apoplexy
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It’s hard to pin down the moment in “Oh, Mary!,” a comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, that will send Lincoln scholars and purists into apoplexy.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
The ease with which Levin moves from apoplexy to calm tells me that the rage is a rhetorical flourish that substitutes for the logic his arguments lack.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2020
“If you’re going to dismiss everything as a hoax, you’d better have something clear to replace it,” he said, his voice rising toward apoplexy.
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2018
Just as every generation prepares to hand the keys over to the next, its more bitter and resentful members demonstrate the apocalyptic apoplexy of self-centered illusion.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2016
The doctor said it was an apoplexy brought on by the fire.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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