| What a strange ultimatum that is, at once romantic in the drama of its request and fiercely anti-romantic in the spitefulness of its threat. |
| I have never seen him descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night. |
| Destabilized, he wanders through a viscous reality that fills him with anger and spitefulness. |
| Both leaders became prime ministers of this land, as a testimony to their immaturity and spitefulness. |
| I have never seen O'Brien descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night. |
| This first whip of the gale seemed to have the spitefulness of disappointed rage. |
