Dave Hunter Bristol The best defence of the exclamation mark (Should children be told to not use exclamation marks?, 8 March) ever written is surely Chekhov's short story of that title, where its function is revealed as expressing "delight, indignation, joy and rage".
A field hospital has sprung up on the corner and demonstrators – mostly young men – in trademark eye-patches and Guy Fawkes masks mill about, variously ticking with adrenaline, indignation and impotent rage.
We've had 30 or 40 years of righteous indignation and even virtuous rage.
Method actors, for instance, can produce radiant smiles by force of imagination, just as they produce hot tears, shrieks of terror, gusts of indignation, and blasts of rage.
These two volumes of American speeches are useful, and sometimes are powerful ignition points for hot flashes of indignation, contempt, rage, veneration and yearning.
I saw them reduce important people, masters of their own sizable universes, to impotent, spluttering, vein-standing-out-on-the-forehead rage and indignation, and there was nothing they could do.
Any form of rejection can trigger our sense of isolation and loneliness, which, in turn, can trigger fear-based emotions such as sadness, indignation or rage.
