Sentences with phrase «apoplectic at»

The national media and a hundred advocacy groups were apoplectic at the prospect of Stephen Harper as prime minister - a man who said he would never introduce abortion legislation.

Some of these loco wild - eyed nuts go apoplectic at a few de minimus errors by a respected voice here [and at Oxford], as if no one on their side ever makes a mistake.

Those old farts would be positively apoplectic at the concepts, structures and materials we now employ for painting.

(He becomes apoplectic at the thought of the wretched lovebirds sharing the new jacuzzi.)

Although I am depressed at the prospect of 5 years of Tory rule (however tempered by by the LibDems), and close to apoplectic at the antics of some on our side that made absolutely sure that's what we would get, I am looking forward to having the chance to change the party for the better.

Carlo Ancelotti will be apoplectic at the Real marking which was nowhere to be seen, will that goal set the tone for the tie?

Not exact matches

At the time, I was apoplectic.

I was apoplectic when Justin Williams nearly gouged out Saku's eye, even though we really didn't have any shot at the cup that year.

There was a man who had seen a lot in his football career and he was apoplectic with rage and horror at the injury.

If May is serious about her distain for corporate greed, she should be apoplectic with rage at what happened here and would provide suggestions for how to prevent it happening again where firms were bidding for public contracts.

Clinton loyalists were apoplectic, at least publicly.

It took the book culture by storm in 1996, turning critics apoplectic with praise while requiring some readers to make multiple attempts at hacking through its thicket of wry footnotes and serpentine, beautifully constructed sentences.

Two white policemen are seen at the far right, one calm, the other apoplectic and wielding a chair.

Even critics otherwise sympathetic to advanced painting in the 1950s were made apoplectic by Newman's huge, minimally inflected canvases — fields of monochromatic paint with a vertical stripe or two — and they have provoked vandalism from the time of his first solo show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1950.

For another view of the appointments and these criticisms, read Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker: «Warmists apoplectic as Brazil president names climate skeptic as science minister.»

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.