This year, however, Mr. Kerry put out the word that speakers were to accentuate the positive and to avoid angry partisanship.
While the airlines may have avoided angry passengers bombarding agents at airports, they still are having trouble handling the surge of calls after cancellations are announced.
The driver, Brett M. Sloppy, 28, of San Marcos, Calif., escaped uninjured, officials said, but had to be escorted away under police protection to avoid angry spectators, some of whom threw rocks at him.
In contrast with last year, when Mr. Blair was smuggled into the hearing room to avoid angry demonstrators, on Friday he entered by the front door, encountering only scattered catcalls from a small crowd of protesters.
In the past week, videotaped snippets of the incendiary race rhetoric of Mr. Obama's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., seemed on the verge of tainting Mr. Obama with the stereotype he had carefully avoided: angry black politician.
The pressure has been unbearable– even under Mel there were training ground confrontations and players now routinely leave by the back door to avoid angry fans – but some agreed.
When he fled to London to avoid angry members of his former gang, he ended up in Regent's Park mosque; then he was offered a Saudi-funded scholarship to study Arabic and his new faith at an ultra-conservative religious school in Yemen.
Instead, participants gazed more at negative than neutral emotional displays although they physically avoided angry (but not sad or neutral) agents.
Earlier, she had to be escorted by police as she left a church visit to avoid angry locals.
There were many moments where I was biting my tongue, running to hide my tears and clenching my hands to avoid angry outbursts.
It is very important in the presence of children to avoid angry outbursts and tirades against people you believe are responsible; this will be confusing and may even make children feel that they are somehow responsible for making you sad or angry.
