Though I opted for quiet reflection (not, as I might once have hoped, at the Angel of Peace Reflecting Pool Sculpture, $125), social-media types were apoplectic.
These monsters still face life in prison, but the victims groups remain apoplectic, not least because the state still has the death penalty on the statute books.
It drew apoplectic protests from Israel and much abject apologising from the British government.
Republicans in Congress, fresh from a mid-term triumph, would immediately become apoplectic and probably say some daft things.
Rush Limbaugh, a right-wing radio host, is turning ever more apoplectic at the prospect of Mr McCain walking off with the Republican nomination and has given warning that a vote for Mr Huckabee will hand the race to Mr McCain.
It will be interesting to see now whether the Greeks go apoplectic or decide to play it cool.
Some ministers are said to be "apoplectic" over the suggestion that they disclose the contents of their appointments diaries, fearing they might be picked over for evidence of favours given to businessmen though this is just the sort of thing the act is supposed to uncover.
Customers rarely consider roaming fees when choosing operators, and it is in all operators' interests to keep prices high.Mobile phone operators, predictably, are apoplectic.
Add to this the lagging fortunes of his Social Security reforms even among Republican voters and Mr Bush looks much less formidable.The religious right has good reason to be apoplectic.
Yet as soon as the UN Security Council issued new sanctions against the regime as a result of the rocket launch, the response was apoplectic, warning of more tests and threatening to attack America.
But they will be delighted to see the Greeks, who have been blocking Macedonia's EU and NATO integration over an objection to the country's name, turn apoplectic with rage when it is unveiled.
