But here's the thing: politicians and pundits would have you believe that this election is a choice between Cameron and Miliband, between outrage and disappointment.
Can you believe it?" Lambton recalled, still torn between outrage and a desire to laugh at the pettiness of it.
That would be unthinkable in Finland, say.Yet even in Britain, where the excesses at Westminster are provoking outrage, the correlation between public anger and corruption is imperfect.
The case had sparked international outrage, souring relations between Egypt and the US, and inflaming domestic fears over the potential for foreign funding to influence internal political affairs.
Faced with the thought of a 3-D "Casablanca," one is torn between outrage at such blind desecration and a sneaking wish to know — well, what the hell would it look like?
It reminds me of the difference in tactics between Outrage – fans of direct action against, for example, bishops – and Stonewall, keener to make quiet political alliances in the service of long-term change.
Both Latif and Uday are played by Dominic Cooper, whose performance is a lively, ferocious tour de force in a movie that lurches between outrage and titillation, turning Baghdad into the backdrop for something like a "Grand Theft Auto" video game.
Commentators veered between outrage at Strauss-Kahn being paraded in handcuffs after his arrest in May and admiration for the US justice system's dealing with the case rapidly and letting him go.
With murders up 10.8% nationwide last year, the biggest single-year jump in decades, some liberal analysts also now allow that there may be a connection between outrage over police killings of African Americans and a rise in violence.
Ah, this is what we expect on a Nicki Minaj album: crazed voices, declarations of superiority that vibrate with outrage, unexpected shifts between menacing calm and multi-layered chorales.
