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- proper noun Greek mythology the
goddess ofdivine retribution andvengeance
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Examples
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As season finales go, "Nemesis" is really dull up until the last 5 minutes or so.
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You do something interesting in "Nemesis" with the narrator who's talking to us throughout this story.
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His new novel, "Nemesis," is set during the polio epidemic in 1940s Newark, New Jersey, where Roth grew up.
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But this new novel, "Nemesis," is about polio, which is killing children.
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You do something interesting in "Nemesis" with the narrator who's talking to us throughout this story.
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His new novel, "Nemesis," is set in Newark, New Jersey in the 1940s during the polio epidemic.
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I like to think that Janeway’s appearance as an admiral in Nemesis is a sign that Starfleet realized just how unsuited to starship command she was and kicker her upstairs, even though she could easily have been court-martialed for all the crap she pulled as CO of Voyager.
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For, at the deepest level, Nemesis is not really about Cantor's war with polio but his war with himself: the war between a man's idea of duty and decency and the shirking of this for the facilitation of his more immediate happiness.
Nemesis by Philip Roth Edward Docx 2010
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-- If Nemesis is in a funk here, wait 'til he gets to this week's Wonder Woman #32 ....
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Seemingly told by an omniscient narrator, Nemesis is actually recounted by Arnold -- "Arnie" to Bucky -- Mesnikoff, one of the infected Weequahic boys crippled for life.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Philip Roth's Nemesis an Instant Classic David Finkle 2010
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