Ozon, in his camera movements as in his editing, is no less scrupulous and serene, and, to that extent, he is cleaving to a distinguished French tradition: the fine art of outraging an audience by refusing to be outrageous, however startling your subject matter.
Having been forced into one policy change by Mr Souter and other opponents, ministers do not want to be seen to be making another for fear of outraging the liberal lobby they originally wanted to please.
Where Eliot was the famous defender of tradition, order and civilised taste, the crux of Groucho's humour was flouting tradition, fomenting chaos and outraging taste.
Then came a glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast during last year's Super Bowl, outraging some viewers.
Seeking a society free of religious and ethnic divisions, he removed many of Menilek's governors and integrated Muslims into the administration, outraging Ethiopia's Christian ruling class.
Boris Johnson last night risked outraging Ukip supporters by describing would-be defectors as people who might inflict "barely credible" injuries on themselves by "vacuum cleaner abuse".
Last night Mr Johnson risked outraging Ukip supporters with a jibe that would-be defectors were people who might inflict "barely credible" injuries on themselves by "vacuum cleaner abuse".
The American filmmaker Walt Disney's celebrated Fantasia (1940) adapted the technique of the animated cartoon to illustrate a sequence of musical classics, outraging some people because the visual relationships were held to be irrelevant to the music but continuing to the present to entertain audiences, especially young ones, on an international scale.
Certainly, Thomas seems to relish outraging his ideological adversaries.
Only in France could you record a reggae version of your national anthem, outraging upright citizens, and then, at your death, be compared to Baudelaire by the President.
By highlighting spectacular acts of kleptocracy, doesn't the Chinese President run the risk of outraging the public more than satisfying it?
