wrathful

A few scenes later, when Aang demands to be released so he can save the Northern Water Tribe, Bumi becomes wrathful.

That 1991 platform worried both Washington and many of the island’s voters, who then and now, have shunned any move toward formal independence, fearing a wrathful reaction from Beijing.

But Paige’s tragedy is that, for all her reforming zeal, she’s too wrathful to write the future.

When the journey of my life has reached its end, … may the peaceful and wrathful buddhas send out the power of their compassion and clear away the darkness of ignorance.

This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”