Sentence examples for modest outrage from inspiring English sources

Paradoxically, the two candidates who have spoken most often about the need for an overhaul of the campaign finance laws -- Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, and former Senator Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat -- have discovered that the issue generates only modest outrage among voters.

Suthers' modest outrage at the pay-to-play nature of this is fairly surprising for someone from a party that has so happily embraced K Street lobbyists and the culture of corruption.

Some groups, like the Brennan Center, at New York University, are making admirable attempts to build on the (modest) public outrage about the flawed mechanics of the 2012 election.

From blogs chronicling the dizzying number of independent coffee shops and cocktail bars to the modest internet outrage provoked by a Brick Lane cereal shop owner's remarkable tone-deafness, gentrification is a topic that's all abuzz.

Most of us remember learning that Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" provoked outrage when it was first published, because of its supposed suggestion that the solution to Ireland's desperate poverty should be for the poor to sell their children to the wealthy as food.

If so, that would turn a modest, if distasteful, scandal into a reason for public outrage.

Their album Tin Machine (1989) and tour earned a mixture of modest acclaim and howls of outrage.

The Senate had already failed miserably to approve modest new gun restrictions despite public outrage over the massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 educators in Connecticut last December.

"I said, 'That's an outrage.' He said, 'Actually, General Goethals was a modest sort of guy and more about the work than the celebration of the work.

He fooled and outraged an entire nation with his essay, A Modest Proposal on remedying the Irish famine problem with cannibalism (did they not realise he was a cleric from Dublin?) but Gulliver's Travels remains his masterpiece.

Their killings provoked outrage worldwide; the pictures of the priests sprawled face down on the lawn of their modest home after being shot by soldiers were among the most haunting images of the war.