Sentence Examples:
Nemesis is stern, but man is pitiful; retribution is inexorable, but humanity is sympathetic.
The nemesis of a high degree of protected specialization is the loss of adaptability.
I suppose it is a sort of nemesis of wit; the skidding of a wheel in the height of its speed.
We are incessantly seeking to take the one half and leave the other, and straightway Nemesis overtakes us.
It is the Nemesis of pedantry to be always wrong.
And it is also the nemesis of bigotry to be bitter, cruel, and violent.
The favorite had been guilty of all those extravagances which constitute the Nemesis of upstarts.
Yet she did not flinch in her certainty that nemesis must be obeyed and even aided.
A curious fatality that has the air of a nemesis pursues those who succeed in giving this false appearance.
A nemesis he could not escape, and a fiend he could not quite catch.
Nemesis lurked also in that corner of the landscape.
Men and women as individuals may sometimes escape the Nemesis which waits on immorality.
Edmond Holmes has called the Nemesis of docility.
The fear of the vague nemesis he called "chickens coming home to roost" was too obscure.
"The Nemesis of Faith" was declared a skeptical and even an infidel book.
There is such a thing as the nemesis of unbelief.
Nemesis came in the spring of 1881, in the form of the French invasion of Tunisia.
Who could say that morality did not reign in the world when such a nemesis as this awaited Walter Blake, or that morality had not a humor of its own when Walter Blake accepted the nemesis with enthusiasm?
The central climax of a tragedy like this of intrigue and nemesis cannot be more clearly marked than in the incident in which are combined the summit of the injury and the foundation of the retribution.
Each is a system of four actions: there is the action initiating the problem with the three tragedies which make up its solution, there is again the action generating the intrigue and the three tragedies which constitute its nemesis.
This Nemesis is deeply embedded in the popular mind and repeatedly crops up in its proverbial wisdom.
No cry of the sufferer could reach this torpid Nemesis and rouse her to quicker action.
The nemesis of the Chinese smugglers said he had a clew he wished to look up in the canyon.
Some nemesis of mischance seemed to dog her flights more often than not.
It is self-slain by the Nemesis of satiety.
It was the nemesis that overtook the Greeks for having become too complacently human.
Every previous device, however well it had begun, had soon been withered and killed by boredom, nemesis of idlers.
This task had whetted his appetite, and had cultivated his sense for historic character and historic nemesis.
A false exegesis is sure to bring a nemesis on itself.
Nemesis, however, awaited the originators of this unpleasant trick.
Like a Hogarth canvas, it typified for me the ugly nemesis of illicit passion in all its grotesque nakedness.
Nemesis, however, hovered behind him, for there had been an unsuspected witness to the scene.
Nemesis is represented as a goddess venerated by all, but feared by the powerful and the fortunate.
Every mishap was attributed to this nemesis.
It is as if the father steps into her place in order that the species may escape the nemesis of elimination.
It becomes a mocking and cruel Nemesis viewing with indifference its writhing victims.
Like a specter from the tomb Nemesis arose to mock him amid the very riches which his guilt had purchased.
Jupiter loomed like a great gloating nemesis across the entire ragged horizon.
This was the inevitable nemesis for a war of annexation directed against a proud and patriotic people.
And I regard futility as the real nemesis of Society.
"Why should it obliterate only those of your nemesis?"
No law can be broken without a nemesis; nature is as pitiless as the world of men.
Herodotus wrote to illustrate the wonderful ways of Providence and the nemesis that falls on sin, and his work is a good example of the truth that nothing can dispense with criticism so much as a moral aim.
He ascribed it, however, to the Nemesis which dogs the heels of those who inherit the estate of another.
It is this use of the nemesis idea that makes the merit of the ballad.