In a December 22 item, part of his running feature “Bushism of the Day” in Slate, Jacob Weisberg ridiculed George W. Bush for describing himself as not a “revengeful” person. It’s not an everyday usage, but Bush this time is in good company:
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“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.”
Get thee to a nunnery” speech).
