Anger
Mobilized objection—heat and pressure toward obstruction, harm, or unfairness.
44 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Anger sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Angerfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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44 tagged passages
- GCM-RC-050From The Glass Castle: A Memoir (2005)
There was a lot of gold in Battle Mountain, but it was trapped in the ore. It was not like there were gold nuggets lying around for the Prospector to sort through. He was perfecting a technique by which the gold could b…
- KWM-RC-059From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
She actually wobbled around on the floor and picked up shards of the cups and cried, “Oh, Momma. Oh, dear Gawd. It's Momma's china from Virginia. Oh, Momma, I sorry.” Miss Glory came running in from the yard and the wom…
- HCC-RC-4239From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The "Short Confession" contains no argument, but the strongest possible reaffirmation of his faith in the real pres-ence, and a declaration of his total and final separation from the Sacramentarians and their doctrine, …
- D2-RC-096From Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2014)
“If it were up to me, if I had the choice, I would not have a candy wall and I would just get paid a little bit more money instead. You see what I mean?” They don’t. “Because I have kids, right? I can’t bring home a hug…
- SWLT-RC-701From The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction) (2016)
I am not alluding to Makaroff and other officers—all these men knew what they were doing, and wherefore, and they voluntarily, for personal advantage, for ambition, did as they did, disguising themselves in pretended pa…
- PD-RC-012From The Principle of Desire (2013)
“You know what? It’s fine,” he’d told her—in full Master mode, as though his say in the matter was final and all that counted. “Do what you need to do while I’m gone. But when I come back, I expect you to have this fool…
- TCM-RC-182From Tropic of Cancer (1934)
“My God!” she was yelling, “where is that string? My God! I can’t find the string!” “Did you look under the bed?” said Fillmore. Finally she quieted down. But only for a few minutes. The next thing was: “My God! I’m ble…
- HPS-RC-054From How Propaganda Works (2015)
Crack cocaine is a degraded form of the drug favored by wealthy elite in cities. Yet during the “drug war” in the 1980s and 1990s, politicians successfully argued for 100–1 sentencing disparities between the degraded fo…
- CIOH-RC-002From Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out (2014)
Any meaningful investigation into the nature of cults must forego specific beliefs and instead focus on the practices that make a group or relationship harmful. Whatever the cult, there is almost always sustained decept…
- CT-RC-134From The Canterbury Tales (2009)
‘That wasn’t the end of it. Oh no. Jankyn told me about another Roman of old times, Latumyus, who complained to a friend of his that in his garden there grew a tree of sorrow. Apparently, three of his wives had hanged t…
- EDCD-RC-248From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)
"The Catholics," says the _Quarterly Review_ for January, 1873, pp. 181-2, "wherever they are numerous and powerful in a Protestant nation, _compel_ (sic) as it were by a law of their being, that nation to treat them wi…
- HRBS-RC-110From How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian (2015)
was, and is not, and is about to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to destruction” (17:8), but in its place comes returning Christ, “who is and who was and who is to come” (1:4, 8; also see 4:8). Not Nero but Christ…
- SOPP-RC-123From The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (2020)
The power of the progress narrative was even more evident on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, when the Court handed down its next decision of the week in Shelby County v. Holder, which undid significant parts of the Voting Right…
- DGB-RC-152From The Decameron (1353)
The woman’s eyes filled with tears, and she said: ‘It’s this villain of a man, who returns home drunk of an evening, or else he falls asleep in some tavern or other and then comes back at this hour. I’ve put up with it …
- SSS-RC-542From The Second Sex (1949)
Very often, the wife persists in her pretense through morality, hypocrisy, pride, or timidity. “Often, an aversion for the dear husband will go unnoticed for a whole life: it is called melancholia or some other name,” s…
- UBH-RC-116From Under the Banner of Heaven (2003)
The departure of his wife and their six children to a distant corner of the nation gnawed at him day and night. Over time his hurt was transformed into an implacable rage, and most of that anger was directed at the thre…
- WOF-RC-210From White Oleander (1999)
“Love me, devushka , for we all going to die.” Finally, I got a knee up and when he shifted I hit him with my drawing board and slid out of bed. In the living room, most of the people were gone. Natalia was dancing by h…
- DMBT-RC-345From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)
Having taken France from Philippe le Bel, Boniface VIII wrote this to Albert of Austria: “We donate to you, in the plentitude of our power, the kingdom of France, which belongs of right to the Emperors of the West.” So …
- EEB-RC-121From Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women (Erotic Fiction) (2006)
Have you ever noticed, for instance, how women with a strong maternal instinct tend to lose other aspects of their personalities upon having a child? Either from within herself or from without, I truly know not which, s…
- DMBT-RC-160From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)
The Egyptians left their psychism in their tombs, the Hebrews in their tomes. For nearly two thousand years they’ve cast a spell over the human mind; like the Trilby of fiction, it cannot think aside from this literary …