In the lament about the massacre — the work's second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.
I can't work up any real outrage over this, because really, did anyone think that big business deals like this are anything but bought and paid for in Washington?
"I think that was the catalyst for real outrage," Robert Fatton, a comparative government professor, says of Kiernan's e-mail.
It's hard to generate real outrage against a phenomenon with which we continue to be so complicit.
The growing impression of corporate executives abusing the trust of employees and investors could spark real outrage, particularly in a sinking economy.
Scenes of Blake struggling with a computer cursor ("fucking apt name for it!") raise a wry chuckle, but there's real outrage at the way this obligatory online form-filling has effectively written people like him out of existence.
The real outrage was who was approved.
The real outrage arose because of the mandatory life term Mr Martin initially received.
The real outrage, though, is the $9,000 bill for 5,000 business cards.
But the accusation misses the real outrage: Nigeria's own leaders have wilfully ignored the carnage in their country.
