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But it takes longer still -- and political comeuppances for both artists -- before they eventually catch up with each other at the right time.

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Chico & Rita Marshall Fine 2012

Favre's public fall doesn't resemble the descents of Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, holier-than-thou icons whose comeuppances had more to do with their self-righteousness and hypocrisy than their sins.

Brett Favre, sexty beast Stephen Rodrick 2010

But it takes longer still -- and political comeuppances for both artists -- before they eventually catch up with each other at the right time.

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Chico & Rita Marshall Fine 2012

But it takes longer still -- and political comeuppances for both artists -- before they eventually catch up with each other at the right time.

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Chico & Rita Marshall Fine 2012

Mr. Pollock, in contrast, creates an unmonitored killing field where he can use evil as a plaything, seemingly braced by a belief in little more than sardonic jokes and entertaining comeuppances.

The Comic-Grotesque Goes North Sam Sacks 2011

But this is only the most recent in a line of comeuppances -- our man earns comeuppance the way other people earn heaven -- and it hasn't quite come yet.

Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

But this is only the most recent in a line of comeuppances -- our man earns comeuppance the way other people earn heaven -- and it hasn't quite come yet.

Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

As with all fictional comeuppances of that sort - and, indeed, Grace Adams-Short's loudly booed exit from Big Brother 7 - it's never quite enough, and leaves one vengefully wanting more.

Archive 2009-05-01 juliette 2009

As with all fictional comeuppances of that sort - and, indeed, Grace Adams-Short's loudly booed exit from Big Brother 7 - it's never quite enough, and leaves one vengefully wanting more.

The Apprentice : This Time It's Personal juliette 2009

His shallowness speaks depths, and, in the end, the comeuppances his character suffers more or less redeem his sins -- which are not inconsiderable.

Coast To Coast 2008