Sentence examples for repressed anger from inspiring English sources

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Repressed anger, huh?

Swift does a fine job of teasing out their human entanglements; their conflicts, repressed anger and regrets.

Blackout at Scotland's big literary awards: "A blithe, carry-on-regardless mood darkened into embarrassment and repressed anger.

He argues that repressed anger has led the English to invent a "bewildering number of games" and goaded them into finding a productive outlet in "cataloging, litigating and ordering the natural world".

It was about alienated voters, fractured communities, under-resourced public services, failing schools and hospitals, low wages and zero-hours contracts – and the seething, hitherto repressed anger of so many people who feel they have been left behind.

By and large, they have struggled to do this, but the effort has fuelled much repressed anger and, as unacceptable as the English find it to express such genuine feelings, I am not sure they can be contained for another 12 years.

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So if we repress anger or pretend it isn't there then all these other feelings get repressed and ignored as well.

Nor is kindness about pretending to care for someone all the while repressing anger or contempt; hiding our rage or frustration behind false pleasantries is not kindness.

In 2010, the European Journal of Pain reported a study comparing female fibromyalgia sufferers who expressed anger, versus those who repressed their anger.

The one that finally gave Kubrick pause, she recalled, was: "She perfectly repressed her anger".

The strategy that for so long successfully repressed public anger and sapped people's will to rebel was no longer working.

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