The writer Friedrich Christian Delius felt "a guilt-ridden, inhibited nation was suddenly reborn".
But Mr O'Neill, born in 1964 and one generation removed from the trauma, has a far less inhibited curiosity which takes him from an ancient monastery near Jerusalem to the wild west of Cork turning over family stones with happy abandon.
And she notes the current view of grandmothers as "unambitious, docile, emollient, inhibited, clenched, prudish, thwarted".
But having lost most of its hereditary members, the upper house feels less inhibited than it used to about wielding its formal powers of revision and delay.Indeed, Tory peers delight in taunting the government with what they have called the "Jay doctrine" since Baroness Jay, Labour's leader in the Lords, said an upper house shorn of most of its hereditaries would command greater legitimacy.
Some of the seemingly inhibited women who had worked there had subsequently taken up machetes in the country's genocide.
"I pray I'll never face a day when she isn't there" (April 11th 1981).A diary tells you more about a politician than anything else he writes or says; in a diary, he is less inhibited because he knows he probably will not be around when other people get to read it.
A notice on his door offered "Psychoanalysis for your typewriter, whether it's frustrated, inhibited, schizoid, or what have you," and he was as good as his word.
Muslim dismay at Tony Blair's co-invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not sway that decision, though it could be argued that anti-war sentiment inhibited proper post-invasion occupation planning and encouraged the Sunni insurrection against both invaders and Shia Muslims.
In March, he was inhibited from indulging his worst instincts by the presence of the Lib Dems; now he has no Danny Alexander standing in the way of his plans to bash the poor and dispossessed even harder, in the absurd pursuit of a budget surplus for the sake of it.
Abrupt cessation of alcohol use leads to brain hyperexcitability due to the sudden "release" effect on receptors which had been inhibited by the alcohol.
