How To Use Diatribe In A Sentence
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The book is a sustained diatribe questioning Churchill's actions from the early 1930s through 1941.
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He frequently used such commonplace devices as rhetorical questions and other characteristic elements of diatribes.
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Genevieve was aware only of the diatribe; she knew a flood of abuse was pouring from the lips of the Jewess, but she was too stunned to hear the details of the abuse.
Chapter 2
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Author, Alan Baxter, didn't go on his own diatribe, but he clued me in to an Obscenity Ruling by The Onion.
Archive 2010-05-01
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Launching into a diatribe against your rivals, or framing your case calmly while making it plain you understand the other fellow's points of view?
Times, Sunday Times
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He has been the subject of much criticism, several recall attempts and diatribes because of what is described as arbitrary and arrogant behavior, peremptory statements and decisions.
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For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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If the original film was something of a feminist diatribe, the undercurrent of the remake is plainly reactionary.
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Matt must be doing something right to incite such an ill-tempered F-word peppered diatribe.
Sound Politics: "Laramie Project:" Get Me Re-Write
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As well as frequent mentions of Club Med, Platform contains a few diatribes against the Guide du Routard, France's backpacker alternative to the Michelin guides.
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But, I'll go ahead and sink this stinky diatribe to the bottom of the briny depths.
Subhankar Banerjee: Youth Across North America Are Fighting For Their Future Climate
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Our ‘content’ should be at all times inept, obscure, bluff, diatribe, baloney, codswallop or at worst irrelevant.
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An opener can also inflame, which is what Gil Scott-Heron does with his diatribe against Ronald Reagan: "Well the first thing I'd like to say is/Mandate my ass!".
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He launched a bitter diatribe against the younger generation.
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He launched into a long diatribe
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When we suggest that without democracy there's a danger of dictatorship, he launches into a diatribe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steven L. Auslander, of Tucson, wrote, If someone consulting the dictionary is doing so in order to add words to a spoken diatribe, he or she may be described as a hunter-blatherer.
Word Fugitives
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Indeed, even people inclined to agree with him find his diatribe against originalism wanting.
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Irish directors are the root of the problem, he says: an expletive-laden diatribe against their complacency and unoriginality demonstrates the depth of his feeling on the subject.
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The threat was surprising less for its stridency, which is not unusual in diatribes against the South and the United States, than for its timing.
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But this is not a bitter diatribe about the male obsession with sex.
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Perhaps his own critique of three decades ago was simply what Green now says of Who Killed Homer? ” "the kind of antiestablishment diatribe that tends to surface every thirty years or so.
'Who Killed Homer?': An Exchange
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He wanted the reader to share his extraordinary intimations; this generosity gave even his scholarly dissertations and diatribes a certain spaciousness, a giddying other dimension.
More on Updike: His Own Elegies
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This diatribe is about adding some balance to the world of programming.
Hackety « Dyepot, Teapot
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May 31, 2006, 4: 35 pm cheapest cars to insure says: cheapest cars to insure diatribe dissension gentlest accomplices intercommunicate!
The Volokh Conspiracy » MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE CRISIS:
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Poems (after Poe, as a matter of course), political diatribes in Johnsonese periods in _De Bow's
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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A scribe is reading, from a papyrus scroll, a list of complaints against him, a diatribe of supposed crimes against his own empire.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Needless to say, nothing was officially published on modernism in those years, apart from paranoid diatribes in the press.
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For what it is, Todd's C-SPAN diatribe is scathing!
David Arquette? The subtle art of the C-SPAN breakup
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Readers may wish, however, that Shriver had cauterized some of their diatribes.
So Much for That: Summary and book reviews of So Much for That by Lionel Shriver.
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He often parodies famous quotes through his "Choose life" diatribes and comments regarding the non-existence of society.
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The fact that Skinner's verbal diatribes are accompanied by minimum technological enhancement only add to their power.
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Whether or not you agree with Blair's often irrational diatribes, he's arguably the most widely-read Australian blogger.
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I don't know what I'm looking for -- all I know is neither Lewis 'allegory or Pullman's diatribes against the bureaucratization of spirituality in formalized religion do it for me.
I think this is why I read the BBC...
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His diatribe comes at a time when French gastronomy is struggling to restore a reputation battered by claims that it has been surpassed by many other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's sort of set me up to brew two articles I have been dieing to produce without having to "repress" myself .. one on BANKING and one on Arctic Sovereignty .. which are both diatribes REALLY against insitutionalized violence.
Using and Banning Handles and Pseudonyms on OpEdNews
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They rounded off with a scabby diatribe against the black choir in the Seventh Day Adventist Church whose voices lit the evenings.
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During the nearly two-hour intermissionless talk -- for which "diatribe" mightn't be a misnomer -- technology-worshiping Daisey does acknowledge that Jobs was "the only hero I ever had.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple
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The book is a diatribe against the academic left.
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If Carlyle's criticism curdled into diatribes of denunciation, Comte's calcified into the dogmatism of a cult.
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He launched a bitter diatribe against the younger generation.
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As we have stated in this column before, it is important that we foster a spirit of dialogue in the politics of this country, diatribes of invectives will not take Zambia anywhere.
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I do not personally know any of the recipients of your attacks, yet I seem to find myself in agreement with some who did bother to respond to your selfish and misguided diatribes.
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When I used to meet him regularly outside the Brompton Oratory after his Sunday devotions, it took little prompting to goad him into a diatribe against his latest enemy.
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Simply put, like whoever posted the diatribe "Traitors to Democracy, Traitors to America, Enemies of Democracy," you show your kinship to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; desirousness of murdering, oops, I should say liberating with extreme prejudice those who are "contumacious" of your socialist/fascist agenda.
Wishing Limbaugh Dead except for the Sarah Factor
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In contrast to the al-Manar report, this diatribe includes such absurd and provocative anti-Semitic statements as "the Jews knew and were prewarned" about 9/11.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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His vitriolic diatribes were indeed difficult for those of us in attendance to stomach.
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By this point in the movie, Banek can only laugh with caustic irony at this diatribe.
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His diatribes preserve the syntax of logical argument but are devoid of sense, which I think is symptomatic of a form of mental illness.
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The difference is that everybody with an iota of intelligence understands and recognises political diatribe when it comes from politicians.
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You may be expecting a bleeding-heart-liberal diatribe against all imprisonment: wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though her collections tend to include a few pairs of flats and some more mid-range platforms, the question of whether Ms. Skovgaard herself ever wears anything less dramatic than her classic, five-inch platform wedges which elevate her to Amazonian heights, at nearly two meters brings on a momentary diatribe against the kitten heel: It just looks bloody wrong, in my opinion.
There's No Business Like Shoe Business
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And lo and behold … Kai_Wolf pops up in Pavlovian fashion, unleashing a male-genital-focussed diatribe against Dion.
Cons Accept Manley Report, Now Up To Libs – Update « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The letters pages of newspapers are thrang with diatribes on both sides.
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When others were saluting Boise State's top-five preseason college-football ranking last August, sanctimoniously cheering the possibility of a small school's reaching the title game, we penned a diatribe headlined "The Boise State Nightmare.
Honk If You Had This Game in Your Bracket
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My whole diatribe against the kid being a perv is the fact that he cannot help himself when it comes to showing restraint in using MY computer to look up porn.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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Such a diatribe notwithstanding, what is of more significance in our context is Weber's obsession with a liberal characterology and civic education.
Asthmatic
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The ratio of insightful comment to shrill diatribe is about one in ten.
Daniel Cubias: The Skill that Every Job Requires?
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Their orators grew magniloquent over its tyrannical oppression; the Southern press overflowed with that marvellous exuberance of diatribe of which they are the acknowledged masters -- to all of which the complaisant North gave a ready and subservient concurrence, until the very name reeked in the public mind with infamous associations and degrading ideas.
Bricks without Straw A Novel
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Rebecca West filled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon with brilliant speeches and diatribes by a polyglot cast of characters, and Furst has a similar cacophony of speakers analyzing every detail of the political situation.
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Your diatribe is filled with so many distortions that I will not even attempt to refute them.
Think Progress » 170 House Republicans rebuff Steele by voting to ban RNC’s ‘Census’ mailer.
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The model is basically the same: hip-hop and disco-informed dance tunes undercut with punk rock adrenaline levels and post-feminist diatribes.
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His need for approval unassuaged by the giant success of "" Titanic, '' Cameron wrote a diatribe in the March 28 Los Angeles Times attacking its movie critic, Kenneth Turan.
The Court Of King Jim
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With his twisted diatribe on this mind-bending horror, Mr. Robertson has has relieved whatever passes for a conscience and now feels free to go on with his life.
Think Progress » Despite controversy over Haiti, Robertson still welcome at McDonnell’s inauguration prayer breakfast.
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Reading some of his anti-Liberal Party diatribes could make you think he's been following today's current sponsorship scandal.
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After questioning him, he launched into a diatribe of self-recrimination.
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It's time for you to refrain from bitter diatribe and put "fannies in the seats" as articles like this stir the imagination.
The Wire: David Petzal Tracks a Wounded Cape Buffalo
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It sets me apart while it declares that I'm a member of a group - and I guess that the end point of this diatribe is as follows: these days, (a).
Body words
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His bellowed anti-Europe diatribes breathe the monomania that still sets the conference afire.
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They should be able to make the kind of radical, irreverent cinema that Anderson himself created in a biting, bilious state of the nation diatribe such as Britannia Hospital.
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We have the U.N. in New York for that and don't need a mini-me in lower Manhattan echoing their diatribes.
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The curators try to make up by instead offering us'a long diatribe through the brain '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Certainly the right has built a vast information infrastructure, but a majority Americans are not falling for their diatribes.
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The model is basically the same: hip-hop and disco-informed dance tunes undercut with punk rock adrenaline levels and post-feminist diatribes.
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No, what incites this diatribe is those four words of putative explanation: '' I made a mistake. ''
Sunday Reading
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This sad, pitiful person abounds in nonsensical, uniformed diatribes.
Palin pokes fun at William Shatner
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Hey, taihoa, easily embarrassed people—I'm not going on another diatribe.
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When he launched into a diatribe about the influence of romance books on impressionable minds, one female member of the audience had had enough.
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Then, in a later thread, which might describe insurgents blowing something up in Iraq, they again continue their diatribe that all Muslims and Arabs are animals and should be killed or 'nuked'.
The Fight over the Iraq vote and the strange hypocrisy of the American Right regarding Iraq
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My diary is full of diatribes against the childishness, laziness, conceit or inefficiency of others.
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It's almost enough to warrant a splenetic, Burchill-esque diatribe against contemporary gay social mores - full of sweeping generalisations and gleeful scatter-shot vitriol.
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His impassioned diatribes are laced with the queasy petulance of someone who already knows he's lost the fight, going to the mat with a whine instead of a real donnybrook.
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The writer of this diatribe is obviously ignorant of the differences between drag queens, transvestites and transsexuals.
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In his diatribe against the companies, which he described as funded by the American government, he said they were responsible for a litany of bloody crimes against the Afghan people.
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Hopefully those discussions needn't include hateful diatribes against those who love in ways your ideology frowns upon.
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Although Canzano's diatribe is not really worthy of a response, I've blacked out the child's face on this blog.
Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives
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Besides, most newspapers need some progressive viewpoints thrown into the mix - the letters to the editor pages generally contain mostly diatribes by some of the most ill-informed, preachifying yokels one can find short of sitting in my neighbor's living room! by
OpEdNews - Diary: I Was Published in the MSM
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Normally bad reviews are based on hatred (i.e. a critic will hate the swearing in my books so much they launch into an evangelical diatribe!) or jealousy, because the critic is an unpublished SF author who obviously considers their own unpublished work superior.
INTERVIEW: Andy Remic
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They lived in a commune, dressed in black and sang ferocious punk rock diatribes against society's values and institutions.
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If you come across a reference to "the rabblement of lemmings" (a category that includes Marxists and feminists and anyone else who reads ideologically), get ready to skim over many patches of screechy diatribe.
Reading Against the Clock: Belated Bloom Suffers Nobly
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Dose's continuous incoherent diatribe evokes in turn the babble of a madman, the discourse of a preacher or the conversation of a child.
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The hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, devoted the segment in question to a vicious diatribe against transgender children, some as young as five, focusing in particular on the case of one Omaha family raising a gender dysphoric child, and their decision to support her transition from male to female.
Friday!
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Case in point concerning Democratic trolls: "jacksmith" had reposted the same lengthy diatribes against Barack Obama under several different articles.
Patrolling for Trolls
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When I called him to set up our meeting he quickly launched into a diatribe against the British press.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like Ronald Reagan, their lifeboat is finding some plutocrat who will give them crumbs in exchange for endless diatribes re how the rich DESERVE to be rich.
Matthew Yglesias » Cutting and Running
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An American I am glad to see you were joking, but if you read the post above here from the one known as the fragrant one, you will see how easy it is to become disgusted by some other remarks,. nothing to do with politics or solutions just plain hateful diatribe against a man she does not know - This column allows almost anything to be said in the interest of free speech but sometimes people like you and myself become the victims of return invective from other innocents because of this kind of "behaviour
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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She finished off her diatribe by condemning the previous day's protest by workers and farmers.
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Angela Lansbury's 1962 villain was an ice queen but Meryl Streep turns her into a barely leashed neurotic who escalates hissy fits into diatribes.
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This diatribe is about companies with lousy customer service.
Dealer's Take: Scott Moss on Lousy Customer Service
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After a long diatribe, Noah excoriated me: ‘How can you bring such a phony to speak to your class?’
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He launched into a long diatribe; She plunged into a dangerous adventure.
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Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.
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His last letter turned into another of his lengthy diatribes about Bradford Council, even though I don't believe I had referred to that body in my previous letter.
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So, what does all of this have to do with my starting diatribe about the term ontology?
AI3:::Adaptive Information
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Chris King's diatribe about integrated headsets on his web site makes the point that Cane Creek-type bearings are very free to move around in the head-tube cups, and this movement can cause a click or rap.
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You may be expecting a bleeding-heart-liberal diatribe against all imprisonment: wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ghost of his splits (band and marriage) hang over Bigger than Blue, but it never slips into woebegone narratives or diatribes.
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As it's already been pointed out, this latest diatribe is even less logical than his previous rants.
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This alacrity was not consistent with their earlier diatribes against military despotism; but the fact was that since "lyddite" had been found out the experts were chary of making it, and the public still more chary of drinking it.
The Siege of Kimberley
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With that in the background, Myley Cyrus has launched an attack against peope who slag others online, and given her a huge popularity with teenage girls, her mini-diatribe is likely do some good.
Miley Cyrus tweets on cyber-bullies
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Must be a slow news day, to hear him yatter on in his nonsensical, poorly researched diatribe.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Instead of long explanatory diatribes on the reason for doing, or being, it spits out witty one-liners that cut the legs off apathy.
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As political diatribes go, the messages criticizing the two county commissioners were pretty mild.
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Yet, this middle section is a slog, frankly (reminiscent of the author's long-winded diatribes in his other books).
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His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant.
