"If I see somebody who is throwing their life away with both hands and is raging around and destroying their family, I can't understand that person," he said.
Take the current debate raging around pension reform.
She seems unflustered by the tempests raging around her.
It was Crosby's friend Neil Young who proved the most astute observer of the drug culture raging around him.
Battles between Israeli tanks and Palestinian sharpshooters were raging around Jerusalem, yet his friend was afraid to visit sleepy Amman?
What those who have stayed behind now think of the war raging around them remains difficult to gauge.
She refused, he said, and ended up raging around a locked ward defecating on herself and her bed.
"I barely realized that there was a financial crisis raging around me," he said at a news conference in April.
Captives from the firefight still raging around them had given up their boss, the new arrivals were told.
Particularly fierce arguments are raging around the Department for Transport (DfT), which must make cuts of 25% or more in its budget.
It is a sentiment shared by most Palestinians, preoccupied more by the war raging around them than by the intrigues of government in Ramallah.
