poetic justice in English

noun
1
the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions.
the noise was deafening and it was poetic justice when the amplifiers stalled just before the start

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1. But poetic justice is not real justice.

2. It stands for poetic justice, you under-stand.

3. It was to be a means for poetic justice.

4. The ending of tragedy does not embody "Poetic Justice".

5. 21 It stands for poetic justice, you under-stand.

6. In the real world, poetic justice is not so easily achieved.

7. In doing so she has laid herself low as well. Poetic justice.

8. With poetic justice, the crisis recoiled against Paris and destroyed the franc.

9. And there was a certain poetic justice in the way Yugansk was renationalised.

10. 19 After the way she treated Sam, it's only poetic justice that Dave left her.

11. One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice.

12. Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.

13. And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?

14. He pushed several other runners to get to the front so it was poetic justice when he tripped and fell.

15. That the oldest technology of flight will find a role supporting the latest, fusion propulsion, has a certain poetic justice.

16. 17 If you ask me it's poetic justice. He tried to get you fired, and now he's lost his job himself.

17. For Simpson, though, seeing her hot tower hypothesis verified over the next two decades was surely a kind of poetic justice as well.

18. Moreover, Leo has also succeeded in ruining the invention plan of the 'Crazy Gangster Group' displaying poetic justice and chivalry to the full extent.

19. So far, many scholars use all kinds of theories such as "poetic justice" principle, religion, philosophy, history, myths prototype of the new criticism, etc. to make its interpretation.

20. 15 What poetic justice that Brady has to go to court to plead to be allowed to die, just like his innocent victims pleaded to be allowed to live.

21. The play closes with ample poetic justice and universal jubilee: the villain is cruelly done to death, the orphan recovers his lost property, and Ch'eng Ying receives rewards for his sacrifice.

22. Nearly all of his money had been obtained by dishonest means, so it was thought to be poetic justice when so much of it was lost in the bank robbery.

23. Call it poetic justice, or just sheer bad luck, either way Hobson approached the experience like a scientist and decided to document it, just as he had with the cats, but this time from the inside.

24. Wouldn't it be really great if the proceedings could wind up in a conviction either this Friday, or next Monday? Monday is Presidents Day - what poetic justice, and what a gift for past Presidents, to have the worst President, the twice-impeached President, the Besmircher of their high office, thus repudiated on …