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Significados de poetic justice em inglês

An outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)

Uso de poetic justice em inglês
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But it does have a certain element of poetic justice, doesn't it?
A touch of death
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After all, there is a deal of poetic justice in the world.
Dawn
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There is in their arrangement no attempt at symmetry, nor poetic justice.
Confessions and Criticisms
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It's perfect, poetic justice served, a brilliant finale to a brilliant show.
The Guardian
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Did you ever hear o' sic a thing as poetic justice, Sergeant?
Greyfriars Bobby
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She had the strength, and leaving the swan behind- aformof poetic justice?
Priest
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I'd never been a great one for poetic justice, but this came close.
NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
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That would be poetic justice, and justice is so rare in the world.
Jess
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And there was some sort of poetic justice about telling her the truth.
Faerie Wars
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And it made them worse too-which is what the book calls poetic justice.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
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Somehow the latter seemed fitting, poetic justice for Kealoha and Faalogo.
Spider bones: a novel
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It seemed poetic justice that such a bastion of privilege should stake her.
Report for Murder
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A poetic justice visits him with misery, for he still cares for Alice.
The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
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It would, therefore, be a measure of poetic justice if now--
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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As a Morphate protecting his rights to his mate, it was poetic justice.
Nocturnal
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Only a kind of ambiguous poetic justice appears to be visited on those responsible.
The Guardian
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