【单选题】

After a while, his anger abated, he stopped hurling ------- and, as he often did after such an outburst, became quite -------.
A．(A) floridities ... unassuming

B．(B) imprecations ... remorseful
C．(C) explications ... rueful
D．(D) epigrams... meek
E．(E) hyperbole... choleric