassy comeuppance.
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Isn't it more fulfilling to see a micro-manager get their comeuppance?
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Starrcade was supposed to be the night the nWo got their comeuppance.
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I suspected that there was going to be some kind of comeuppance.
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Elites have been ripping off ordinary Americans and will get their comeuppance.
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Maybe that's why, unlike most Mean Girls, Courtney never quite gets her comeuppance.
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In Season 7, the destructive practices of patriarchy are finally getting a comeuppance.
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Yet far from being hounded, he has in fact faced remarkably little comeuppance.
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All together, it's the ultimate comeuppance for the most marginalized woman in Carbon.
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It's wonderful to see a bitchy woman like Bette Davis get her comeuppance.
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But so brutal a comeuppance cannot be met by more of the same.
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Many Indians are toasting Mr Modi for at last giving them their comeuppance.
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Its target widens from abusers to enablers (complicit women get their comeuppance, too).
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The inevitable comeuppance happens quickly and then takes its precious time to leave.
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The only logical explanation is that the Cardinals were cheating and got their comeuppance.
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Some see this as deserved comeuppance for a politicised decision to oppose the merger.
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Some conservative figures are happy to see a foreign-born upstart get his comeuppance.
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Comedians make jokes at each other's expense, and overly confident celebrities get their comeuppance.
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Escobar got his comeuppance in the end, and the murder rate in Colombia dropped.
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The next 48 hours will provide, if not clarity, then some measure of comeuppance.
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"I think there's going to be a real political comeuppance," Mr. Cuomo said Monday.
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And so now come the calls for her comeuppance, which have been growing louder.
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"So it has a lot of people cheering for them to get their comeuppance."
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And some of his colleagues are already preparing the post-election woodshed for his comeuppance.
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The left promised the puppet of Vladimir Putin would get his comeuppance in due time.
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Because if God existed then surely by now he would have got some horrible comeuppance.
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For Americans angered by drugmakers' role in the opioid crisis, that may seem a fitting comeuppance.
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Now all self-proclaimed experts have a chance to prove their mettle or meet their comeuppance.
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Surely it's an equalizer, or at least some sort of welcome comeuppance for the physically disadvantaged.
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Though his marriage is over, there is no harsh comeuppance upon his return to New York.
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That's what he thought of them, the court of international justice and his final criminal comeuppance.
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But the villain's comeuppance seems like an afterthought rather than the cathartic moment it should be.
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Those anti-establishment Trump voters may even relish a shutdown as a fitting comeuppance for Washington.
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He had considered physically harming Walter, roughing him up as comeuppance for what he had done.
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A Hawaii man got his comeuppance for sending more than 100 mean texts to his ex-girlfriend.
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Winter Tide bridges the gap between honoring a truly great shared world, and delivering an ironic comeuppance.
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They are the "Comeuppance Caucus" -- and there's talk of punishing them by opposing the assistance they need.
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John Lithgow plays Ailes perfectly as an avaricious and ruthless fearmonger who gets the comeuppance he deserves.
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We broke down what you need to know about Kelly's comeuppance, his past, and what's still unfolding.
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Yeah. I moved around a lot, though, and I think that's part of my comeuppance as a musician.
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So because of that, we might feel like these people got their comeuppance for falling for the scam.
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It could be a classic comeuppance tale, but something about this public dispute is both manipulative and retrograde.
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For all those matters on which he vociferously dissented in the past four years, comeuppance has been quick.
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Throughout the book, Carton takes numbers and names, remembers slights, and delights in the comeuppance of his detractors.
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Things inevitably go south when some corporate meddlers come to push her buttons, and get their swift comeuppance.
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" But, he added of the GOP, "I think they're going to get their comeuppance in a few weeks.
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But before such "heated" bouts of lunar comeuppance, Huppert takes the "clueless white lady" trope to hilarious extremes.
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For an executive long lionized in business circles and celebrated by employees, the arrest was a shocking comeuppance.
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Trump needed a comeuppance, and the decisive swing of the House into the Democratic column was precisely that.
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Although Miranda's crime turns out to be an instance of poetic justice, Adam has no taste for comeuppance.
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Unlike her peers — the Heddas, the Clytemnestras, the Lady Macbeths — Regina is a woman whose comeuppance never comes.
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The satisfying comeuppance of William/the Man in Black is merely the first fallen rock in the landslide.
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Now the end of the year has brought a watershed of cads getting their comeuppance for sexual misbehavior.
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In others, they are instruments of divine comeuppance, like the boulder of Sisyphus or the mark of Cain.
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But I do think the show may be setting us up for June to get some sort of comeuppance.
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The action unfolds in a series of brief chapters that are smothered with promises of the kingpin's eventual comeuppance.
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Instead of unsuspecting people murdered in their houses, the would-be murderers get their comeuppance, in cartoonishly violent fashion.
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The Untethering is the surface world's comeuppance for failing, for generations, to see the suffering under their own feet.
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That might seem like a satisfying comeuppance for the imperious Valley, but it's not something to be smug about.
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" But he added: "It's possible to think of the shortcomings of 'Black Mass' as fitting comeuppance for Mr. Bulger.
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Until Sonny gets his inevitable comeuppance, he commits multiple acts of violence against women and girls, including Cassie's daughter.
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The publicity for the episode emphasized that Ms. Barr wanted her character to get a "comeuppance" for her prejudice.
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This is not just about Facebook's comeuppance after user data was mishandled and used by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
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In short, everything horrible that could possibly happen to BoJack — the comeuppance he so deeply feared — comes to pass.
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Everyone already knows that the international superrich play by different rules; catching them in action made for thrilling comeuppance.
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Aside from comeuppance for her cruelty, it'd serve as proof that Tyrion was, in fact, a true Lannister after all.
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The upstart Obama may have had apparent advantages, but New Hampshire voters gave him his comeuppance ... and Clinton new life.
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That could very well change, but the political consensus for a big tech comeuppance simply doesn't exist at the moment.
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Wednesday's sentencing felt like the end of a Shakespeare play: the rapid rise, the precipitous fall, and the ultimate comeuppance.
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Even Frank's attempt to talk his way out of that comeuppance during his meeting with Tom Hammerschmidt proves remarkably ineffective.
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Which is pretty sad for anyone, liberal or conservative, who thinks this miserable Congress should get some comeuppance next year.
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So even when he took over from Mario as the league's best player, we loved seeing him get his comeuppance.
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That means resisting jubilant forecasts that allow modest gains a year from November to be spun as an immodest comeuppance.
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Negan has spies everywhere, so of course he finds out, and the comeuppance hits as hard as would be expected.
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He got his comeuppance upon Snow's resurrection, when the Lord Commander decided to execute the man who had executed him.
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Her comeuppance awaits in the form of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who knows global baloney when she sees it.
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Why should you care if a tequila-pounding, private-jet-flying, weed-smoking, hot-shot "tech" CEO gets his comeuppance?
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Lucy was too beautiful to notice him, the Hat thought, and he was excited by the prospect of his comeuppance.
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Seeing white supremacists get their comeuppance is satisfying in a way we need right now—even though it's not nearly enough.
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Ultimately, Shkreli didn't—legally speaking, anyway—get his comeuppance for any of the things that made people hate him so much.
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By ceremoniously and conspicuously obstructing the president's rushed agenda on health care, Trump received what many viewed as a justifiable comeuppance.
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I'll write more about this in the coming weeks, but a best guess is that there will be no immediate comeuppance.
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Alternately manic and maddened, Bill is like a red flag to overly smug husbands, wildly warning of the comeuppance to come.
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If she rides to the rescue in one scene, you can expect that she'll get a comeuppance a few scenes later.
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There is abundant evidence from laboratory studies and from real life that we wish to see immoral agents get their comeuppance.
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Witness the box-office success of movies like "Horrible Bosses" and "Revenge of the Nerds," in which bullies get their comeuppance.
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"Greed" is simply a short wait until the inevitable comeuppance we all wish for is delivered upon its richly deserving subject.
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You wait for the moment of comeuppance or redemption, for the restoration of right and wrong, but no such moment arrives.
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Or do we so value holding people accountable that we are willing to jeopardize our own welfare for a proper comeuppance?
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This story line may give a visceral thrill to anyone who has ever wanted to see Milo Yiannopoulos get some comeuppance.
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In an America primed as the land of alt-milk and Impossible Burgers, perhaps it is time for alt-butter's comeuppance.
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Most pop stars are content to paint themselves as victims, though only if a lesson via comeuppance is on the horizon.
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The president was protected from an embarrassing comeuppance if his own plan had failed while a more migrant-friendly version passed.
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The Patriots in the Belichick-Brady era have been spoiled by clutch kicking, so this comeuppance is greatly appreciated by Pats haters.
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Well, Steve Francis sure does ... and just implied that the perps got some sort of comeuppance ... and it sounds scary as hell.
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"I think he's going to have a further comeuppance from his shareholders to Tesla in trying to bail out SolarCity," George said.
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Some bankers will see it as comeuppance for an executive who tried to fix a system that in their eyes wasn't broken.
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A little comeuppance or closure for DJ. Benicio del Toro's backstabbing hacker character appears without fanfare, and disappears with equally minimal impact.
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The bigger issue is that liberals believe Rubio deserves comeuppance for the way he's conducted himself as a senator and political candidate.
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She finally gets her comeuppance after a mishap with some bleach and a miscommunication between Veronica (Winona Ryder) and J.D. (Christian Slater).
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I mean who doesn't want to see a baddie getting their comeuppance right after they pulled off one of their dirty tricks?
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Some in and around the venture-capital industry think Uber's and WeWork's struggles represent SoftBank's comeuppance — and they're glad to see it.
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But for an administration that regularly acknowledges or dismisses intelligence findings to fit the moment, North Korea has served as a comeuppance.
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In fact, the scene is so otherwise disconnected from the episode that it suggests a chilling, unspoken conclusion: This is Brianna's comeuppance.
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Which means there will also be a villain and a comical sidekick, who steal many scenes on the way to their comeuppance.
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And so there is little belief that SoftBank will change, even if hope springs eternal in some quarters for a SoftBank comeuppance.
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The pig got his comeuppance, onstage and off, but the show didn't pat itself on the back for giving it to him.
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He gets a bloody comeuppance, when the trilogy reaches its chronological conclusion, at the hands of a group of women he wronged.
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There may not even be a moment of comeuppance for those who say one thing one day and its opposite the next.
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There is no lightning bolt of justice and the mean girls aren't punished, nor does Maya get a moment of revenge or comeuppance.
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While it is satisfying to see powerful men receive their comeuppance, no one should believe this marks the beginning of a cultural shift.
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An "ivory kingpin" had received his comeuppance, dealing a powerful blow to those behind a scourge that threatens the survival of Africa's elephants.
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The shows suggested, always, that even if their protagonists didn't get their comeuppance onscreen, it was coming, unless they could change their ways.
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As a result, hundreds of stolen items are allegedly returned to the National Park Service each year by people frightened of Pele's comeuppance.
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That's where we are this season: the inevitable downhill roll when actions beget reactions and the big comeuppance comes for the bad guys.
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There's this tendency to engage in schadenfreude among media circles — particularly from "old media" types who enjoy seeing digital upstarts get their comeuppance.
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Shakita got her comeuppance when she was put in a trash bag with an unhealthy amount of dirty bong water courtesy of Lion.
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It owes its comeuppance largely to the isolated advantages of smartwatches, which Always-on has fittingly rendered slightly more obsolete by its presence.
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But beyond that, the election is being viewed as a comeuppance for a country that lectures others about the superiority of American values.
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Stung by the rhetorical wars of the Bush years, Democrats are wary of protesting the comeuppance of a man like Soleimani too loudly.
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Frances's defensive, deceived self-awareness, her painful errors in emotional judgment, feel so vividly truthful that the reader sympathetically braces for her comeuppance.
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Nussbaum critiques the tendency in literature to "assign a 'comeuppance' " to aging women who fail to display proper levels of resignation and shame.
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Abigail Williams and Daisy Buchanan never get their comeuppance, and Jane never gets to go off (Jerry Springer style) on the Reed family?
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It's a perfect storm of scorn, featuring rich millennials, bad investments, and marketing schemes gone haywire in a kind of international tourist comeuppance.
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The idea of sex machines as technological comeuppance for women who dared declare their liberation has grown alongside the boom in misogynist online media.
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Bernard's tragedy is his comeuppance; he is no more in control of his story than the Hosts he's engineered are in control of theirs.
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But I argue in the book that they were hoodwinked by this system of financialization and that in 2008 we all got our comeuppance.
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Likewise, Conner may be a star, but Samberg plays him with such adorable vulnerability that his cosmic comeuppance is both unsurprising and slightly depressing.
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In other hands, this material might have been the makings of a grand farce in which our callous, pompous protagonist gets his delicious comeuppance.
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If Mr. Manafort most feared the spy's comeuppance, he wouldn't have agreed to cooperate, and earn a much reduced sentence, in the first place.
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So were a sense of moral gravity, a righteous tone, apocalyptic thoughts, and a delight in the rich and powerful receiving their just comeuppance.
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As opposed to Clean's Emily Wang, Diane de Monx's comeuppance (and perhaps her salvation?) arrives when she is finally—and quite literally—tied down.
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Arya's killing of Walder Frey is of course satisfying — as with Ramsay, one of the series' most cruel and evil characters has gotten his comeuppance.
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But there's also a backlash trend emerging from the president's verbal abuse that could be considered a befitting comeuppance for his crimes against common decency.
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The undisputed modern master of taunting, Roy Jones Jr., got his comeuppance when he faced Joe Calzaghe at the tail end of his illustrious career.
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"Black Museum" is most enjoyable as a string of timeless "what-if" scenarios, embedded in a frame story where Haynes gets his long-overdue comeuppance.
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He believes Fairstein -- who became a successful author of mysteries and children's books -- is facing her comeuppance right now, which he takes no issue with.
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In other Asian markets, most recently in Taiwan and South Korea, Uber got its comeuppance in part for posing a threat to local cab companies.
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Conservative politicians and media personalities are stuck in a double bind now, where they are too afraid of comeuppance to tell their audience the truth.
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Their walkout was widely celebrated as a comeuppance for a regional body established by leftists hellbent on swatting the United States away from Latin America.
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A Bannon-led right-wing backlash against Mr. Trump, who unleashed the worst impulses of nationalists in service to himself, would be a fitting comeuppance.
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Then, watch the trailer for the third and final season of "Bloodline" on Netflix, which will perhaps see the Rayburns get their comeuppance or release.
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For a moment, it seemed the president would finally get his comeuppance here — a definitive and undeniable repudiation of his monstrous and unpopular pet project.
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Special Agent Dale Cooper's evil doppelgänger — a sadistic inversion of everything fans loved about the character — got a karmic comeuppance, shot by one of his underlings.
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While hijinx, hilarity, and eventually romance ensue, does the gender switch make the reality of the plot – kidnapping, Stockholm syndrome, and class comeuppance – any less creepy?
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Roger Goodell received some minor comeuppance, and that can't be a bad thing for the morale of football fans, even ones inclined to hate the Patriots.
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Instead of rebuking her philandering politician husband Peter Florrick, this time she was getting her comeuppance from her law partner and once-again ally, Diane Lockhart.
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Those who come to bury Steve Bannon and bask in his comeuppance should take note: the populist conservative movement they hate isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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We should all root for a comeuppance for those investors, who have helped to debase the entrepreneurial system that is so important to the global economy.
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But it might just show that a certain kind of powerful liberal creep only gets his comeuppance when he's weakened or old or in the grave.
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Call it comeuppance for every time a white actor played a person of color, a long-held phenomenon in Hollywood that continues to this very day.
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"It's true he's getting his comeuppance, but I don't want to create an equivalence," said Jeffrey Prescott, a former national security aide in the Obama administration.
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Republican lawmakers were all but gleeful on Wednesday at Mr. Bannon's comeuppance, ridiculing him for supporting the rare Republican who could lose an Alabama Senate race.
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Pick your favorite art historical depiction of Cupid getting his comeuppance — Pierre Mignard's is ours, hands down — and keep that image in your mind until May.
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Yesterday, the "Butcher of Bosnia" got his comeuppance when a special U.N. court in the Hague sentenced him to 40 years in prison for the Srebrenica massacre.
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The prophecy also sets up the comeuppance for Jaime to potentially kill her instead, which would have fit with his arc of realizing she's a terrible person.
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Its initial popularity was based on the idea that the greedy rich, with their ill-gotten "black money" stored in stacks of banknotes, will get their comeuppance.
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And for Mr Najib, who was accused by America's Department of Justice of personally pocketing $681m looted from a Malaysian government agency, it is a welcome comeuppance.
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Yes, Nancy, whose thirst for power leaves actual bodies in her wake, gets her comeuppance in the end, but she never feels like an all-out villain.
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Sports are entertainment and the best entertainment products usually come with a villain you can't wait to see get their comeuppance at the end of the story.
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He finally did, but turned the spectacle of his comeuppance, in September 2016, into a marketing event for his new hotel and a jibe at Hillary Clinton.
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What's powerful about "In a Poem Unlimited" isn't its insight into Remy's own psyche, or the moment, in a given story, when a bad man faces comeuppance.
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And within this capitalist system, rich and powerful people who overplay their hands get their comeuppance all the time, losing their jobs, their fortunes and their reputations.
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Griffin, Georgia (CNN)Tyrone Coggins had just learned his brother's killers, after skirting comeuppance for 35 years, would almost certainly remain in prison for a long time.
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Lurking in the background is that Rollins betrayed Reigns and Ambrose, his former stablemates in the Shield, nearly two years ago and never got his proper comeuppance.
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He's after something larger about the unintended consequences of capitalism on both individuals and societies: meant to be a cure-all, it is too often a comeuppance.
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But critics who have chafed at what they considered the president's shortsighted boasting for the past year saw Monday's meltdown as overdue comeuppance and eagerly piled on.
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Ghosn was brought in to shake up a fusty corporate culture and engineered an incredible turnaround, but his success and grandstanding sowed the seeds of his comeuppance.
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The Joint List's recommendation was a striking act of comeuppance for Mr. Netanyahu, who for years had rallied his right-wing supporters by inflaming anti-Arab sentiments.
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On this front, mob movies still satisfy us because (spoiler alert) the truly evil people always get their comeuppance in the form of either death or incarceration.
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Molly experiences a mild comeuppance regarding her own superiority complex, but it rests on the assumption that college acceptance is a pure meritocracy, and that she's misjudged everyone.
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The Office kept a light touch with Brent, switching away to other plots when his professed ignorance got too cloying, or delivering comeuppance when he strayed too far.
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Looking back on the history of volcanic internet businesses, it's easy to say that a man with an ego like Dotcom's would eventually have suffered a painful comeuppance.
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"Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash", his third novel, sees the author reining in the surrealism to deliver a pulpy, visceral tale of sex, violence and comeuppance.
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I'm working on a ballet set to Chino Amobi's "Airport Music for Black Folk," debuting my new opera "Comeuppance" at Signal Gallery, and finishing my MFA at Bard!
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The fantasy in most of our imaginations (and Hollywood's: See "Heathers" or "Mean Girls") is that this gang gets its comeuppance once it's disgorged into the real world.
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They treat their offices and their responsibilities to the voters cavalierly and deserve the scorn of ordinary people, and the hope that they get the comeuppance they deserve.
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She has already had her comeuppance, but where would you put the odds of Priebus fatally displeasing Trump over the next couple of weeks—two hundred to one?
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Again and again, these women are depicted as shallow, greedy, and unprofessional — and then the narrative shames them for it, often serving them a decisive moment of comeuppance.
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In a delicious turn of events at this week's presidential debate, Donald Trump received his comeuppance over a four-year-old tweet in which he denounced climate change.
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When someone's social capital is artificially and maliciously inflated, it's satisfying because we see that everyone who participates in the nature of late capitalism gets a degree of comeuppance.
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But apparently no one is going to talk about the fact that Jax got his comeuppance while wearing a Taco Bell sweatshirt, backwards, over a white collared shirt. Okay.
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While it's been clear for some time that MoviePass's business model was seemingly not sustainable, in the past few days it looked like its fiscal comeuppance had finally come.
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That said, there's a great deal of speculation in the automotive press these days about Telsa's impending comeuppance as the established luxury automakers begin shipping their own electric vehicles.
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It's less the story of supernatural events than it is of a skeptic's comeuppance, and maybe that's why "creepy in parts" never quite meshes into a truly scary whole.
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Bullying is not buying you drinks and putting you in a costume for a league-wide traditional day of comeuppance, when ten other rookies are doing it with you.
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Ric Flair would tour, narrowly escaping his comeuppance after shit-talking the hero of the month repeatedly, with the pure hatred the audience felt towards him buoying ticket sales.
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If Byron's comeuppance might seem to fall a bit short, especially in the face of the #MeToo movement, Virginia's struggle to access her voice and her agency does not.
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The book affirms that there's salvation to be had in connection, no matter how gnarly, and that includes a karmic comeuppance involving 52 precariously perched buckets of human waste.
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After a slog through depression and hallucination, a comeuppance and a love story, Jack's narrative arc is drawing to a close, creator and show runner Genndy Tartakovsky tells Creators.
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If real life was a rom-com, a notorious love rat would get his comeuppance, and the film's final scenes would show his aggrieved exes becoming the best of friends.
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It's not as existential a problem as the toxic corporate culture and subsequent comeuppance that led to those departures in the first place, but good to score some small victories.
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But sometimes, some comeuppance happens to those attention-seeking trolls of the world, and you can't help but bust out some marshmallows and make s'mores off of their trash fire.
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So if you were disappointed with how Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended, maybe you'll prefer the How It Should Have Ended alternate finale featuring Kylo Ren getting his comeuppance.
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Yet for all the anger at courts we will see from liberals in the coming years, a generation of conservative judicial opinions will strike many conservatives as a just comeuppance.
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The segment is a bit of a comeuppance fantasy, as Colbert mocks Lochte in a way that everyone who's embarrassed by this American merman's behavior wishes they could, but can't.
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After the "previously on" recap reminded viewers that Arya slit Walder Frey's throat last season as comeuppance for the Red Wedding massacre, "Dragonstone" goes for a not-so-subtle feint.
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She's not perfect, either, but it seems significant that, in the end, Fraz receives a kind of comeuppance while Tovah crawls out of the dogpile with a bit of hope.
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Everyone sort of gets their comeuppance at the end of Goodfellas, but it took until The Irishman for the glamour of Goodfellas to get balanced out with something more reflective.
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So do not be too surprised that today at the board meeting, instead of a comeuppance for Kalanick, what is more likely to happen is a split-the-baby solution.
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He got a comeuppance of sorts when a 2009 blackmail threat forced him to pre-emptively admit he'd cheated on his wife with more than one of the show's staffers.
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On top of being a supremely satisfying comeuppance, Krakow's defeat at the poker table is a good example of how Season 2 is playing with different ways of exercising power.
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Yes, they're probably each a billionaire: The Winklevoss twins are largely known to the public — thanks to "The Social Network" — as haughty, naïve aristocrats given their comeuppance by Mark Zuckerberg.
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It's a balancing act, but both aspects ultimately pay off when The Room is pilloried — giving Wiseau the comeuppance he so richly deserves — and then embraced as a comedic cult classic.
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People are letting their assumptions about what ought to happen — or just their desire to see Trump get his comeuppance — get in the way of looking at what's actually going on.
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The drop-off can even be satisfying, if you believe he deserves some kind of karmic comeuppance for stealing Grammys out from under Kendrick Lamar and benefiting from listeners' casual racism.
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Except it's hard to rejoice when this comeuppance is almost certainly rooted in insecurity and the desire we have -- as humans, and perhaps especially as women -- to keep one another down.
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Two-thirds are under 30, many are frustrated by high unemployment, and some may take a certain satisfaction at even an arbitrary comeuppance for so many of the rich and powerful.
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An animatronic owl serves as host, taking theatergoers to Africa for a drum-inflected version of "The Princess and the Pea" and to China for the comeuppance of that foolish emperor.
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As a bonus, the series offered a provocative exploration of America's racist past and present, with the white-supremacist group that sought to harness Dr. Manhattan's power receiving its bloody comeuppance.
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Weinstein was fired from his own company on October 8, and, perhaps emboldened by the quick comeuppance, a veritable deluge of women has emerged to share horrifying stories about the disgraced mogul.
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Nearly two years after the #MeToo movement entered its current phase, the conversation around sexual misconduct in this country continues to focus on powerful men and their comeuppance and chances at redemption.
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Even if Reggie wasn't unexpectedly involved in Riverdale's recent serial killer spree, there is no way Alice wouldn't make sure the football player-slash-drug dealer didn't get his much-speechified comeuppance.
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The film preserves some of the moral comeuppance Susan faced in the novella, while simultaneously delighting in the novella's secret sense of glee at how she blows apart the rules of propriety.
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Seeing Walder Frey get his comeuppance was unbelievably fulfilling, though, and it helped to ease the pain of just losing Margaery, so I can't complain too much about Arya's rapid Westeros return.
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What she will learn in this institution is that it's glacial to begin with, and therefore no matter how far you rise, that's just how far you will ultimately get your comeuppance.
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That's not to say that these kingpins didn't get a fair comeuppance or that the interests of investigators and filmmakers trump the public's right to see criminals brought to (hopefully fair) justice.
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It seems that she might finally get her comeuppance for less-than-professional work behavior — when she pulls what might be the least profesh move ever (depending on your field, of course).
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Redlener said that all three incidents represent the comeuppance for long standing neglect of American infrastructure — which in its most recent rating the American Society of Civil Engineers earned a D-plus.
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Because Young is a satirist, this authorial pride gets its comeuppance: We learn in a postscript that the author of the book was killed in a populist riot, leaving his manuscript unfinished.
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In a sense, they respectively captured some of the excess of our times in utterly memorable fashion, and the catharsis of watching people who appeared to richly deserve a comeuppance get one.
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It was a stunning rebuke of the Justice Department's recent efforts to spin off a lobbying probe from the Mueller investigation into an equal opportunity comeuppance for a top former Democratic official.
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The film insists that Ali, like Gibson's ad man, receive her comeuppance: She learns to respect her gay assistant (Josh Brener) and to be less selfish in her career and in bed.
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It's been a tough week for de Blasio, who got his comeuppance for trying to establish himself as a Democratic Party kingmaker by being sent on a lonely walk through the Iowan hinterland.
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Such longevity is impossible to achieve without a certain amount of casualties and chafing, and it is little wonder there are those who have embraced the recent speculation as a long-awaited comeuppance.
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I mean, yeah, there's that whole comeuppance-on-a-grand-scale before the hero's journey really begins, but this was not an 11-year-old I wanted to be even kinda close by.
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Money in particular is no hero; between his idiotically literal nickname, his childish destructiveness, and his habit of referring to Rocky as "my bitch," he's a horror movie comeuppance story waiting to happen.
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A better context, as the part of a longer build or a world where the McMahon family still get their comeuppance besides an occasional loss, probably would have made the match sit better.
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But, like seen with Ronda Rousey getting her comeuppance against Holly Holm, the devastating KO loss suffered by Groves saw him earn ridicule by the casual boxing fan over social media and beyond.
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It's natural and, one must admit, tempting to predict a quick comeuppance — and I myself gave in to that temptation, briefly, on that horrible election night, suggesting that a global recession was imminent.
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In the end, it's a fantasy of comeuppance — a bloody, manic one with plenty of weaponry and gore to go around and a determined heroine (or maybe an avenging angel) at its center.
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The aberration of that kind of comeuppance should tell you where the movies' priorities had shifted by the early 1980s: from the rumbling psyches of girls to the sexual amusement of their tormentors.
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Danny McBride's characters have a tendency to learn that lesson the hard way, their arcs traversing a kind of warped hero's journey from cockiness to comeuppance, through chagrin and bodily injury to redemption.
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He was his generation's pre-eminent Baron Ochs in Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier," mixing humor with a distinct tinge of menace in his portrayal of the character, a boorish lecher who gets his comeuppance.
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A man who tweeted saying that "girls over 2150 lbs should never posts pics in a bikini" got his comeuppance on Twitter as women flooded him with body-positive photos of themselves in swimsuits.
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That's at least a small measure of political comeuppance for Clinton over Sanders' previous romps in counties sharing her last name, including Clinton County, Indiana, which he won by 18 points on May 3.
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Brooks is down-to-earth and charismatic in the role, and he plays Don as a believably nice tough guy who's still fatally insecure — more a tragic figure than a creep getting his comeuppance.
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What to Expect: Hard as it is to care about people we haven't seen in two seasons, the return of the Tullys—Edmure and the Blackfish—means this house could get its overdue comeuppance.
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" Ironically enough, Weber is one of eight Texas GOP congressmen who voted against providing much-needed aid to New York and New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy -- a group now being dubbed the "Comeuppance Caucus.
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The conservative network built a reputation for emphasizing its female anchors' bodies over brains (the infamous leg cam; a preference for blondes), a reality even more apparent in the aftermath of Roger Ailes' comeuppance.
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Supporters of such measures as pay for performance might even contend that Mr. Pearson got his comeuppance, since his wealth is now a fraction of what it was, after the plunge in Valeant's shares.
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If WeWork stands as the logical extreme of over-capitalized startups with upside-down economics and reckless governance, its comeuppance appears to have raised suspicion over valuations of aggressive entrants into traditional industries generally.
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"I would say this to Democrats here in the state, I know this is hard but there will be a comeuppance for the Georgia GOP in the 6900 elections," Sarah Riggs Amico told Hill.
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The lavish homes with their walls of windows (actual glass houses!), the fetishized beach, the fantastic stemware: All of it was coded to suggest an environment of privileged people fit for comeuppance and punishment.
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Directed by Adam Shankman, this comedy flips the script on Nancy Meyers's "What Women Want" (2000), in which a Chicago chauvinist (Mel Gibson) gets his comeuppance after gaining the power to hear women's thoughts.
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"The narrative of start-up comeuppance is in the air, but we haven't seen a statistically significant change in food budgets," said Arram Sabeti, the chief executive of ZeroCater, which serves meals to tech companies.
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Its carefully crafted moments of comeuppance are designed to feed a very specific brand of power fantasy, one where violence is justified—even celebrated—by the moral and physical superiority of its square-jawed hero.
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Now, with little reason left to hold his tongue on Republican dysfunction, Obama is instead swinging for the party as a whole, almost a decade's worth of pent-up frustrations emerging for a fiery comeuppance.
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Swift, once a master of petty comeuppance, has typically used her music as a vessel for romantic anguish, in which she could connect with the public imagination by detailing her tortured relationships with unnamed men.
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Whatever the reason, the Glimmerglass production of "Sweeney Todd," Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical of gleeful comeuppance in Victorian England, seems as convinced as Mr. Trump that the world has gone terribly, chaotically wrong.
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When he struggled in the new super-team's first finals appearance, pundits rejoiced that he had gotten a much-deserved comeuppance, and been exposed as a choker unfit to join Mr Jordan in the pantheon.
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"Most of the time we like it when the good guys are rewarded and the bad guys get their comeuppance," says Pat Barclay, a professor at the University of Guelph and the study's co-author.
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Tempting as it is to consider a hail of bugs as some meager form of comeuppance by a symbol of democracy onto a unprecedentedly unpopular administration, the fact remains—the White House is old as hell.
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Antonio García Martínez, an early product manager on the Facebook ads team who wrote about this time there in a book, sees it as comeuppance for inaccurate and overheated comments by journalists about Facebook and privacy.
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And does the totality of his career leave you, the viewer, wishing for him to get his comeuppance in the form of another one-sided beating, or to show that the old guard can soldier on?
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The Good Life is a troubling but darkly amusing archive, a nostalgic retrospective of a ruddier time where willful corruption, widespread fraud, and the unethical irreverence of America's corporate culture had not yet seen its comeuppance.
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Levy also has the best account yet of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco — he's appropriately skeptical of the motives of everyone involved, and lays out in great detail how Facebook sowed the seeds for that particular comeuppance.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "Given their arrogance, pomposity and habitual absurdities, it is hard not to feel a certain satisfaction with the comeuppance that Brexit has delivered to the unaccountable European Union bureaucrats in Brussels.
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What unfolds next is a glorious, probably real series of videos of would-be package thieves getting some glittery, stinky comeuppance, something that can surely make us all feel a bit warmer and cheerier this holiday season.
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On Monday night, Sherman and the 49ers gave Mayfield a similar comeuppance — Sherman picked off Mayfield on his fourth pass attempt of the game, and San Francisco cruised to victory in a game that never felt close.
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They're still the villains of our particular cultural story, and whenever they seem to be experiencing some kind of comeuppance, even one as minor as a change in their go-to garment, it is greeted with joy.
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In a column on Breitbart News, Mr. Kobach suggested that the case was a comeuppance for Democrats and voting-rights advocates who oppose the stringent controls on voting that Republicans have enacted for a decade or more.
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But even as the show hints at a level of resolution I'm not sure I want, it's also spending some time this week with the kind of catharsis I am looking for: shitty men getting their comeuppance.
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I happened to speak midday Tuesday with one of the smartest Republican strategists I know, and he predicted a Republican comeuppance in 2018 so profound that it could alter the party forever or even jeopardize its survival.
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On Sunday night, during Game 5 of the World Series between the juggernaut Houston Astros and the underdog Washington Nationals in the District, President Donald Trump received what for him has been the rarest of things: public comeuppance.
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Also yep.) We're supposed to think the car accident that ruins the hands he uses to perform delicate surgeries (yes, he's a literal doctor) is a comeuppance of sorts, but it's not clear he learns anything from it.
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Tuesday night's series finale revealed the true identity of the Freeform show's latest villain, A.D. Turns out the baddie was Spencer's (Troian Bellisario) secret evil British twin, Alex Drake, who of course got her comeuppance in the end.
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As a result, bullying has long been a rich source of comedy, with even its insults and injuries mined for laughs, all the better to set up that final, triumphant scene in which the bully gets his comeuppance.
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And it has had, some fans believe, cosmic comeuppance for disrupting the natural order of things when, in 2011, Lerner inexplicably asked Alex McLeish, who had just finished coaching the bitter rivals Birmingham City, to come lead Villa.
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There was this person who was rather saintly and victimized, and this second season, you see that maybe she's not so much of a saint and a victim, and she got an interesting comeuppance in a human way.
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Killjoy by Erika Curmudgeon by Reese Dekker and Ellie Sullivan Finesse by Eric, Jose and Parker Monotony by Masa Kawasaki Equinox by Caroline Knight Comeuppance by Cassie and Jason Guffaw by Meghan O'Brien Pry by Mark Chappell Disheartened
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He's joined by Jane Crawford and several pews full of witnesses and Seventh Kavalry goons, but from the moment Keene Jr. strips down to his skivvies and delivers his supervillain speech, it's clear that his comeuppance is nigh.
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But none of that has attracted nearly as much attention as the resident enforcement plan, which has conjured visions of a swift comeuppance for scofflaws idling in bike lanes while also raising alarms about the potential for abuse.
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But where others saw Uber's travails as a symbol of Silicon Valley comeuppance, Khosrowshahi saw something less loaded: a sophisticated tech company that had taken on too much, too quickly, and whose systems groaned under the weight and confusion.
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I won't go into the particulars of their comeuppance, which has been told in lurid detail elsewhere, but ultimately it turned out that the company took too many shortcuts in a highly regulated industry, displeasing regulators and disappointing customers.
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But in addition to those wincing in commiseration or rejoicing at her comeuppance, many critics also jumped on the fact that Wolf is not trained as a historian; the book is from her doctoral work in English at Oxford.
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In this way they tap into a prevailing energy in the zeitgeist, one of comeuppance and redress, and an intention to level the playing field, in their case, making sure the city of Miami is represented well in the rap industry.
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Jojo the pimp also abuses women, but only gets his comeuppance when Ray, while trying to apologize to Chris before the final match, uses his hair-trigger temper and reliance on violence to knock an armed Jojo unconscious with a dumbbell.
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Mendoza is at the center of the story, but in well-structured chapters and harrowing scenes, Carr allows glimpses into the behavior and actions of other characters, ratcheting the tension as crimes are solved and the criminals get their comeuppance.
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The overwhelming sentiment within the Republican Party is that the Obama administration has been too soft on Russia, and that election hacking, if anything, represents comeuppance for his weakness in refusing to take more vigorous measures in Syria or Ukraine.
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This Saturday Megan Hicks will tell "King Thrushbeard," a little-known Brothers Grimm work about a selfish princess's comeuppance, and Navida Stein will offer "Old Woman and the Pumpkin," a sort of "Little Red Riding Hood" in reverse, from India.
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"There is some comeuppance due, and unfortunately I think the coronavirus is that exogenous variable that is a catalyst to take some of these stocks down," the portfolio manager at Independent Solutions Wealth Management told CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Friday.
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And I've come to believe that all these impediments to Quinn's being Quinn — all these markers of unattractiveness — add up, not only, to a picture of a man with reduced personal powers, but also to a kind of moral comeuppance.
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"Although some of the [Death Star II] material would have ended up elsewhere … much of it would have ended up on Endor … More than enough to give those furry cannibalistic [creatures] the comeuppance they deserved," one scientist is quoted as saying.
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Their comeuppance in losing the House of Evangelista's challenge and being read to filth by the show's ex–Wicked Stepmother Elektra was both clearly telegraphed and satisfying, which is a a storyline combination that Pose has perfected through its fantastic first season.
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Guys with secret girlfriends are a big drama generator, not least because one of the pleasures the show provides is watching the Bachelorette figure out which of them are "good guys" and which aren't, and then seeing two-faced players get their comeuppance.
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I desperately want sports to serve them their comeuppance, lovingly catalogue their sins and mistakes, and have one-sided arguments with broadcasters who insist on praising teams and players who I know, in the bottom of my heart, are complete and irredeemable assholes.
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For Democrats who are used to Rove unleashing demagogic attacks on their candidates, notably the character assassination of John Kerry in 2004, it was pure schadenfreude to see Bush's brain get his comeuppance from the very conspiratorial forces the GOP has unleashed.
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Mr. Lind may have only fantasized about mass death as a comeuppance for cultural Marxists, but others have acted on it: In his 1,500-page manifesto, the Norwegian far-rightist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, invoked "cultural Marxism" repeatedly.
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While Knives Out's politics aren't radical, the movie's inversion of a classic trope of the mystery and detective genre — that the stolen property ends up in the rightful hands at the end — presents a satisfying comeuppance: The Thrombeys lose their house and inheritance.
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" After no lost games since November 373, and after the graduations of Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck — the aforementioned top three draft picks — many had this season pegged as comeuppance for Connecticut, and even Auriemma called it, in advance, "a great unknown.
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The incident serves as a sort of karmic comeuppance for the disgusting creation, getting blasted away from the good people on the ground and up into the air, where it's unable to control its own faculties, spraying the sky with some unidentifiable liquid.
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But the point is that The Walking Dead has done a good job of suggesting that maybe "Negan" is just a name the various Saviors use to plant the idea of a terrifying, monstrous figure who does horrible things without receiving comeuppance.
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If Trump's ground operation in New Hampshire isn't significantly superior to the one he had in Iowa, and if Trump supporters are once again less energetic about getting to the polls than about telling pollsters they like him, he could get another comeuppance here.
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The less said about this final film the better, but it at least tosses off a line about Kathryn being a patient in a methadone clinic – and that sounds about right as to Kathryn's trajectory following her comeuppance at the end of the first film.
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Both films spend time unpacking the schadenfreude-fueled glee that exploded across Twitter when the first tweets from desperate Fyre Festival attendees started going viral — everyone who watched the drama unfold, as several people point out, loved seeing rich, spoiled millennials get their comeuppance.
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"If we now are doing the right thing in this country, and we're having a comeuppance and we're holding people accountable — if Al Franken just did the right thing and resigned, it is time for Donald Trump to resign as well," Booker told Vice News December 9.
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The incident serves her inner circle as a house parable showing the perfidy of civil servants (who talked Mr Johnson into the idea), the folly of ill-scrutinised decisions, the danger of informal structures and the comeuppance of those who do not do things Mrs May's way.
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It feels like there was a version of this movie where she flexed way more of her sociopathic Snapchat-obsessed teen demon muscles, or got a little more Sprang Break before her comeuppance, but for whatever reason, Refn and Fanning didn't take the character that far.
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Black Mirror, that at times staggeringly brilliant, very often harrowing narrative window into a future which is a slightly — only slightly — distorted view of our contemporary culture gives us a version of the comeuppance tale in "Black Museum," the last episode in the recently released fourth season.
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And I don't mean those who ruefully accept the idea out of religious allegiance, or whose sense of justice demands that Hitler and Pol Pot get their proper comeuppance, or who think they need the prospect of hell to keep themselves on the straight and narrow.
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The feeling here is that the writer began with a method that acts like a template and so has to see it through, with the result, for example, that Henry James's comeuppance is improbably (and not credibly) similar to that of one of Smith's fortune hunters.
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In looking at these and other indicators, the bears are left holding onto some version of "Everything's so good it's due to turn bad" idea, the notion that high valuations, a long stretch of uncommon calm and widely shared optimism precede some form of comeuppance for contented bulls.
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When Agent 47 comes for these cartoon characters of real-world figures who might survive the real-world conditions that are going to put strains on global supply chains and the viability of our current system of human and resource organization, we can imagine a small moment of comeuppance.
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AND ALL OF THAT IS BUILT UPON A RAPID CREDIT EXPANSION THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A COMEUPPANCE, AND THEY'VE ADMITTED THAT THEY'VE GOT 18.5 TRILLION RNB OF BAD LOANS, WHICH IS, AGAIN, MORE THAN ALL THE EQUITY IN THEIR CHINESE BANKING SYSTEM SULLIVAN: KYLE BASS, HAYMAN CAPITAL.
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He studied classical singing for a while, too, but describes his baritone as having been "too shrimpy" to ever fill a role like Falstaff, based on one of Shakespeare's most irresistible creations: the charismatic glutton who gets his comeuppance for trying to seduce not one but two married women.
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During a recent interview with Howard Stern, Morgan revealed that the Walking Dead cast finished filming on Season 7 last week, and anyone hoping that Negan will get his comeuppance for killing Glenn and Abraham (and countless other victims) at the end of this season should probably adjust their expectations now.
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While I personally disagree (Oberyn's death leads to a more direct comeuppance for Tywin, the show's biggest villain), Game of Thrones was established as a show that, while technically top-tier, existed primarily to inflict cruelties upon its characters and viewers alike, even if those cruelties have never looked better.
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So, yes, while Toronto reels from a devastating loss and America laughs at Toronto for once again screwing up when it matters most, I will just sit here stewing, thinking about that accumulator, and telling myself that a Raptors loss is merely comeuppance for that time Drake cost me $200.
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Ramsay Bolton got his comeuppance, Rickon Stark's short life came to an end, Wun Wun the giant went out in a blaze of glory, Sansa Stark pulled Jon's ass from the fire, House Stark recaptured Winterfell after years in the wilderness: You know all the details about season six's climactic confrontation.
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This dynamic could easily become tiresome to watch, but the personas that Succession's characters flaunt, whether it's Kendall's "business bro" posing or his younger brother Roman's (Kieran Culkin) unrelenting penis-centric humor, have gradually been peeled back, transforming my desire to see these idiots get their comeuppance into genuine emotional investment.
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One of Novey's more direct statements on this concerns Victor's eventual fate: Though Lena continues to feel guilt for her "passive role" in the suffering he's inflicted, his ultimate comeuppance, after a long downward spiral, is related not to his abuse of women, but to a crime he commits against a man.
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" His comeuppance arrives via his neighbor at the table, Celia Cohen, who tells him to "think of poems as trying to get beyond the gates of the rational to a place where everything is happening at once, where the human messes and particulars are tangled with the undergrowth of things in ways that cannot easily be described.
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It had arisen as a term of endearment shared between college fraternity members, but the young cisgender straight white male, long the apple of the culture's eye, had drifted far enough away from the center to become visible, and the somewhat fond and somewhat insolent way the word pointed at him seemed to amount to a comeuppance.
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Trump-themed barbs came from various directions, including a reunion of "9 to 5" stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, who spoke of giving a bigot his comeuppance then and now; and "Veep's" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who dryly suggested an impeachment storyline was jettisoned because the writers feared someone else might beat the HBO comedy to the punch.
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Where Mr. Trump would later appeal to the American white working class, Mr. Netanyahu melded Israeli ultra-Orthodox, secular Russian immigrants and working-class Mizrachi voters, whose forebears lived in the Arab world, into a political base hungry to give the educated, liberal, European-descended Ashkenazim of Tel Aviv their comeuppance, said Ari Shavit, an author and former columnist who has followed Mr. Netanyahu throughout his career.
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Frank Bruni Opinion Columnist Never sated by the amount of attention that he gets and congenitally inclined to cast himself in the center of everything, President Trump tweeted about the most stunning of Tuesday's primary results — New York Representative Joseph Crowley's defeat by a 28-year-old newcomer named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — and suggested that Crowley's comeuppance reflected his insufficient deference and kindness to Trump.
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Dressed halfway between basketball geek and charming cat lady, Corgan begins by hinting that he's made some kind of Making a Murderer-esque docuseries about America but goes on to accuse the government of turning a blind eye to illegal downloading because they're in bed with the tech industry and muse on the current fears of a tech bubble burst as comeuppance for creating clickbait about artists like himself.
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And it certainly doesn't matter that those who were on the ground and involved in that hunt believe that as many as six of their comrades died looking for a man whom our military knew from the start was a deserter (a four-star general confirmed it to me within 48 hours of Bergdahl's desertion, but would not say so publicly—a moral coward who, ironically, got his own comeuppance a few years later).
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That quest gets nudged forward just a bit in Jason Bourne, Damon's first crack at the character in nearly a decade, and a movie that absolutely did not need to be made: After all, Ultimatum wrapped up with our hero as close to the truth as he was ever going to be, having finally gotten some comeuppance against the CIA bureaucrats who turned him into a killing machine—and then plunging into the East River, alive and kicking.
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That shit wouldn't get his comeuppance until season six of the show, when its writers went totally off the rails so carefully laid down by author George R R Martin and took a Transformers: The Movie approach to longstanding fan favorites: wiping them out with the kind of merciless abandon, so often suddenly and without lengthy foreshadowing, that we're more used to seeing dealt to mid-ranking video game NPCs, not heaving-budget, ratings-grossing, awards-gobbling TV productions.
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Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian brand that was, for a brief moment at the end of last year, a poster child for cultural ignorance and the comeuppance that can ensue; that was held up as an example of how a fashion brand can so profoundly mess up that repercussions are felt throughout the world; and that was variously seen as having a reputation "in rags" (Forbes) and being in the midst of a "downfall" (Hypebeast), is quietly, but publicly, on its way back.
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My body is an injury the world can't seem to heal from— you would expect it gone by now, and yet each next day it persists, still implementing its same staunch pain, atrocious, railed against, assumed by the world to be an ingenious comeuppance, a vengeance against it—what did it do what did the world do to warrant my body within it, smarting, to warrant each of our bodies within it, crowding the sites of abuse, assessing ticket prices, asking how much to see the slave house, how much to touch the indented names of the killed, how much to enter the slatted cell and size it, close behind us its wrought door, oh actually that one's free
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