Word: choleric
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...There's nothing unusual about encountering an angry London cabbie. If the capital's taxis could be converted to run on choler, they'd have an inexhaustible supply of fuel. But the sense of grievance articulated by this cabbie is widely held, and is especially potent among white, working-class Britons, who believe they are in competition with immigrants and minorities for limited jobs and resources, and that the political classes give preferential treatment to those groups...
...resources and facilities that are only available at a place like Harvard.” Cohler participated in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and founded the Harvard-Radcliffe Ensemble Society, a chamber music ensemble that performed regularly at Sanders Theatre and featured varieties of chamber music from all musical periods. Choler has recorded a number of critically acclaimed albums. His debut LP, “Cohler on Clarinet” was awarded five stars by BBC Music Magazine and his follow-up “More Cohler on Clarinet” was considered one of “the best...
...tormented guitar player in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and made us sympathize with an unapologetic killer in Tim Robbins' death-row drama, Dead Man Walking. Let's call him a necessary actor. The movies always have a place for at least one causeless rebel whose choler is both enigmatic and unappeasable. Maybe, at 43, Penn has learned to speak politely in public. But it's one of our great guilty pleasures to watch him surface those terrible emotions we all feel but dare not share. --By Richard Schickel
...ruthless stripping away of banal protestations of love in a romantic relationship reveals this durable fact. Feminism's greatest triumph lies its success in helping us to understand and accept this. We might thus be inclined to think of contemporary romantic relations as love in the time of choler...
...movie's makers angrily deny that Fatal Attraction is antifeminist, but they must be smiling behind their public choler. All the controversy in newspapers and magazines is like a free front-page ad. Every argument at a cocktail party or around an office coffee machine keeps this monster movie alive. Even career women who take the film as libel have to see it, if only to know the enemy up close. Maybe Hitchcock was right when, to smooth the feathers of one of his stars, he cooed, "It's only a movie, Ingrid." Maybe Fatal Attraction is just a nine...