poetic justice

Reality competitions switch up their rules all the time—thanks in large part to contracts with cast members that grant them an insane amount of freedom to play around—but rarely with the aim of enacting poetic justice.

Or perhaps poetic justice demands that the life of an unstoppably prolix author be parceled out in multiple, overlapping volumes.

Esposito: I thought it was poetic justice that Gus would go with Tio.

It is either poetic justice or a desperate attempt by Rupert Murdoch to stop the bleeding.

Bush took firing U.S. Attorneys to a whole new level so it would be poetic justice if President Obama purged the DoJ.

This seems to be a striking illustration of "poetic justice."

I had not dared to hope for such a complete triumph of poetic justice as occurred.

In short, your elementary class demands poetic justice—demands it strong and desires it quick.

Romantic as his exploit was, it lacked the fulness of poetic justice, since the chief offender escaped him.

The public of Priorton did not know whether most to admire Mrs. Spottiswoode's diplomacy, or this rare instance of poetic justice.