Word: angered
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...will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent...
...Eventually, the battle stopped. The clerics gathered at a nearby monastery to march downtown. But first came a chilling display of the people's anger - and the monks' moral influence. A man on a motorcycle rode up. Most motorcycles have been banned for years because, the story goes, the paranoid generals feared being shot by an assassin riding one of them. Those few people who can tool around on motorcycles are therefore assumed to be government spies. The mob pounced on the man, pulling him off his bike and raising their wooden sticks. "Beat him," they cried. "Kill him." Quickly...
...contorting his face and positing that if he were to run around the bench shaking his fist at Martin but not touching him, "It might cause you to become alarmed." Crossing his arms, Porter - a former Navy Lt. Commander - said Craig didn't have to intend "to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others" with his actions, as Minnesota law stipulates, in order to qualify for the charge of disorderly conduct. "All he has to do is do what he did," Porter said...
...pause came upon the battle. The monks regrouped at a nearby monastery to march downtown. But first came a chilling display of the people's anger - and the monks' moral influence. A man on a motorcycle rode up. Motorcycles have been banned in Rangoon for years, ever since - the story goes - the paranoid generals fear being shot by assassins riding one of them. Most people on motorcycles are therefore assumed to be spies...
Foreigners is written, like all Phillips' books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs. Its anger is the stronger for being deployed with such classic restraint. And the stories he chooses to share speak for thousands of other lives that are, and always will be, untold. A powerful complement to such novels as A Distant Shore (which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize three years ago), Foreigners is really one piece of a mosaic that Phillips has been carefully and patiently putting together all his life. Britain cannot know itself, he suggests, until it acknowledges...