Sentences with phrase «apoplectic in»

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For example, in the bear market environment of the early 1970s, countless people were apoplectic over an irrational fear that ITT (the International Telephone and Telegraph company), which had begun a program of taking over smaller companies, would take over the world.

Not only are there very few voices in the mainstream media expressing doubts about the wisdom of the current military operation, but a number of commentators have waxed apoplectic over any possibility that there may be those in the land who oppose the war effort.

I know some people are going to go apoplectic about «moral equivalency», but my point is to show that we are not always objective in evaluating leaders in other cultures, places and times.

The talking heads are just apoplectic over Ms. O'Donnell's victory over the GOP RINO candidate in the People's Republic of Delaware.

To be honest there was no outstanding player inc wellbeck who drifted in and out and got a couple of massive breaks which would have sent this site in to apoplectic fits if they had gone the other way....

The Trail Blazer management becomes apoplectic, while Walton's injury is so serious he spends seven months in a cast, sees virtually all musculature in his left foot disappear and misses the entire 1978 - 79 season.

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

A Cech goal kick going into touch had Wenger apoplectic with anger in his puffy, light grey sleeping bag coat.

Apoplectic rage was widespread in many Manchester United supporting households on Wednesday after news emerged that Pedro would be joining rivals Chelsea.

New York State would be allowed to confiscate money from private not - for - profit health insurers under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's latest budget pitch, a proposal that has left many in the insurance industry apoplectic.

Not for nothing have share prices in pharmaceuticals reacted like apoplectic kangaroos to each whiff of a promising AAMI drugs trial.

Modern audiences know Cooper best as the apoplectic Perry White in the Christopher Reeve Superman films.

The definitive Wilson performance in this vein was as Joe Gordon, reporter Clark Gable's apoplectic city editor in the 1934 multi-award winner It Happened One Night.

Perhaps the peakiest peak in a film full of»em: Walter Matthau's transit cop, pleading for cooperation from the spectacularly apoplectic Dick O'Neill as the head of transit operations, protests that all he cares about is saving lives.

Even as her ascendency in the world of independent cinema continues (with intimate, pensive gems like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff, and Night Moves), the Florida - born filmmaker refuses to be anything but apoplectic.

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.

More importantly, she also begins experiencing what may or may not be hallucinations of her ex, which sends her into more apoplectic fits that in turn send her into solitary confinement.

They tried to do this for 12 schools in San Francisco and the union went apoplectic and reccomended against all the incumbents.

Whenever a new book comes out in this series, I get apoplectic as I KNOW it is going to be a winner.

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.

In the subsequent exhibitions of the Incoherent arts (also in the 1880s) the writer Alphonse Allais proposed other monochrome paintings, such as «Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige» («First communion of anaemic young girls in the snow», white), or «Récolte de la tomate par des cardinaux apoplectiques au bord de la Mer Rouge» («Tomato harvesting by apoplectic cardinals on the shore of the Red Sea», redIn the subsequent exhibitions of the Incoherent arts (also in the 1880s) the writer Alphonse Allais proposed other monochrome paintings, such as «Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige» («First communion of anaemic young girls in the snow», white), or «Récolte de la tomate par des cardinaux apoplectiques au bord de la Mer Rouge» («Tomato harvesting by apoplectic cardinals on the shore of the Red Sea», redin the 1880s) the writer Alphonse Allais proposed other monochrome paintings, such as «Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige» («First communion of anaemic young girls in the snow», white), or «Récolte de la tomate par des cardinaux apoplectiques au bord de la Mer Rouge» («Tomato harvesting by apoplectic cardinals on the shore of the Red Sea», redin the snow», white), or «Récolte de la tomate par des cardinaux apoplectiques au bord de la Mer Rouge» («Tomato harvesting by apoplectic cardinals on the shore of the Red Sea», red).

If anyone could be bothered to collect all of Michael's comments here over time, one would see, in sum, only «an apoplectic rant full of errors.».

Yet Ince is apoplectic throughout the discussion, as though O'Neill himself was the only thing in the world holding back the progress he wanted to see.

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.

One group of people that were very upset with these efforts must be apoplectic with rage over Aadhaar: greedy and corrupt representatives in panchayats.