" But you would think, wouldn't you, " he erupted suddenly, pulling the letter back out of his pocket, " that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt? "
As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
But then, as if out of nowhere, a technological revolution in the oil and gas industry beginning in Texas started to quickly change everything, just like it had originally done a century previously back in 1901.
The anger that had just flared so unexpectedly still blazed inside him, and the vision of Ron and Hermione's shocked faces afforded him a sense of deep satisfaction.
This expression is often used to describe a sudden outburst similar to the lid of a soda where someone flips their mind and loses control of their emotions.
Road rage, simply put, is a sudden burst of anger that motorists experience when they feel angered by something another driver, cyclist or pedestrian has done.
As if the sudden explosion of kinetic energy forces the mental faculties to accelerate until the perception of the exterior world goes into slow motion.