Qatar, a nation of only 540,000 people, already had its collective feelings ruffled when Chile floated an offer last month.
Bayern don't look ruffled.
This year, despite the generally positive marks awarded the top six contenders -- Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Cyprus and Estonia -- feelings were ruffled by the "road map" that the Union now says will guide the admission of any new members.
The Tanzanian Government has apparently used deft but extremely quiet diplomacy to soothe ruffled feelings growing out of the incidents.
Feelings were soon ruffled again, this time when a village trustee withdrew Planned Parenthood's invitation to a volunteer-recruitment fair organized by the Community Advisory Board.
He also gave them multimillion-dollar bonus payments to smooth the feelings that were ruffled when Intermix was sold, dragging MySpace along with it against the will of its founders, who received only a small portion of the sale price.
He would later write in his memoirs that he had told a "white lie" in the 1955 article in order to "soothe ruffled feelings", and claimed full credit for the invention.
Duterte conceded that he "may have ruffled the feelings of some but that is how it is.
"My feeling is that [the Wikileaks] issue, might have ruffled feathers," he admits.
No hard feelings are risked, no feathers of audience sensitivity are ruffled, and as a result no memorable lines are uttered, no startling scenes unfold, and no character emerges toward whom you feel anything more than tepid good will.
The result was the acceleration of a further $125m in capital works and more than 430 jobs in Townsville – a move that has ruffled feathers in other parts of the state also feeling the sting of the mining downturn.
