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By the way, when I showed this slide to a group of Kiwanians in my town, they all rose in indignation from their creamed chicken, (Laughter) and they shouted at me and said, "It was raining that day when you took that picture!"
That fury that my friend felt holds centuries of never being able to directly address or express our indignation, our frustration and our rage.
It's hard because righteous indignation, that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive.
I remember watching this mini-series the first time in 1984 with a growing sense of anger and indignation.
Yet this same god has no indignation for the acts of the killer.
Naturally, such indignation made me even more eager to see it.
Consequently, in a mutual fit of self-righteous indignation, they decided on a whim to divorce (normally not a funny plot development, but bear in mind this is one of the best screwball comedies from the 1930s).
His indignation upon finding out his what his novel has been re-titled is classic.
It is guaranteed to arouse the viewer's indignation at the role of the rest of the world (including other African countries as well as Western states such as the UK, France and the USA, exercising political and economic influence through bilateral relations and through the United Nations) in prolonging the war in this small country.
For the plan’s opponents, the main causes of indignation are the criteria for assessment.
In a chain reaction of indignation, with predictable anti-Semitic spurts, the few voices that dared challenge the general hysteria found themselves overwhelmed.
But matters have gotten worse: border tensions between the US and Mexico have grown, the proposed wall has rightly provoked indignation, more unauthorized immigrants than ever are entering the US, and the FTAA has collapsed.
To be sure, Germany’s leaders still consider themselves to be pro-European and reject such criticism with indignation.
Europe can constructively participate in such discussion provided it first clears the way by:1. ridding itself of its constant indignation about the conduct of the Bush administration.
That indignation seems strongest among those who have not even bothered to read the American arguments.
Why have our brains evolved to generate feelings of empathy, disgust, indignation, solidarity, and pity?
Indeed, under the cover of indignation over the Peshawar attack, the leading suspect in the case – UN-designated terrorist Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who served as LeT’s operations chief – secured bail.
Shiraz Maher of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) at King’s College London identifies a common thread of sentiment among recruits: “righteous indignation, defiance, a sense of persecution, and a refusal to conform.”
Recently, the revelation that the “Life in the UK” test tries to instill respect for the practice of queuing – standing in line, that is – caused as much ridicule as indignation.
According to Smith,“A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the misery of their inferiors, and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine, that pain must be more agonizing, and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank, than to those of meaner stations...”We feel this, Smith believes, because we naturally sympathize with others (if he were writing today, he would surely invoke “mirror neurons”).
(The developing world has been largely absent in this debate, with notable exceptions in the form of indignation about unfairness built into the status quo, peppered with obstructionism.)
Fascism can be defeated only if those outraged by it commit themselves to social justice with an intensity that equals their indignation.
But the combination of popular indignation, courageous and independent judges, and a dynamic free press seems to be propelling the country along a promising path, as the irresponsible actions of politicians and businessmen are not only brought to light, but also punished.
Rather than mustering indignation, decision-makers would do well to use this as a wake-up call: it is time to consider a smarter climate policy.
Ordinarily, such pronouncements would provoke outcries of dismay, and of real or pretended indignation.
The current tension between China and (mostly) Western public opinion on the eve of the Beijing Olympics is the result of incompetence, hypocrisy, and legitimate but potentially counterproductive indignation.
The power of indignation is a necessary component of a transparent and interdependent world that has lost the privilege of ignorance.
Indeed, the dispersal of a peaceful protest march organized by Tibetan monks, which led to a wave of unrest that was brutally suppressed by the Chinese military and police, has caused indignation all over the democratic world.
Congress politicians have reacted with robust indignation to Modi’s attempt to appropriate Patel’s legacy.
Rather, the electorate was expressing its indignation, despair, and wounded national pride.
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