apoplexy
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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
A few days after hearing about Mr. Pecker’s apoplexy, we were approached, verbally at first, with an offer.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2019
“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
In 1954, the Supreme Court’s school desegregation decision threw Southern segregationists into political apoplexy.
From New York Times • May 19, 2017
He looked, now, as if he bordered on apoplexy.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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