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M. de Mauves resisted, he protested that he was d'une humeur massacrante; but at last he allowed himself to be drawn to his feet and stood looking awkwardly -- awkwardly for M. de Mauves -- at Longmore.
Madame De Mauves Henry James 1879
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This play on the expression être d'une humeur massacrante-roughly, "angry enough to kill" - concerns the distemper of Nicolas Sarkozy over a certain rumeur massacrante ( "foul rumor") swirling around the French president's two-year marriage to former supermodel Carla Bruni.
The New Republic - All Feed Matthew Kaminski 2010
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