On the flip side, in classic "Veep" style, multiple characters get comeuppances they don't deserve.
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By Tuesday, the Aquarius affair had erupted into full-blown sniping among allies, as four European governments traded mutual recriminations, reproaches and comeuppances.
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But he is not for everyone — the cruel comeuppances and the villainous adults that populate his books have been a turnoff for some parents.
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Fatally, though, you still don't care whether he survives or dies; comeuppances are handed out, as seems only fair, but there's nothing especially gratifying in the allocation of justice.
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" The Coconuts, as choreographed by Mr. Darnell's wife at the time, Adriana Kaegi, often sang sassy comeuppances to Kid Creole's boasts; in one song they mocked him as "Mr. Softee.
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There were comeuppances: Richard Horne's painful death, Chantal and Hutch's execution not for being hired killers (the bumbling Las Vegas FBI didn't even seem to notice their stakeout) but for being a couple of assholes.
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In a fitting end to a year of comeuppances, Roy Moore, who is accused of harassment and assault by several women, including one who was 14 at the time, became the first Republican to be defeated in a Senate race in Alabama since 1992.
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When the Bosnian-born writer Aleksandar Hemon recalls the childhood bullies who tormented him and his friends on the streets of 1970s Sarajevo, he remembers their comeuppances too — and how the sweet satisfaction of vengeance, the exhilaration of victory, curdled into something more grubby and less glorious.
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He claimed to have been a Desert Rat and constantly complains about the unruly behaviour of Hedge's class 5C. He is fiercely loyal (to the point of sycophancy) to the headmaster but a thorn in the side of the rest of the staff. His various comeuppances provide much of the ongoing humour of the sitcom.
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Maria gave Ben a divorce so he could marry Meg and met a new man, Ross English. Maria also adopted Benjy, the little boy she had regarded as her own, and she and Ben planned to raise him together. The 'baddies' all got their comeuppances. Derek was accidentally shot and killed by Ben; his accomplice Tess went to jail, as did Gregory Richards (Francesca's real killer).
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