Video footage of the 26-year-old Cypriot's spectacular display of fury and pique in his second round loss to Stanislas Wawrinka on Margaret Court Arena was broadcast around the world on television before it went viral today.
Some of the titles display the fury and fascination that Mr. Sarkozy has stimulated: "The King is Naked"; "The Man Who Doesn't Know How to Pretend"; "The Liquidator"; "He Must Go!"; "The Duty of Insolence"; and "Somersaults and Flips at the Élysée".
The Lyndon B. Johnson biographer Robert Caro noted that Johnson, then vice president, displayed a fury bordering on despair at being seated at the "loser's table" at Robert F. Kennedy's Virginia estate.
The section of a newspaper, magazine or website devoted to what you're having for your tea isn't usually the stuff of online petitions or open displays of fury (unless you're arguing over the origins of hummus, cultural appropriation or the best paella).
New Yorkers have spent much of this year displaying their fury over everything from the dismal economy to the proposed mosque and cultural center near the World Trade Center site.
True, the old guerrilla, looking frail as he was helped by bodyguards over a pile of rubble blocking his doorway, managed his familiar display of victimized fury.
But there are moments of real tension, as when the father circles the three others in a classic display of paternal fury and then juts his face into the camera's lens.
It's an extraordinary display of empty fury, swiftly followed by an excruciating moment where she dry-cries as a beautiful Sudanese refugee is put through to the next round.
In a display of public fury that has resonated within Brazil's military establishment, a retired military official, Pedro Ivo Moézia de Lima, himself the focus of torture accusations from his time overseeing interrogations in the 1970s, is publicly chafing at the new laws and filed a lawsuit to block the commission from starting its work in January.
But that's the only misstep in an otherwise marvelous display of controlled fury as she struggles to maintain her composure and dignity (and job) while dealing with a constant stream of insulting assumptions, indifference (Bev can't even remember how many children Francine has), and faux friendship.
Initially, he displays the incandescent fury of a thwarted killer.
