Smarting from the accusation of blasphemy, he had provided the government with a sort of vindication shortly after his last acquittal.
But the occurrence of such a level is by no means always accompanied by haze or reduced visibility and still less by smarting eyes.
I think he was smarting from a castigation he got the other day.
If they are smarting under a grievance, how much more must ordinary people be smarting because of the grievances they feel?
Some of us are still smarting under the blow struck against the workers in 1931.
We have emerged after facing the people, a democracy that was smarting from cuts.
Without doubt, my backside is still smarting after 1997; that, however, is the nature of the democratic safety valve.
Clearly, they are still smarting from their defeat on both counts.
