Word: ire
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Braving the ire of traditionalists, Steinsaltz inserted vowel marks and punctuation. He also translated Aramaic sections into modern Hebrew and explained the numerous words from other languages that crop up. Even more boldly, he wrote his own commentary to appear with the two classical ones and provided a wealth of explanatory notes. Twelve typefaces had to be used to help readers sort out the various categories of material...
Here is the source of Podhoretz's ire. Poets like Brodsky belong to that group of people who have little time for such political questions as the value of capitalism, and are interested in something more intangible, more transcendent, such as the condition of the human imagination...
...numbers prove that Manhattan's reckless-bike-riding problem is not trivial. Even so, the ire stirred by the bikers is striking. Some argue (not too convincingly) that the antipathy toward messengers, who are mostly black, is racially motivated. But that does not explain the shouts of anger directed at white speed demons by startled white pedestrians...
This context helps explain why the MDC reacted with such seemingly unprovoked ire to the prospect of students celebrating on the banks of the Charles. What is a traditional celebration in the city now seems terrifying. There has been no increase in unruly behavior, no upturn in arrests. There has been a change in perception. That change has come about because of a new conception of what public events should be like. It is a pattern which can be traced across the country...
...Bork's ire is most provoked by the Supreme Court's famous decision over the past 20 years protecting what it deemed invasions of rights to privacy fundamental to, though not explicit in, the text of the Constitution. The anticontraceptive law challenged in Griswold v. Connecticut may have been "nutty," as Bork says. Worse, still, was Justice William O. Douglas' opinion in the case, which held that the statute violated individual rights that "emanated" from "penumbras" of the Constitution...