Trocchi accomplished significantly more despite a life that was wrecked partly by his heroin addiction but mostly by our punitive attitudes toward it.

I am infuriated by Osbournes punitive attitude to public sector workers and the poor.

"The railroad took a punitive attitude toward people who had already worked to exhaustion," Mr. Brunkenhoefer said.

I think it's a punitive attitude.

In York, Barrow resigns as Portector of the Aborigines to be replaced by R. H. Bland, who took a very punitive attitude to the local Balardong.

Repealers were particularly intolerant of unreformed and unrepentant women, adopting a punitive attitude towards them and explaining their resistance as a product of the demoralizing effects of forced medical inspection.

She said the room was indicative of "a punitive attitude toward children."

In her speech, Elias expressed concern about prison overcrowding and argued against what she described as the "punitive and knee-jerk" attitude of politicians towards the criminal justice system.

And she projects onto the child a sexual sophistication and a punitive attitude that he doesn't have.