choler

Example Sentences

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Jung’s interpolations are perhaps an improvement on the real first lines — an elaborate play on “collier” and “choler” — though specificity of acting and direction would have put the language across.

From New York Times

Watson is in a perpetual state of stiff-necked choler tinged with snobbery — “I am better educated, more wealthy and stronger than you are,” he tells Bea, who is unmoved.

From Los Angeles Times

Rockin’ the Suburbs offered no respite as it detailed the silent, hopeless choler of the human trash heap.

From The Guardian

In that memoir, Wideman struggles with an inchoate choler to reconcile the divergent paths of him as an accomplished author and his younger brother, Robby, sentenced to life in prison for murder.

From Los Angeles Times

Anger would be inappropriate when discussing politics: how would one ever recover from the choler of allowing emotion to seep into an analysis of the actions of those who rule us?

From Forbes