Word: anger
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...schadenfreude when they pass the Lilys of their towns sporting side-swept bangs and Dashboard Confessional hoodies. In America, at least, the concept of rebellion as inevitable is not experienced by most as a phenomenon, but rather as a cliché. This practice of outwardly expressing anger is viewed as common for the simple reason that it is a feeling that has been established as universal: a right of passage for the under-20 set (cf. any movie about high-schoolers ever) and an iconized behavior of the cool (cf. “Rebel Without a Cause?...
...Sept. 21, after conferring with President Shimon Peres. On tour in the Negev desert while his party voted, Olmert told a group of students, "I decided to resign with pain, not with pleasure, I must say, really with pain." He added, less convincingly, "I have no bitterness, no anger." Olmert was hoping that the primaries race between Livni and Mofaz would be forced into a run-off, giving him a few extra weeks at the helm...
...When a parent dies, the five stages of grief her surviving children experience often go like this: denial, anger, depression, acceptance and, finally, bargaining over the estate. That, anyway, is the sequence of feelings that hit Frédéric (Berling), eldest child of Hélene (Scob), matriarch of the clan who died at 75. Neither of his siblings - Adrienne (Binoche), a designer living in New York, and Jérémie (Renier), whose job has taken him, his wife and kids to Shanghai - is attached to Hélene's country home as much...
...problem. He's charming enough--God knows what the Boughton family did for the 20 years he was gone, since he's the only one in the house who can make a proper joke. He just isn't quite real. It's impossible to locate in Jack the anger and lust that drove him to defile the local women and then skip town, and Robinson leaves utterly abstract whatever misdeeds kept him busy for two decades in the flesh pits of (gasp!) St. Louis, Mo. He's one of these erudite wastrels like Stephen Dedalus who quote scripture freely...
...Pope's centerpiece speech in France is expected to come at the College des Bernardins in front of academics, cultural leaders, representatives of Islam, and European Union and United Nations officials. Some in the Vatican press corps have billed it Regensburg II, though few expect it will trigger any anger among Muslims...