retributive

How To Use retributive In A Sentence

• Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
• Precisely because prison is an instrument of punishment in the retributivist view, and retributive punishment must be proportionate in some reprobative way to the degree of harm which the offender caused, a retributive sentence of imprisonment must not be excessive, must have definite limits. Prisons & Punishment
• The hero knows his tradecraft, maintains his own arsenal and belongs to the retributive school of law enforcement. Times, Sunday Times
• Chandler’s idea of retributive justice is to overaccentuate anything positive about her subject. ‘I Am Joan Crawford’
• Doubtless the torturing pangs of anxiety and suspense have already begun to lay hold on your heart, from my already too long delay; be assured, however, my procrastination proceeds from no vindictive feeling, or retributive motive, but alone from cir From Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,Sept. 16, 1856
• retributive justice demands an eye for an eye
• Thus, in the dialectical, penetrative understanding embodied in the play, the retributive logic remains, but not merely in the form of physical violence.
• As a new model of dispute resolution, restorative justice is quite different from the traditional retributive justice.
• The poem proceeds to move fear away from political theology and ultimately toward a secular account of legitimate retributive justice — in which fear is invoked as a highly specific accompaniment to the notion of deserved punishment for the "fratricide" that Romantic Fear
• By contrast, the retributive theory places strict limits on the allowable punishment.