There are points in the second act, as Kitty becomes more strident in her protestations of irritation at the male dependents in her life, that you may become a little sick of Kitty's being sick of things.
This was especially noticeable in the protestations of innocense that surrounded the jockeying for the Vice-Presidential nomination.
Though loud in their protestations of respect for Catholic doctrine, the followers of Silvio Berlusconi and the Northern League backed a deal with the late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi that involved repelling seaborne migrants before they had a chance to apply for asylum.
Wreathed in pipe smoke and protestations of in nocence, he baffles and frus‐ trates the newsmen who come to call; after an interview they have been known to remark that Mr. Mitchell packs less self revelation into two hours of talk than his outspoken wife Martha does in two minutes.
"The idea that the big internet platforms are not media companies has never really been tenable, and the contradictions in their public protestations of neutrality have become ever more apparent over time," writes Francis Fukuyama in The American Interest.
As they languish in prison, their protestations of eternal friendship stop the instant they glimpse Emilia through a window, and they quarrel over her.
So I did not join in the noisy protestations of innocence which seemed to be voiced by about half the prisoners in the cage along with much cursing of judges and juries.
Molière's grumpy truth-teller Alceste has been stomping the stage, pouring verbose scorn on sycophancy and mendacity, for over 340 years, but humanity has yet to produce a generation of a calibre he'd admire – nor one unable to spot the flaws in his loud protestations of frankness.
In a season that has included protestations of boredom from Marc Jacobs in New York and Miuccia Prada in Milan, both responding with clothes that could be described, in rudimentary terms, as a return to the classics, there was not much reason then to quibble with Mr. Gaultier.
But Walsingham was naively taken in by Ridolfi's protestations of innocence.
