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Example sentences for: vigilante
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Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.
The beauty of The Limey is that it takes a pretty standard pulp formula--wronged gangster turned vigilante avenger--and creates what amounts to an essay on the idea of "distance": from other people, from the effects of our own actions in the past, and from ourselves.
One article decries "vigilante justice," and says that the United States erred by declaring itself in effect "free to make its own rules" against an amorphous terrorist network.
He killed a couple of Rwandan park rangers in defense of his adorable ape family--which makes the movie a de facto vigilante picture and thus as mainstream a product as any that Hollywood churns out.
The rousing Dirty Harry (1971) is inarguably a template for the modern, right-wing vigilante picture, replete with digs at Miranda rights, due process, and the burgeoning civil-liberties movement.