The academy gave Presley the award in part to make up for past slights.

I am a shell of a human, deluded into thinking I have purpose, when all I really am is a conduit for my boss's simmering jealousy over past slights.

By doing so, he hopes that Dunk will kill Lady Rohanne and remove her threat to him and avenge past slights.

"Je me souviens," the license plates on Quebec cars say, "I remember," as if warning that past slights will one day be avenged.

So it was Jonas Wilkerson who wanted Tara-Jonas and Emmie, who in some twisted way thought to even past slights by living in the home where they had been slighted.

Being what he was, Rhett would naturally want to torment and insult her as much as possible to pay her back for past slights and for her recent attempted trickery.

Phills is one of the many Hornets players who, like Silas, has risen above past slights.

Mr. Isdell had been passed over before for the top job at Coke, but he professed to feel no resentment over past slights.

As Mr. Rather began describing him, Mr. Buchanan, evidently recalling past slights, shouted jubilantly at the screen, "And youthful admirer of Joseph McCarthy!"

Cady's more natural friends are two outsiders (Ms. Caplan and Mr. Franzese) who would dearly like to avenge Regina's past slights.