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Surely this "really great guy," the best boss you've ever had, could not be so unreasonable--or thin-skinned--as to take umbrage at your request for a whistle-free workplace.
He is the master of umbrage.
But since it meandered erratically and erroneously for more than half of its length through the realm of semantics, I of course took both an interest and umbrage.
Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."
Bush took umbrage, saying he had to attend a dinner held in honor of his wife, Laura, and that his family came first.