wrathful

For many Westerners with a Biblical upbringing, the term wrathful deity carries the connotation of an almighty being with righteous vengeful anger.

Making Sense of Tantra ��� 5 Tantric Imagery 2002

For many Westerners with a Biblical upbringing, the term wrathful deity carries the connotation of an almighty being with righteous vengeful anger.

Kalachakra, Tantra, and Their Relation with World Peace 2002

I turned my back to the mirror and dressed in wrathful irritation and my yesterday's linen.

The Window at the White Cat 1910

The herukas, also called the wrathful deities, are expressions of buddha-consciousness and buddha-compassion, but under a terrible aspect.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

The herukas, also called the wrathful deities, are expressions of buddha-consciousness and buddha-compassion, but under a terrible aspect.

Blood-Drinking Buddhas and Wrathful Compassion 2005

For my spirit truly is wrathful, that is in my breast; and if I among men would make boast, with gladness, with game, with goodly words, my spirit would wrath himself, and become still, and deprive me of my sense, and my wise words fore-close, then were I dumb of every sentence.

Roman de Brut. English Layamon

But neither this nor the wrathful, meaning glances which his cunning mother bent upon him served to curb him.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

Played with a kind of wrathful quietude by the exquisite Eric Bana,

comicbookbin.com 2009

-- and he says this, too, with a kind of wrathful glee.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

She tossed her head and compressed her lips, and Shunk Wilson's wrathful and suspicious gaze passed on and rested on Breck.

THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK 2010