| Before that he'd been an actor, often on radio, playing gangsters who got a violent comeuppance. |
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| By the time Delilah weaseled the secret of his strength out of him, Samson seemed ripe for a rude comeuppance. |
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| I love hissing the villainess as she works her evil wiles and cheering when she gets her eventual comeuppance. |
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| Some were probably hoping the students would get their comeuppance, but death was more than they deserved. |
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| Because the stories were true, the comeuppance of criminals rang even truer. |
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| It's not much of a comeuppance for a 65-year-old ex-CEO who never has to work again anyway. |
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| It's rare that an actor can not only deserve his comeuppance but maintain your sympathy while getting it. |
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| Daffy scares everyone with his pranking, but he gets his comeuppance when Granny and the kiddos give him a taste of his own medicine. |
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| So one can say he tried to lie his way to fame and fortune, and got a much-deserved comeuppance. |
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| However, it seems that the political comeuppance is always greener on the other side of the Atlantic. |
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| The students expect the cheating student to get her comeuppance but nothing happens. |
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| By any reasonable moral reckoning he deserves all the comeuppance of his bad faith. |
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| Rather than booing, fans recall it was more a wall of silence that greeted his efforts, but they would get their comeuppance soon enough. |
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| I kept turning the pages, anticipating the comeuppance that he so richly deserved. |
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| Thus far, it is only in the executive suite and in the stock market that society has witnessed a comeuppance. |
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| What's more, sexual outlaws must always get their comeuppance by the final reel. |
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| These fine visitors, I thought, were in for what I can only describe as a culinary comeuppance. |
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| Among the more baffling parts of this showdown is why Madam Secretary would have invited such a comeuppance in the first place. |
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| I kept thinking that the last pages must be missing, the ones with the comeuppance, but there's none. |
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| Cosmic comeuppance isn't supposed to count for much in football. |
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| After all, the comeuppance of the Big Bad is the good part of any horror story. |
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| They get their comeuppance because they refuse to work together and are selfish people who cannot follow directions. |
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| For some this is just a welcome comeuppance for another of that particular breed of multimillionaire who loves to lecture the world on poverty. |
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| The VOC went bankrupt. The demise of the VOC was not just a pleasing comeuppance. |
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| The young Patti Smith, Freddy Mercury, François Mitterrand and Michel Sardou all get their comeuppance on this album? |
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| Democratic pundits had spent hours licking their wounds vowing comeuppance. |
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| I guess this is her comeuppance, though she'll never even know it. |
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| They get their comeuppance in the end in satisfyingly brutal fashion. |
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| But Jimmy Grimble smells like a sweet and innocuous film from the get-go, thus we know someone's going to get their comeuppance, and it isn't dear little Jimmy. |
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| In the meantime pray that diddy Darren Day gets his comeuppance. |
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| It would be nice to think that meeting this ditzy predator is a fitting comeuppance for Edwards. |
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| It makes me happy to see corporate slimeballs get their comeuppance. |
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| Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance. |
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| Sooner or later, though, such hubris must receive its grim comeuppance. |
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| The Yankees got their comeuppance in Milwaukee when the Braves piled up a record score for the first inning of a World Series game. |
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| So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her. |
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| Most characters like Stelfox have some comeuppance or some repentance but he is willing to go darker than anyone else, is extremely twisted, unrelenting and unremorseful right to the very end. |
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| Ostentatiously grooming his mustache and eyebrows while peering into a hand-held mirror, he is the ultimate braggart and prevaricator, itching for a comeuppance. |
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| Our national comeuppance is surely at hand. |
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| Is this the final cosmic comeuppance for the Cloud City double cross? |
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| But the opportunities for revenge were everywhere and the splasher got his comeuppance. |
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| Eliza Carthy led her deft ensemble through a mariachi-flavoured ode about a lecherous sleazebag who gets his comeuppance thanks to a pair of French hitchhikers. |
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| However, like a true fable for the meme age, In Touch got its comeuppance when it was discovered that its Jenner masterpiece was actually a doctored image of Dynasty actor Stephanie Beacham. |
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| In darker psyches, the thought lurked: was the pandemic some sort of cosmic comeuppance for our collective swinishness, a funk for our profligate times? |
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| The Fromm family eventually did get their comeuppance, however belatedly. |
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| It even has a comeuppance ending, and the bad guy is killed. |
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| I have put this matter in the hands of the police, so hopefully this nasty piece of work will get his comeuppance. |
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| It was a joy to see that even one of the world's great lotharios got his comeuppance now and again. |
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| However, when two coppers apprehend Jamie, it looks as if this nasty piece of work is finally going to get his comeuppance. |
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| After arriving in Hollywood and giving a deserved comeuppance to a backstabber, he realizes that Tinsel Town is not the place he thought, and hoped, it would be. |
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| One of these days, he'll get his comeuppance for treating people so arrogantly. |
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