Sentences with word «apoplexy»

Possibly, what I liked most about Abbie Hoffman was how his appearance on the evening news would induce fits of apoplexy in my father.

Then there is the site that sends traditional publishing into apoplexy more often than not by sticking pins into their balloons about the earning potential of indie authors and just how popular e-books are with readers.

It is a diminutive dog with an elegant way of going, a spunky dog with a sense of humor, an energetic dog with a bouncy personality that brightens days and sometimes causes apoplexy in its owners.

In person he can seem gentle and polite — old world even — but press a microphone to his face or a pen to his hand and he quickly twists himself into a knot of purple apoplexy.

The French President was reported to have died from apoplexy while engaged in sexual activities in his office in the Elysée palace with a much younger woman.Inejiro Asanuma12 October 1960, Japan

First — and perhaps most importantly — it would drive the Greenies to the kind of sphincter - popping apoplexy not seen since Hillary lost the election.

Soon - Shiong could go public with an offer for the company, but he would face almost an identical situation that drove Gannett to corporate apoplexy last fall.

The London lettings agency has caused apoplexy among some lettings agents, but the National Landlords Association has applauded it.

A Beverly Hills banker almost has apoplexy upon examining the check and Juan knows he has the real thing.

Globo is owned by Ben Stiller, overacting to the point of apoplexy as White Goodman; his manic performance is consistently funny, especially when he protects against Small Man Complex by surrounding himself with enormous body - builders and building an inflatable crotch into his training pants.

That doesn't mean it's good, mind, as 27 Dresses has Jane, in a fit of jealous apoplexy, resort to a Bride Wars tactic of «outing» her shallow sister (Malin Akerman, already typecast as a knock - off Cameron Diaz from looks to roles to braying laugh) in front of their loved ones with a rehearsal dinner slideshow.

I bet they'd drop dead from apoplexy right on the spot.

I suspect the reason why there are not yet standards in science or history is that there is a very hysterical, very shrill, very anti-intellectual, anti-science subgroup in this country who will disintegrate into apoplexy if their version of those disciplines, based entirely on their minority interpretations of certain ancient texts, is not included in the standards.

Having see - off a chunk of Porsche traditionalists with the Cayenne, Porsche then conspired to gave those still left apoplexy by delivering to the world a big, bloated four - door saloon — the Porsche Panamera.

Okay, not an actual thrombosis but maybe a state of joyful apoplexy.

John Gapper, «It may give Mr Lipton apoplexy, but there is no harm in investors challenging executives and a board of directors if they are hoarding cash from caution or laziness.»

If there has been less apoplexy there's probably been a lot more puzzlement.

If some among the clique of Turner Prize watchers had rooted for Anthea Hamilton (one of the artists in the shortlist), it was because Hamilton adhered to the prize's long - standing penchant for arousing apoplexy.

The force was strong on this one, as the denialists naysayers went into full - throated apoplexy.

I am constantly on the verge of apoplexy about this assumption that it is an either / or, neither / nor situation.

This drove the SJWs into apoplexy.

«Some people don't know where to channel their purple apoplexy — or they won't accept others» doing it for them,» said William F. B. O'Reilly, reflecting on the schism in the «New York right.»

Reading this account, which covers the period from 1492 to 1783, while following reports on the 2016 presidential campaign, will enable us to maintain a degree of philosophical detachment rather than falling into fits of apoplexy or despair.

Found out many years later that it was a white shark breeding ground but I'm glad I didn't know that at the time or I'd have just died, just had apoplexy or something.

The genesis stories that give so many of you apoplexy are categorically NOT to be taken literally.

The cause of the apoplexy was the Archbishop's imputation of bigotry to the newspaper.

Liberal commentators, including some on this blog, have reacted with puzzlement and apoplexy.

Falling house prices risk worsening the mood of economic gloom, and the merest prospect of cheaper homes drives certain sections of the commentariat to apoplexy.

Reading between the lines — which is what Labour activists are good at — this paragraph suggests state intervention into labour markets, greater regulation of business and the sort of restrictions of the free market that would send Conservatives into a state of apoplexy.

To the apoplexy of the whips, he was for a time the only person appointed to government who voted against the Iraq War.

MacGregor believes that the high frequency of stroke or «apoplexy» in the 19th century stems from the salt preservation of food, which meant that people ate twice as much salt as they do today.

But if Vergara got the unions in a snit, Harris has pushed them into apoplexy.

But the judges, who included the Tate supremo Sir Nicholas Serota, loved it for its daring and for driving some traditionalists to apoplexy.

Among the dwindling band of deluded wind and sun worshippers, no two words are more prone to send them into apoplexy than «South Australia».

The response to this ruling by political partisans and labour unions has been apoplexy.

Perhaps a delayed reaction from a hiring manager I once knew who was vehemently opposed to that extra comma, almost to the point of apoplexy.

Not so fantastic when a Twitter blackout sends you into apoplexy.

My wife will have apoplexy, and together we'll have a ball....