More than this, rage is a poisonous way of managing or regulating your relationship with the world.
For some Democrats, however, Cotton made his name in the Senate in a more personally poisonous way.
Owen Smith, shadow work and pensions secretary, spoke of "the poisonous way the Tories have continually talked down our social security system".
Web sites (the Pioneer Woman Sux), and even a fictional Twitter feed (Pie Near Woman), have sprung up to parody and critique her, some in poisonous and obsessive ways.
When she's just looking serious or being outright funny, she's magnetic; it's painful to see her resort to an expression whose purpose is to strip a person's face of subtlety and complexity, and reassure others, in a simplistically graphic way, that you're not in some way poisonous to them.
But things quickly escalate, and icy looks and poisonous whispers give way to forged memos, brutal humiliations and, finally, outright violence.
So, unless some genius of humane compromise can intervene, it's hard to see how this symbolic issue doesn't end up offending and hurting someone, with all the poisonous consequences, either way.
They won't hurt you — there is no current evidence that they are poisonous in any way.[5].
"It was undoubtedly difficult, given the politics of an election year — and in some ways particularly poisonous politics this year — for the Administration to agree to something that the N.R.A. was trumpeting was all about Hillary Clinton going to the United Nations to take away people's guns, when the treaty has nothing to do with that".
It's about time judicial systems globally got serious about wildlife crime, including the very dangerous trade in snakes, many of which are poisonous or in other ways deadly.
