Word: rage
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...prominent religious leader in Denmark who last year galvanized fellow Muslims around the world to protest newspaper cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad; of lung cancer; in Copenhagen. Saying he was humiliated by the cartoons--one of which showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban--Laban helped fuel rage that many Danes blamed for sparking anti-Danish violence in the Middle East...
...author. “Determining if someone has agency dictates if we hold them accountable for their actions.” Participants in the survey were asked to rank fictional characters based on what they believed the characters’ capacities were for sensations like rage and desire as well as their abilities to exercise self-control and thought. For example, one question asked respondents to evaluate whether a five-year-old girl would be more or less likely to feel pain when compared to a chimpanzee. The study used 13 different characters, including a fetus, an adult woman...
...their pots. But they found nothing, for nothing was there to be found. In the end, physical exhaustion got the better of their revolutionary zeal. But they were fuming; they had lost face by not finding anything. The man in the tinted glasses was beside himself with rage. His face turned white, and his lips trembled. He raised his arm to strike me. At that very moment Meiping's cat, Fluffy, tore through the kitchen door, jumped on the man's leg and sank his teeth into the man's calf. Screaming with pain, the man hopped wildly...
...makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking inward and outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They are red and shattered, as if a bomb had gone off inside them and fractured the window glass, behind which is a red fire. He does not want to talk, but does, finally, when he has settled down. He says a Jewish settler came in a car and used...
...argument in a university cafeteria between Shi'ite and Sunni students, and ended in a violent riot that engulfed several Muslim districts of Beirut, leaving four people dead and the city locked down under a nighttime curfew. Lebanon's bickering political bosses have released the genie of sectarian rage, and it is by no means certain that it can be coaxed back into the bottle...