In other words, when a novelist does a good job portraying a character in a rose garden, you catch a hint of the scent; an act of fictitious injustice makes you feel outrage; a good sex scene perks you right up.
Mr. Gunn made you feel the outrage of veterans who fought not only in World War I but in Iraq and Afghanistan, returning from overseas to cold shoulders and empty food pantries.
In fact, his preoccupation with male genitalia and anal sex is so tedious, it makes you forget the real outrage: the inequality of the class system.
In January, a Thai advert for skin-whitening pills with the slogan "Whiteness makes you win" caused international outrage, while the Guardian reported last year that, while skin-whitening creams had been banned on the Ivory Coast, women still continued to use them.
If that is really the case, it makes you question all of the outrage being directed at Goldman over this transaction.
It's not a game if you don't make money from outrage, but are outraged by how little money you have.
The incident generated enormous controversy, made headlines, and outraged the boys' parents.
By Louis Menand In "Making It," Podhoretz outraged friends by writing candidly about ambition.
Buruma comments further, "This, incidentally, has become a standard cliche: whenever G.I.s are shown in Japanese porno films, invariably in the act of outrageously raping Japanese maidens, they are very often blacks to make the outrage seem even worse".
