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  • Tactically, it often helps to approach them with a controlledly livid “Look, I know this is not your fault, but your company has done X Y and Z which have me supremely pissed off.”

    How to handle an ass (like me) « BuzzMachine 2009

  • He was in a state of suppressed excitement and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of

    War and Peace 2003

  • What was left of his smile faded, and he became controlledly rational.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • He was in a state of suppressed excitement and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of a long-awaited moment.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

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