That — like the black power salutes 5 from the podium that scandalised the 1968 Olympics — might have played into the hands of political opponents.
Readers and some critics were scandalised by the story of a young, plain governess who falls in love with her Byronic employer, unaware that he already has a mad wife incarcerated in the attic.
"I don't see why anyone should be scandalised," she told journalists this week.
Some in France are scandalised that the American judicial system could wreck the professional life of a man convicted of no crime.
Years ago, my mother returned from a parents' evening at my school faintly scandalised.
' yelled Harry, ignoring the scandalised faces and disapproving mutterings of the portraits on the walls. 'It's OK: for Snape to hate my dad, But it's not OK for Sirius to hate Kreacher?
But a televised hug he gave Mr Obama early last year at a rally in support of the stimulus bill scandalised conservatives.
But instead of sighs and murmurs of approval that might have greeted such a sight at the playhouse, this one provoked scandalised gasps followed by brittle, breath-baited silence.
