His cartoon world, like that of The Masses, was almost entirely urban, but he was one of the first of a generally imperturbable type of American cartoonist, whose view is amused rather than aroused.
"I was cross rather than aroused by the chief's remarks," he wrote, in "Long Walk to Freedom," his autobiography, "dismissing his words as the abusive comments of an ignorant man who was unable to appreciate the value of the education and benefits that the white man had brought to our country".
Your neediness may result in your partner feeling used rather than aroused.
Rather than remind Democrats of what could have been, rather than arouse any sense of anger or regret, they seemed intent on hiding him.
Critic Ruth Miller claimed that Crane wrote "an intellectual poetry rather than a poetry that evokes feeling, a poetry that stimulates the mind rather than arouses the heart".
Even his much-heralded health care reform ("Obamacare"), which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will leave 30 million Americans without health insurance in 2022, was constrained from the beginning by his strategy of reaching secret deals with the pharmaceutical and hospital industries rather than risk arousing their opposition[5].
Predicated on the on the notion that interoceptive information has greater salience when processing ambiguous (rather than intrinsically arousing) stimuli, we hypothesised that this would enable us to test for a comparator function of insula cortex in responding to mismatches in cognitive and interoceptive representations of physiological state, even at conditions of low bodily arousal.
Notice how much the poem depends on the use of the word "different," rather than, say, "aroused" or "excited" or "intrigued".
Rather than address the concerns aroused by Snowden's leaks directly, some commentators have been desperate to change the subject by invoking terrorism and attempting to paint journalists from the Guardian and the New York Times as irresponsible.
