Wrath in example sentence

I'm reminded of the famous story retold by W. Somerset Maugham, "Appointment in Samarra", where a man, upon bumping into Death in the streets of Baghdad, flees to Samarra to avoid his wrath, but instead runs into Death who is waiting for him in Samarra, and whose anger at the jostling in Baghdad is revealed to have been mere surprise, as he had been expecting to see the man in Samarra later in the day.

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We've all experienced the wrath of unhappy gut microbes at one point or another, perhaps food poisoning or tainted water.

So the understanding of this Great Recession was that this was completely surprising, this came out of the blue, this was like the wrath of the gods.

And if you're like me, at some point in your educational career, you were asked to read a book called "The Grapes of Wrath."

When we look at the demographic shifts of people coming from the west, it appears that what we're seeing now is the wrath of grapes.

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