How To Use Invective In A Sentence
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By 19th-c. standards our political invective is embarrassingly lame.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
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In orations of praise, and in invectives, the fancy is predominant, because the design is not truth, but to honour or dishonour, which is done by noble or by vile comparisons.
Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
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The satire is so laden with invective and is so dense that I wish there was an annotated version of this book to read which would make it much easier to read.
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The wilful Welshman was quick to test his new manager, reacting to that substitution at The Valley with a stream of invective.
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If only our leaders could direct similar invective towards gobby, sanctimonious pop stars.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it's true that tub-thumpers looking for explicit invectives against the former Mayor will want to take their ire elsewhere.
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There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible.
Henrik Ibsen
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There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Essays and Tales
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Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability.
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The point was the inventive richness of the language, the splendour of the vocabulary, the unstaunchable flow of imagination and invective. . .
So No More He'll Go A-Roving
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John is old and waiting to die but the prospect of death hasn't dulled his appetite for invective or his irreverence for the great and the good.
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Enough off-topic puns and invective, and one can get the entire thread to circumnavigate its original topic or purpose for being.
Matthew Yglesias » The Low Bar
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Finally, while invective is common in the political arena, Stefan's wife and personal life are clearly out of bounds, and especially with respect to vicious personal and racist remarks.
Sound Politics: Michael Hood: Seattle's most chronically wrong journalist
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Soccer worldwide makes a science of invective against match officials after any game turning decision goes against them.
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We've all hurled invective into voicemail's dead ears as it runs through its unholy litanies.
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As soon as the meeting was over, they contacted reporters with near-verbatim accounts of the participants' behavior in a frantic series of accusations and denials, spiced with dollops of invective.
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The invective I saw on these threads particularly from the one I referred to as the fragrant one (now disappeared) was never true, nor were her accusations, but you were a different story - never rude, a sensible and balanced lady but totally appalled by the spectre of an Obama presidency - what I am really asking you is why you are so out of sync with the mass of intelligent Americans thatI have spoken to or heard.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Rarely have I read a more bitter, laudably splenetic piece of invective.
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Pure invective, unmitigated by any sophistication, subtlety or decorum.
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Truly ugly, invective is directed at Obama too, but as the winner it is incumbent on him to reach out to Clinton supporters.
Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'
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He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality.
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The campaigners' invective is obviously directed at the wrong target.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wrote earlier that one of the best uses of invective is to frame wit - and that's where I think the article is deficient.
Ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical
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Even if they did, we should not be justified in taking situationally specific invective at face value.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It didn't help, of course, not really, but at least there were no innocent bystanders around to suffer my invective.
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After reading your invective harangue I've only one question: What would you know of polite circles?
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Even the thought of it unleashes a stream of invective.
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As is the custom at the Star Tribune, the editorial was long on invective and short on facts.
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Both load up their arguments with gobs of personal invective, which also makes me suspicious of their arguments.
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The appointed writer for the day polishes them up with the appropriate invective and posts them.
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The first one, where you aren't supposed to call, write, or even breathe in the direction of Snark Central lest we hurl invectives upon your noggin is the query/submission/are we right for each other process.
Archive 2006-03-12
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The system of Egba 'clanship' is a favourite, sometimes an engrossing, topic for invective with the local press, who characterise this worst species of 'trades-union,' founded upon intimidation and something worse, as the 'Aku tyranny' and the 'Aku
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
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Any political figure is used to criticism and should be immune from personal invective.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the tenth century," according to Dufour (_Histoire de la Prostitution_, vol. VI., p. 11), "shoes _a la poulaine_, with a claw or beak, pursued for more than four centuries by the anathemas of popes and the invectives of preachers, were always regarded by mediæval casuists as the most abominable emblems of immodesty.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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The thing about Jo, and she's so graceful with it, is that she gets more bile and invective than any other comic because she's a woman.
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It is wonderful that any man could have, in the space of eight days, written, with his own hand, so fiery an invective, so compelling of the attention of any reader, so completely annihilative of his antagonist's pretensions and contentions, so convincingly establishing his own: to have made of it, in the course of composition so rapid and totally unrevised, such a jewel of
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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He had the gift of the public gab, and was never at a loss for a rabble-rousing piece of personal invective.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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As a consequence, this cultural connectedness provides a shield from the emotional invective that results from living in a racist society.
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There's a long road ahead of us, and invective at this stage doesn't help us in any way.
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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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More often than not, the retort to this rhetorical question involves obscene invective, drawn from the vulgar nomenclature regarding genitalia and the act of coition.
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The invective is "some of the worst I've ever seen," Superintendent Dennis Carlson said.
Suicide Surge: Schools Confront Anti-Gay Bullying
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Satire finally came to the fore in American political life, unleashing a tsunami of politically-charged ridicule and invective that has changed the republic forever.
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Where they "bantered," cajoled, and sneered, arousing a very mild irritation, Swift's scornful invective, and biting satire silenced into fear the enemies of the Queen's chosen ministers.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
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I’m rather fond of old-fashioned invective in repartee: but I don’t accuse folks of lying, unless I can prove it.
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure
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Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
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He had expected criticism but not the invective which greeted his proposal.
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As a West Ham fan, I am aware of the ribaldry, invective and outright abuse this statement leaves me open to, but unless and until we qualify, that is my position.
Liverpool's European Losers Cup outing is enough to make ad men mad | Martin Kelner
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Certainly, their vocal attributes remain unimpaired, judging by the steady stream of invective directed at all persons perceived as the opposition.
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How intolerant not to appreciate being called "victim" and "potato", standard invectives patriotic German Muslims are fond of hurling toward their autochthonal compatriots.
The Editrix' Roncesvalles
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Jim Moore, “The mission of the Palin candidacy is to inject sarcasm, hate, poisonous invective into the US Presidential Campaign.”
Discourse.net: Friday McBush/McSame Bashing
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He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality.
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The political invective is turning ugly after the promise of hope and change.
Times, Sunday Times
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In keeping with the theme of "South Florida weather is seriously screwed up and makes our voting system look organized and intelligent," however, the only actual rain we have seen here is the rain of invective from me against the defogger thing for my face mask, which is not working, unless fog was intended to appear on the face mask anyway, in which case, we're on track!
Keys trip, Day Three
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Most of his sharpest invective is directed against his wife's mother, who did not want her to marry into bohemian squalor.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
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Notice his MO - laugh at the question, demean the questioner, shout invective, back his position with " I have studied", and then shut it down without providing any evidence from his extensive research.
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In today's politics it is becoming a bit more difficult as people who ought to give guidance to political upstarts are themselves in front hurling invectives.
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The gesture infuriated him and he let out a stream of invective.
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Sure, sometimes the invective is a tad over the top, but I think the trolls just go away from that thinking they really got someone wound up and spinning.
Think Progress » GOP plans on reintroducing legislation to ban and deport immigrants from ‘terrorist’ countries.
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These two notions cause an escalatory diplomatic blow and counterblow of name-calling and invective, as witnessed in the months before the outbreak of war in late March 2003.
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It didn't help, of course, not really, but at least there were no innocent bystanders around to suffer my invective.
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The day when Paralympians are protected from personal invective is the day we have gone back to the saccharine dangers of the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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All it took was one open-ended question about Android to unleash a fusillade of anti-Google invective.
In the Plex
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A brush dripping paint; a speech that dripped invective.
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A stream of invective from some sectors of the press continues to assail the government.
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Simic has also written, in a 1995 essay called “In Praise of Invective,” these ringing words: “There are moments in life when true invective is called for, when there comes an absolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to denounce, mock, vituperate, lash out, rail at in the strongest possible language.”
Charles Simic -- New Poet Laureate
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your invectives scorched the community
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With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely, invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides; but it is only desired to restrain the employment of them against the prevailing opinion: against the unprevailing they may not only be used without general disapproval, but will be likely to obtain for him who uses them the praise of honest zeal and righteous indignation.
On Liberty
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It is pretended, that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures.
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What one needs in journalism is plenty of forthright, candid opinion, good old-fashioned invective, frolics and fun.
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The shrieky commentator who has called Lynch every name in the book in a ceaseless spew of invective for the last year and a half?
Archive 2009-09-01
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De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium, atque excellentia Verbi Dei, declamatio invectiva/On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Arts and Sciences: An Invective Declamation
Loss of Faith
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It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
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He turned his attention to abuses in Church and State, which he lashed with caustic satire, conveyed in short doggerel rhyming lines peculiar to himself, in which jokes, slang, invectives, and Latin quotations rush out pell-mell.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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She didn't understand this so hurled another stream of invective at me.
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Rarely have I read a more bitter, laudably splenetic piece of invective.
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It appeared, however, as if she herself had acquired a unique immunity to invective and insult so long as she could lay her hands on something to stitch.
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The speaker made full use of his arsenal of invective.
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On Witte's tongue the phrase "incredibly well-bred man," which he used to describe the youthful Nicholas, became cutting invective.
A Statesman For the Czar
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As soon as the meeting was over, the respective plenipotentiaries contacted reporters with near-verbatim accounts of the participants' behavior in a frantic series of accusations and denials, spiced with dollops of invective.
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The manager spread his anger freely, encompassing the small number of fans who aimed invective at the dugout on Tuesday night.
Times, Sunday Times
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They sit on their Jabba sized behinds all day filling blogs and boards with their invective with one beady eye trained on Fox News.
Will Matt Damon's politics cost him at the box-office? | EW.com
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He was moving, Teucer complained, like a rabid dog, not knowing where to bite next, as a Mesopotamian saying had it—dogs were the favorite animal for insults in Bronze Age invective.
The Trojan War
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afire with annihilating invective
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The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described as ‘occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.’
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The gesture infuriated him and he let out a stream of invective.
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But, surprisingly for a writer of his resourcefulness, most of the invective is monotonously uninventive.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the invective directed at Zhu by soccer fans on major websites was even more fierce.
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She is perpetually and dangerously angry, bluntly refusing - although employed in a factotum capacity - to perform many of the chores she is given, often colouring her refusal with some venomous invective.
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It is a long way from the plaints of George Horton to the invectives of Claude McKay, from the obviousness of Frances Harper to the complexness of Anne Spencer.
Preface
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The poem contains more than one "flyting" -- to use the Scottish term -- and the high war of words between Satan and Abdiel in heaven, or between Satan and Gabriel on earth, could not have been handled save by a master of all the weapons of verbal fence and all the devices of wounding invective.
Milton
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It is rather, we say, on account of such lines as these (no picture of tropical loveliness ever surpassed, in our opinion, the description printed in italics) that we admire "Locksley Hall," than on account of the troubled passions which it embodies; knowing as we do, that poetry has nobler offices to perform than to fulmine forth fierce and sarcastic invectives against the head of a jilt; and if, as Mr Tennyson says,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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A brank certainly in one recorded case cured a woman from coarse invective and abuse.
Vanishing England
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But…if the beltway characters, pundits, talking heads and so called journalists continue their insidious brand of hypocritical and un-comely rectitudinous invective toward la Hil, I shall be inclined to support her, in her, albeit seemingly opportunistic quest, for the Democratic nomination for president.
Firedoglake » Clinton Rules
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There are moments," writes poet Charles Simic in Harper's, "when true invective is called for, when it becomes an absolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to denounce, mock, vituperate, lash out, in the strongest possible language.
Paul Loeb: 'Soul Of A Citizen': The Redeemable Spark: Reaching Out To People Whose Actions May Appall Us
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This is just ill-considered invective, written on the spur of the moment and unduly influenced by the absolutely horrendous headache I'm currently enduring.
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The rich allegorical description of the island throughout the first five cantos of the poem offers, in itself, a harsh invective against prevailing Stuart policy.
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Augustus are forgotten the terrible invective of Tacitus and the sarcasm of Juvenal recall the cruelties and the terrors of Tiberius.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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Not for the first time the stream of invective aimed at the referee from the Tigers 'coaching bench was loud and increasingly personal, promoted by Poite's perceived lack of consistency.
Leicester turn air blue against Saracens in rage at referee exchange
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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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News reaches me, however, of referees fighting back against what seems to be a tidal wave of invective and abuse hurled in their direction.
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With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides; but it is only desired to restrain the employment of them against the prevailing opinion: against the unprevailing they may not only be used without general disapproval, but will be likely to obtain for him who uses them the praise of honest zeal and righteous indignation.
II. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
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After 25 minutes or so of fairly blistering invective, she gives up.
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Both load up their arguments with gobs of personal invective, which also makes me suspicious of their arguments.
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Secular anthropologists find a pagan influence, reading the formulaic invective as a counters-spell by someone who thinks he is bewitched by sorcerers who "have compassed me about with words of hatred.
David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms
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Bussy's invectives against courtly practices (I, i, 84-104) and hypocrisy in high places (III, ii, 25-59), while the "flyting" between him and Monsieur is perhaps the choicest specimen of Elizabethan
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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A skillful public speaker who mixed invective with humour, he did not disappoint the crowd of about 500.
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Hmm, second time this year I've been on the receiving end of a stream of semi-literate invective (spot the grammatical errors in it).
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The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described in as: -… occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.
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Unfortunately -- aside from just the spuriousness of Clinton's invective itself -- this reinforces the perception of duplicitousness and double-talk.
NYT: Hillary Camp In Disarray, Sensing The End
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So invective is the wrecking-ball to satire's ball-pein hammer.
Ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical
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It helpfully reasserts the book's argument; and by its resort to invective — "jeremiad," "screeds," "emotionally gratifying," "capitalist hobgoblins," etc. — his letter offers an instructive insight into Reich's own thought processes.
'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
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She laid into him with her usual invective as soon as he opened the door.
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There are however circumstances, I argue, where the use of invective and insult, if not edifying, is at least justifiable.
Sunday Salon: Negative Reviews, nasty Responses
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The speech was liberally salted with the standard Lathamite insults from Werriwa College of Invective.
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The text is at once self-justification and foamy-mouthed invective against the world.
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The parrots chatter shrilly in their aviaries, screeching invective and snatches of poetry.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel
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In the increasingly illiberal world of orthodox liberalism, competing ideas are answered not by argument but by a pose of moral superiority and by-the-book invective.
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The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire.
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In this worsening climate of inter-republican invective, the collective State Presidency met in emergency session on Oct. 2.
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Personal abuse and other invective is childish and an indication of lack of maturity and lack of judgement.
G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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When you are discussing a topic and you resort to name calling you are illustrating the point that you have lost the argument and all you have left in your arsenal is to spew invective.
George Lucas Talks STAR WARS with Jon Stewart on THE DAILY SHOW – Collider.com
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He let out a stream of invective.
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Coming across like a crank, or ranting and throwing around exaggerated invective, is another.
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The interval had rumbled to the sound of the crowd hailing their habitual invective down on him, but the players soon gave the discontents something more positive to shout about.
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The same afternoon we talked also about the process of book reviewing, whether or not the use of insult and/or invective is ever justified and if so, when.
On Negative Book Reviewing: Audio Interview with John Metcalf
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Mr Moore fired up the young crowd with a potent combination of satire, humour, invective and righteous anger.
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The art of the classic political sledge has been lost as MPs resort to crude invective over clever insults.