I'll happily accept his insistence that he is not now and never has been a "paleoconservative," but most of the rest of his complaint leaves me with new insight into the consternation of those who had trouble keeping pace with McCarthy's scattershot accusations.
"This is not the right cabinet for turning into a girl," he said in consternation.
ONLOOKERS first stared in consternation.
It so easy for judgment to turn into judgmental-ness and for moral consternation to turn into something uglier.
He is triggered by Boaz's memories into realizing, to his consternation, that he has none of his own.
Iran's winning submission at the last Oscars, "A Separation," about a collapsing marriage, was also dragged into politics, to the consternation of its director, Asghar Farhadi.
When the people of Beijing peacefully stopped the tanks on their first sorties into the city, the consternation in the leadership compound was palpable.
At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Nike handed out caps at transport hubs that spectators wore into the stadium to the consternation of Reebok, a sponsor.
The move has thrown everyone -- activists, opponents, elected officials and jurists -- into a state of consternation.
But it's not good for the conservative movement, which has regarded his efforts to drag it into modernity with increasing consternation.
