As a Manchu outsider himself, who mingled and negotiated with visitors, he felt in a precarious position among the Han Chinese (many of whom resented Manchu rule), and did nothing to restrain the angry public.Chonghou's equivocations were unhelpful.
But he was a true comic spirit, hard-wired to upend any kind of complacency, and having been stirred up by Lenny Bruce, he was no longer able to restrain his angrier self.
In particular, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, has restrained the angriest of the Shia militias.
When insulted, someone with strong moral discipline would not retaliate, but might become angry and restrain the expression of the anger; someone with strong forbearance would not become angry in the first place.
We can't restrain him when he is angry — and he has his hand on the nuclear button.' " Last week, about eight months into his Presidency, Donald Trump, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly, denounced Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea: "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission".
The basic logic was an updated, Putin-ified version of Richard Nixon's "madman" theory, which, as Nixon himself once described it, consists of sending the message "We can't restrain him when he's angry — and he has his hand on the nuclear button".
Nearly every journalist I spoke with mentioned a newly oppressive atmosphere online, in which people have begun to restrain their opinions for fear of provoking an angry mob.
McCluskey and Kenny are particularly angry about his willingness to endorse pay restrain in the public sector.
I've gotten angry myself over the failure of successive U.S. governments to restrain Israel's voracious settlement-building program.
Beijing's response to Trump was initially angry yet restrained.
