In a year of passionate favorites and flash-fire controversies, Affleck's film has emerged as the clear consensus winner – the film that rubs the least number of people up the wrong way.
Despite Carney's protestations, the publication of extracts of the White House emails by the Weekly Standard and ABC News has rekindled the fire of controversy surrounding Benghazi.
For now, the report from the National Institute on Media and the Family will surely stoke the fire of controversy – and, ultimately, sell a few more games.
But ex-keeper Haddin - who once rubbed shoulders with Coulter-Nile in the one-day national team - stoked the fire of controversy again, saying the WA quick had not earned a call-up through form nor fitness.
His other volumes of poetry include Dal fondo delle campagne (1965; "From the Bottom of the Field"), Su fondamenti invisibli (1971; "On Invisible Foundations"), Al fuoco della controversia (1978; "At the Fire of Controversy"), Per il battesimo dei nostri frammenti (1985; For the Baptism of Our Fragments), and Frasi e incisi di un canto salutare (1990; "Phrases and Digressions of a Salutary Song").
In a study already drawing the fire of controversy, an American geographer has pointed out evidence suggesting, in his view, that little more than the amount of iodine in their diets may have been responsible for the physical differences between Neanderthals and modern humans and that this might solve the mystery of what happened to the Neanderthals.
Arcade Fire received controversy around their 2013 tour at smaller clubs.
Despite the ignorance of the reporters who jumped on the "liar, liar, pants on fire" bandwagon, controversy stirs talk.
Like the NRA, the teachers unions light a teaspoon of policy proposals into a forest fire of controversy.
Arguments over Proposition 187 have fueled the fire of controversy, and the discussion over bilingual education in California has fanned it some more.
