Despite the security forces' shoot-on-sight orders to enforce curfews aimed at cooling rage on the streets, thousands of people openly took to the streets Wednesday, to no apparent consequence.
This cooled public rage, but did little to deal with the root problems that make Egypt prone to such outbursts.
Then, like dating, I endured the when-will-they-message-me-try-and-keep-cool girl rage which, on this occasion, with a time frame, I feel was justified.
There was cool but profound rage in her voice.
With "The Mikado: Re-Imagined," Loh said, he has let his "rage cool into action".
They say it should be possible to "geoengineer" the planet to cool its increasingly raging greenhouse fever.
And when the heat of rage cools, all that we are left with is shame and regret.
As the rage cooled in Falluja on Thursday and the burned and beaten bodies of four American civilians were wrapped in white cloth, many townspeople said they were torn between pride in the attack and shame over the mutilations.
Sometimes he stayed out till dark and then crept home and slept in the hayloft, trusting his father's rage would cool overnight.
