During this traumatic year for our political culture, MPs have first tried to hide their abuse of parliamentary expenses, then claim in many cases they had done nothing wrong, then make insincere apologies, then display outrage at being asked by Sir Thomas Legg to both apologise and pay substantial amounts of the money back.
People are mad, and they're showing it, but they're not exactly sure what to do other than publicly display outrage.
This display outrages me more than some of the other egregious slights to democratic norms of late because here we have some foundational (and I think, essential) notions of what democracy consists being undermined in a very cavalier way by the very people charged with upholding those democratic principles.
Overnight, Parisians again took to the streets of their city to watch the lights go out on the Eiffel Tower in an unprecedented display of outrage and unity.
It is no coincidence that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's overly dramatic display of "outrage" at the 2009 Davos forum took place two months before Turkish elections.
Some graduates, unhappy with the mayor's budget cutting, had sent out an e-mail message urging a quiet display of outrage.
"I'll be looking at that," he said of the panel, which Mr. Giuliani first proposed on Feb. 15 in a display of outrage from his podium at City Hall.
If ever there was a moment to insist, through a peaceful display of outrage, that Britain can do so much better by following a different course, this is it.
In a display of outrage, 49 eminent authors recently signed their names to an open letter condemning three fellow writers, including British thriller novelist RJ Ellory, for having anonymously posted positive online reviews of their own work and criticising rivals.
Despite the display of outrage, witnesses said that many of the protesters were government employees ordered to demonstrate, and that aside from a large gathering outside the presidential palace, most of Khartoum was quiet.
In one of the most controversial Grand Slam finals in recent years, Williams, attempting to tie the record with her 24th major title, was levied a game penalty late in the second set during a stunning display of outrage directed at the match's umpire.
