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Is it the Internet as an escape valve for decades of pent-up rebellion against political correctness?

All that pent-up uncertainty—a “bonus,” by definition, is discretionary—creates paranoia pretty much all year.

Perhaps the words let loose the emotion, though of different kinds, pent up behind their silence.

It was when one of the table-legs overturned the swill-pail that the long pent-up storm burst in a torrent of invective.

Instead, therefore, of receiving her former lover with dangerous pent-up fires, Lilian now feels pity for him.

At last his pent-up affections gave way, and he sought his chamber and wept there in secret.

Another moment and he was in her arms, silent, speechless, with long arrears of pent-up emotion.