apoplexy

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.

It tended to be Thorgerson, by all accounts a stubborn genius, driving the record executives to apoplexy.

“You’re going to pop an artery and give yourself an apoplexy!”

Biden’s declaration, coming just a week before Obama was to launch his reelection campaign, sent the president’s advisers into apoplexy.

Tudyk deftly dispenses both deadpan stares and comic apoplexy, and through the first half of its initial season, the show was consistently clever and astringently funny.