The main target of their wrath was the secular Egyptian government, but a powerful current of anger was directed toward the West, which they saw as an enabling force behind the repressive regime.
"It may seem strange," Stille notes, "that Berlusconi — one of the principal beneficiaries of Italy's old political system — should become a powerful symbol of anger and protest against that system".
Empathy is a powerful antidote to anger, and voters are angry enough in 2016 to have propelled Trump into the White House, to have voted for Brexit, to have sent Pauline Hanson back to Canberra, to have allowed Xenophon to expand his footprint in Australia's parliament.
But this is the first time he has used his oratorical skills to give such a powerful display of his anger to Britain's two closest European partners.
The playwright made public statements at the time which he later regretted, but Fat Chance is a powerful expression of controlled anger.
Given the realpolitik in Trenton, where the State Police remain a powerful political force, that anger might cause Mr. Verniero serious problems -- if not during hearings early next year then perhaps in a few years, when he comes up for renomination.
While many who might have otherwise spoken out likely limited their criticism – not wanting to anger a powerful political dynasty – many prominent Democratic and Black commentators and politicians did call it out.
Now he has risked angering a powerful vested interest the armed forces.
She felt compelled to tart up the tale with a powerful female artist who angered the gods (any allegory going on there, Julie?), but it was all Greek to us.
President Obama on Friday tapped Jon Jarvis to lead the National Park Service, turning to a 30-year veteran who oversees the national parks across the Western states, and who has also angered a powerful United States senator, Dianne Feinstein, and other backers of a Northern California oyster farm.
