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Example sentences for: apoplexy
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Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist proved that the Grouchoesque clown could be an anarchic avenger, driving fascists to apoplexy; and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties (1976), however gross and ham-handed, at least suggested that a concentration camp could function as a legitimate setting for a black-comic parable about a parasite's struggle to survive at all costs.
Many business people from Toronto have been driven close to apoplexy by the relaxed style of their Vancouver colleagues.
The much newer (1962) transitive verb access , as of a data base, bears no such oblique opprobrium in Oxford , even though it induces epidemic apoplexy among the self-appointed sentinels of linguistic correctness.
He presses down hard on the word "love," too hard, and it comes out in an apoplexy of twang.
This is, conversely, among the many reasons I could never be a good Republican--I just don't get the anti-Clinton apoplexy.