It warmed his feelings to the sticking point.

[T]he punisher believes that the suffering she inflicts somehow offsets the (perceived) wrongdoing, but even the indignant discipliner (if suffering is what the discipliner inflicts) simply in order to attain a result: in order to educate, prevent, and so on.

Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.

Wolves, sensing the comeback of all comebacks was on the cards, kept pressing and set up an exciting finish when Ronald Zubar's header was judged to have crossed the line, even though it appeared that Nigel de Jong had successfully cleared the effort.