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Definition of nemesis:

  • (noun) (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance
  • (noun) something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"

Sentence Examples:

The play gleams with the pride of learning and a knowledge which learning brings, and with the nemesis that comes after it.

Yet in a very real sense their present tragic situation is the nemesis of the political sins of the Balkan nations themselves.

This has been the result of no inherent necessity, but of that competitive greed whose nemesis is ever to miss the very thing it seeks.

That is the nemesis of Militarism: the Militarist is thrown into a big game which he is too stupid to be able to play successfully.

The one is the danger which besets clever politicians, the other the nemesis which waits on popular preachers.

And when the retreat itself comes, the price will rise even higher, and the nemesis will be both just and terrible.

The nemesis of a career of strenuous Will in large natures is apt to be a sudden sense of the irony of things.

Sublime laws govern above us, between us, full of mystery in the midst of life; one of them in reference to guilt, punishment of guilt, is called nemesis.

When I was a child, it was so strong that I was sat down upon brutally, to so great an extent that I feared to voice my convictions and that fear still clings to me like a nemesis.

Yes, we have all sought an escape in outer ceremony from the nemesis of our shameful deeds.

And the awful nemesis of sin-created blindness is this, that it interprets itself as sight.

It is the Nemesis of those who have all their lives been treated with more respect than they have deserved.

There is about it none of the elevation that accompanies tragedy; there is about it no nemesis, no destiny.

Strange, that she and Don Felipe should have been created to become the nemesis of one another!

The strange nemesis that had pursued them step by step had been permitted to wreck their lives completely.

This false attitude to the eighteenth century had its nemesis in the belief that we were awakened by foreigners to the greatness of Shakespeare.

Nemesis swings in with the precision of an express, and the thud and clatter of the troops jumping to her deck sets up a continuous drumming note of deliverance.

The failure of the men of Greece to avail themselves of the immense potential power, which they always kept latent in their women, was the occasion of a terrible nemesis in the end.

A nemesis of growth sets in, for waste gains upon, overtakes, balances, and threatens to exceed repair.

"The Nemesis of Faith" created a sensation, an excitement and alarm, which surely were extravagant even then and would be impossible now.

His "Nemesis of Faith," which appeared in 1848, was a further criticism of the doctrines which he had abandoned.

Nemesis is one of the grim realities not sufficiently taken into account in the great game of life.

Trent saw in the sick man only his nemesis, the instrument which fate was using to rob him of his liberty.

The danger of an effect becoming tame by repetition he has met by giving to each train of nemesis a flash of irony at some point of its course.

If we examine the point at which the fall begins we are reminded that the nemesis on Richard is different in its type from the others in the play.

Nemesis has just been defined as the artistic aspect of justice; we have in previous studies seen different artistic elements in different types of Nemesis.

The same reasoning applies to the latter half of the play: the fall of Macbeth not only serves as the retribution for his rise, but further contains in itself a crime and its nemesis complete.

Nemesis may be emphasized by repetition and multiplication; in the world in which Richard is plunged there appears to be no event which is not a nemesis.

Coals, provisions, and stores of all kinds, were sent on board the Nemesis with the utmost expedition, and, on the afternoon of the 14th October, she was once more ready for sea.

The nemesis must come; already the alarm has been sounded, and the State authorities here and elsewhere are trying to prevent the mischief.

Nemesis is the great stern power who never allows the guilty to escape from their just punishment, nor the good to lose their just reward.

When pursuit was resumed Jolly Roger would have at least a mile the start of the red-headed nemesis who hung to his trail.

Such cases happen now and then, and human justice cannot touch them; but most generally Nemesis comes sooner or later.

It is the common nemesis of alien rule to be too late in its reforms, and, even with the best intentions, to give the thing no longer asked, because its knowledge of the ruled has lagged behind.

Quite unconscious of the Nemesis which was already on his track, the captain was rapidly bringing his scheme to a climax.

He backed the Packard into the driveway that had been my nemesis and turned the car around.

The nemesis of things forces you to admit that your facts were partly fictions which waited for the unknown to give them a truer and fuller reality.

Nemesis caused him to fall in love with his own image as he saw it in a fountain, and Narcissus died because he could not approach the shadow.

Nemesis never completed a work of retribution more fully than it was completed in the life of Ellis Shannon.

Jimmy, having been assured that his nemesis would be on the stage throughout the entire act, had tip-toed back when the scene was half finished.

Such a nemesis naturally overtakes men who admit too easily an appeal from fact to sentiment.

When he asks whether this theory of the nemesis of suppression can serve the purposes of great literary work, it would seem natural at first to test it by the example of the greatest literary works.

Some went so far as to say that he was "asking for it," "it" in his case being presumably the Nemesis which waits on those who take big chances in an uncertain market.

Why should he, among all the thousands of men who had sinned similarly, be reserved for such a nemesis?

And what made that certainty more sure was the appearance of his nemesis, Denver Pete, in this crisis.