purple-faced

Attacks by the purple-faced ragings of a Limbaugh or Fox News sound like a person fading in the rear-view mirror, standing beside the highway shaking their fist, angry that you won't give them a ride.

Yes, it does (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

A European telephone bidder paid Christie's $28.6 million for Bacon's "Study for a Portrait," a 1953 work that depicts a purple-faced man in a business suit sitting in a throne-like chair amid a black void.

The British Are Coming (Back) Kelly Crow 2011

In the whiteout the world fell away until there was nothing but panting elk and purple-faced humans.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

A European telephone bidder paid Christie's $28.6 million for Bacon's "Study for a Portrait," a 1953 work that depicts a purple-faced man in a business suit sitting in a throne-like chair amid a black void.

The British Are Coming (Back) Kelly Crow 2011

I can still remember heaving myself over the line, sweating and gasping for air, purple-faced but proud, thinking: "Right, I've passed the start line, only 10 miles to go."www.victoriacoren.com

A cockle-warming tale of our times | Victoria Coren 2011

In the whiteout the world fell away until there was nothing but panting elk and purple-faced humans.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

In the whiteout the world fell away until there was nothing but panting elk and purple-faced humans.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

In the whiteout the world fell away until there was nothing but panting elk and purple-faced humans.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

When I recovered from that humiliating blow, I stood between the purple-faced Molly and the coughing Bob.

Sunny Gessy Alvarez 2012

As I pedal, smiling Colombians laugh at the tall gringo in the biggest, yellowest helmet they've ever seen, panting and purple-faced as the altitude takes its toll: Bogotá is the world's third-highest capital city, at 2,640m above sea level.

Bogotá's Ciclovia could teach Boris Johnson how to run a car-free capital 2010