The phrase "anger flared" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone's anger quickly began in reaction to something. For example, "When the teacher called on him without warning, anger flared in the student's eyes."
But her anger flared when an Israeli patrol passed by her home.
Thousands of troops had to be deployed and anti-mining activists were shot as anger flared around the Canadian-owned Escobal silver mine in Guatemala last year.
Paul's anger flared in a 2001 letter to Seymour: "I have made you and your children rich in the real estate and banking business, and you should all be ashamed of yourselves".
One protester who broke through the police cordon, David Allen, said his anger flared at the sight of British sports stars being guarded in the streets of London by Chinese security men.
Anger flared in Alingar district with the crowd moved towards the provincial capital of Mihtarlam, where they clashed with officers, said General Abdul Aziz Gharanai, the provincial police chief.
Her anger flared further recently when James, 12, became involved in a schoolyard shoving match over the ownership of a french fry, a dispute that she said was allowed to devolve into a melee of stomping and kicking despite the presence of several school officials nearby.
He let his anger flare up so fiercely that when he came to his own love letters he began to tear them up too.
Despite the reassurances, security was tight in Athens, the capital, on Thursday, with 4,000 police officers on duty and a ban on public protests in the city center, amid concerns about public anger flaring up over a continuing austerity drive for which many Greeks blame Germany, the euro zone's paymaster.
No, no, no... Disappointment and anger flare through me.
Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country.
And, with anger flaring across the Sunni-Shi'ite faultline that divides the Middle East, a conflict that has also split world powers along Cold War lines risks spilling over elsewhere.
