Liberals are at their most righteously indignant when they regard themselves as defending some minority against the onslaught of a dominant group.
Others are far more indignant about what they regard as a high level of excessively optimistic analysis, which they say hurts investors' ability to gauge a stock's prospects.
K. Randal Smith, Hong Kong What true conservatives think Regarding "'Conservative' party time" (Views, Aug. 23) by Thomas L. Friedman: True conservatives should be indignant that extremists are stealing their name.
The French were indignant over the "perp walk", which they regard as a humiliating breach of the presumption of innocence (see article).
Despite Stevens's great-grandfatherly mien, he remains ferociously competitive, still stewing over long-ago losses, like the Printz case, and indignant about more recent decisions that he regards as wrong.
Officials at Amnesty International, long a prime source of these repellant accounts, grow indignant when they hear their exposés repeated by George Bush or Tony Blair, men whose motives they regard as impure.
The manifesto authors are indignant at the attempt to explain, to make intelligible, that atrocity - an effort they they seem to regard as the original sin of the anti-war left.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran regards the Zionist regime's agents as perpetrators of such terrorist actions with criminal and hidden purposes," an indignant Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, told the press on Tuesday.
The issue will be whether the jury regarded Mr. Stevens, who openly displayed his temper, as a disagreeable and crotchety man caught in wrongdoing or a veteran public servant appropriately indignant at having his integrity questioned.
