How To Use Philippic In A Sentence

  • I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics.
  • It's been a while since I got to use the term philippic, and I have to say: I enjoyed it. Rep. Weiner: Sit!
  • Watching the Hollywood mega-hit "WALL-E" with his daughter, Mr. Kernen discovers not only wonderfully rendered animation but a philippic targeting consumer capitalism. Required, A Market Tutorial
  • All the old spirit of 1776, rekindling the newspapers from Boston to Charleston, proves this; and even the monocrat papers are obliged to publish the most furious philippics against England. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.
  • Why I Still Remain in the Provinces" was an anti-urban philippic, warning that cities exposed thinkers to what he called "destructive error". Top stories from Times Online
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  • In an hour-long philippic, the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his bill.
  • In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
  • In an hour-long philippic the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his payment.
  • In an hour long philippic , the legislator denounced the lobbyist opposing his bill.
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden on A simple, mildly incredulous philippic. SF Tidbits for 4/9/10
  • Vienna lectures of 1810 foretoken Ruskin's philippics against railways and factories. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • People who write philippics - which can only earn the name "philippic" when published to a murderous tyrant - have good reason to worry that the bold act will cost them their lives, and I believe it nearly cost me mine. Dissident Voice
  • The other part of her book which has impressed me is her philippic on Europe and her call for Britain to begin the process of withdrawal from the European Union.
  • And there was much exasperation from Beschizza as he fired off a polite British philippic at a gadget industry that can't seem to tell the difference between a UMPC and a subnotebook. Boing Boing
  • The term "philippic" comes from the Ancient Greek days when Demosthenes used to get up and yell about how terrible Philip of Macedon was -- and how he always threw his arms around procedure and stall, stall, stalled and then voted no, and wouldn't sit. Rep. Weiner: Sit!
  • The smallest concession to a different view must now be scotched by this master of the pulpit philippic and the courtroom defence.
  • They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall.
  • Next Friday sees the first anniversary of the inception of this desultory philippic.
  • I guarantee as this thread plays out it will be salted with philippics from rabid Palin lovers bemoaning "all the hate" being spewed by loathsome Liberals because they are so "scared" of her. Palin attorney warns media over 'defamatory' charges
  • Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection .... GreenCine Daily
  • Richard Dawkins has written a characteristically emotional anti-Christian philippic in the Times: 2010 January « Anglican Samizdat
  • My Dad wanted me to read The Divine Comedy but my Mom gave him a philippic for even suggesting it.
  • In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden

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