How To Use Tirade In A Sentence
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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Every week, just like all of you, we follow Aaron on his rants and tirades and so we just couldn't let another issue go out without us getting our own say.
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He had an hour-long tirade using everything from Play-doh, livestock, loose leaf paper, a sword swallower, and a Ronald Reagan mannequin smoking a marijuana cigarette in opposition to Gaga.
Bil Browning: Michael Steele Trying to Recruit Lady Gaga?
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However, hotel staff say they refused to serve him at the bar, and claim that as a result Watson issued an angry tirade of abuse.
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These complaints were not the normal tirade of abuse and insults we receive but seemed genuine.
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To read a tirade of abuse like this can only add to that trauma and make Nadia's bravery and eventual victory all the more commendable.
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The tirade peaked with the nameless harasser saying he would sell her organs.
The Sun
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He launched into his tirade after he arrived at a hotel and was told he could not have a steak as the kitchen was closed.
The Sun
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It just seems to be one long tirade on how to read stuff and then write it.
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And it got a whole lot worse yesterday with his foul-mouthed tirade at a photographer.
The Sun
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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Not for the easily shocked, his four-letter tirades - which prompted one walk-out - were interspersed by a spate of ingenious gags.
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Despite all this, the most amusing thing about your article hasn't yet been mentioned here in my little polemic tirade.
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However, the official decision appears to be a watered-down version of his tirade against the full-face veil as a custom that had nothing to do with Islam.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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I entered the living room, purposely sitting at a distance to avoid father's tirade.
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American people to accept their inner "hegemon" with a tirade against those who say it's time for the United States to reduce its military budget and begin addressing its economic and social problems.
Obama Pleases the Neocons
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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After the chairman delivered his opening speech , Mr. black launched into a brilliant tirade.
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Tessa had not backed down, not an inch, during her entire tirade of reprimands and verbal lashings.
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Just consider Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's recent tirade in which he called the moratorium an "economic calamity" that has jeopardized thousands of jobs.
Keith Harrington: Good News for Deepwater-Oil Junkies
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I allude especially to the monorhyme, Rim continuat or tirade monorime, whose monotonous simplicity was preferred by the Troubadours for threnodies.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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At the turn of a switch, an emotional tirade could become jocular chit-chat.
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This and many other traumas took an inevitable toll on her after the war, and led her to drink to excess, burst into tirades and complain of depression to her doctor.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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Note: Palin's tirade against a late night talk show commedian ... so ... why don't we just ignore them and go ahead and put this woman where she belongs!
Sotomayor defends membership in all-women's club
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Now the one thing that will get you booted unceremoniously from any locale, except a gathering of the Aryan Brotherhood at a beerhall, is going on a drunken anti-Semitic tirade.
John Galliano, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen -- poison and poetry
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Tirades on the evil of drink and drugs poured forth from my computer, and then I'd pop home and get arseholed on champagne and dope.
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He repeats a tirade of ethnic slurs.
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We reproduce what may be the most vicious tirade by a pollie against a journo, delivered by Danby under parliamentary privilege on Tuesday.
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A tirade of four letter words and curses spilled from her mouth as what Griffin had just told her hit home.
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Detectives never found the rude female passenger at whom he had allegedly directed his P.A. tirade, and who he said gashed his head with a piece of luggage.
Sorry for Rough Landing
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This is about people and their holier-than-thou attitudes when it comes to picking and choosing their specific little tirades against humanity.
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In the circumstances this was clearly the wrong question because it produced an angry, questioning tirade.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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But then he would repeatedly launched into political tirades using borderline offensive words like "sucks" or "assbackwards" when he was talking with those who called into the show.
Archive 2008-12-01
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If we opened our mouths we couldn't utter more than a couple of words before the tirade of abuse began again.
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His tirade against a society which he thinks is disenfranchising young men would be laughable if it were not so dangerous.
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Fury was fined 15,000 for a foul-mouthed tirade at a press conference.
The Sun
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He goes into a long Bush-bashing tirade, and we see the audience cracking up and clapping.
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The terrible twosome came unstuck after subjecting an innocent group of southern belles to a tirade of verbal abuse in the town centre.
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After the drive-by though, I flew into a mini tirade.
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In a furious tirade of abuse, the opposition spokesperson demanded the minister's resignation.
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These complaints were not the normal tirade of abuse and insults we receive but seemed genuine.
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Gotti shocked observers on Thursday by launching into a furious tirade against ex-pal John Alite, calling the turncoat mobster a "fag," a "punk" and a "dog" after Alite, on his way out of the courtroom, turned to Gotti and said: "You got something to say to me?
NY Post: News
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Replays indicated the call had been a harsh one and an incensed Williams unleashed a verbal tirade and waved her racket at the line judge.
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Once, a man who was haranguing me for money interrupted his tirade to answer his cellular phone.
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He has already planned his acceptance speech: a tirade against those who have suggested that he retire.
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The tirades can be leaden and repetitive; casual chatter between cohosts occasionally feels slack and aimless; and some of the non-Franken jokes reach for a humor they can't quite attain.
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The guy looked up from his pounding on the cowering animal and yelled back a blistering tirade of obscenities which I won't repeat here.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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According to Judge Robreno, Mr. Wider's lawyer, Joseph Ziccardi, "snickered" at his client's conduct and failed to stop his client's tirades and was therefore culpable as well.
If Spitzer Loses Law License,
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I came by the position honestly, I assure you: after my tirade the other day about the vital importance of good lighting in a midwinter writing space, the proverbial bee seems to have remained in my bonnet, buzzily nagging — nay, demanding — that I move my studio to the brightest room in the house in genteel protest of the notorious darkness of a Seattle winter and the news in the last few issues of Publishers Weekly.
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Readers may be tempted to dismiss such reflections as a reactionary tirade against popular government.
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His crime was to have pushed over a cabinet minister in response to a tirade of abuse during a heated debate.
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She was large and had an ugly face, and looked powerful - she had a smaller lady minion hovering behind her - but the three women did not stop their angry tirades.
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But Ramsay's four-letter tirades and uncompromising approach has not gone down so well with catering tutors hoping to attract students to courses at South Trafford College.
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The clever woman identified herself as a Washington reporter seeking to interview me but then embarked on a filthy tirade.
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His speech - as much a tirade against British military incompetence and colonialism as an Anzac service prologue - was as untypical for a New Zealander at an Anzac service as it was sharp.
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Another tirade of curses and hateful words followed, until Captain O'Neill showed her into the mess with great care and affection.
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He launched an immoderate tirade on Turner, accusing him of lack of stomach for the fight, of failure of nerve, of lack of leadership.
THE SCAR
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He threw his bike aside and launched into a tirade against the blameless ground crew.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this article it turns out that he went off on another tirade against the black community recently at a conference he was invited to be the guest speaker.
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The 50-year-old is said to have launched into his tirade after seeing the script for an upcoming episode.
The Sun
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They started to become verbally aggressive towards them calling them names like 'nonce' during a tirade of abuse.
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It's no surprise that Ronda Storms, who has made the news with her anti-gay tirades and other crazy-ass antics, is behind this patently unconstitutional stunt; she's probably jealous that Michele Bachmann is getting all of the national attention as the current right-wing nutball and she wants to get in on the action.
Jesus Christ On a Plate
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I guess McCain figured I didn't support the amendment (I didn't), because his jaw clenched, his face turned red, and he launched into a tirade.
Archive 2008-04-01
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A councillor has quit a carnival committee after a foul-mouthed tirade against a children's motorcycle display team was accidentally broadcast over a public address system.
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Seven players were suspended, each organization was fined $500,000, and the already cold relationship between Thomas and Karl grew even frostier after Thomas accused Karl of creating a dangerous situation by leaving his starters on the floor, and Karl fired back with a profane tirade.
USATODAY.com
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Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
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She has received complaints about louts as young as 12 who have been setting fire to bushes, defecating and urinating on doorsteps, fighting, damaging cars and hurling a tirade of abuse at shoppers.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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The stranger braced herself for a tirade of abuse, but to her surprise, when the noblewoman arrived, it did not come.
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This is the final straw, and, much out of character, I launch into a tirade against these annoying, impolite, uncivil people.
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While nothing can quite compare to his now infamous DWTS tirade, in his new book, Barack Like Me, comedian David Alan Grier explains why being multiracial is now the epitome of “cool.”
David Alan Grier “DWTS” Elimination Rant: “Carrie Ann’s Getting A Foot In Her A–!”
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Interviews among factional leaders might easily end in stormy scenes, full of tirades and tantrums.
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Usually charming, persuasive, and convivial, a person born under this sign can snap and quite suddenly launch into a tirade or a tantrum.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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Her blog, once full of obscenity-laced tirades against her high-society rivals, is now a must-read for its anti-Kremlin manifestoes.
Wrapped Up in Russia's 'Mink' Revolution
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On one hand, he resented his courtroom tirades, which were often personal and designed to humiliate.
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And Mrs. Beetling, growing steadily sulkier and more aggrieved, was now forced to stand and listen to a fierce tirade on the horrors of a foul mouth and foul breath, on the harm done to the digestive system, the ills awaiting her in later life.
Ultima Thule
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It also attacks Mussolini, the clown in the pulpit on the right who is shown dangling a bundle of fasces from a sickle as he delivers a political tirade.
Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
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The minister loosed an angry tirade against the leader of the opposition.
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But she was serious, and she launched into a tirade of abuse about those damned heathens.
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And it got a whole lot worse yesterday with his foul-mouthed tirade at a photographer.
The Sun
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If one were to summarise that speech, one would have to say that it was characterised by a tirade of abuse.
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She was used to Maria's rants and tirades, having picked her up from every session ever since she got a drivers' license.
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And he is superb in the meeting with his daughter which, in Hodge's hands, becomes less a self-conscious tirade against the cool affectlessness of 60s youth than a complex expression of a love-hate relationship.
Inadmissible Evidence - review
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There is plenty for critics to criticise; but those who have tried tend to receive a tirade of abuse.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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He launched into a tirade against the church.
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At that moment, they noticed I was watching them and greeted me with a tirade of foul language and obscene gestures.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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It's something of a disappointment when you had been hoping for a tirade of vitriol against humanity.
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Standing high on my pedals and growling threateningly, I launch into a tirade of woofs, barks, snarls and bow wow wows, praying that the Bulgarian dogs understand my Australian accent.
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Berman, normally a Barnumesque broadcaster/carnival barker who rarely lifts an eyebrow in criticism of anybody except for profanity-laced tirades aimed at production assistants when he thinks the cameras are off, slammed Snyder for his lack of respect for his employees and coaches.
Bad Sports
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The figure most heavily targeted in countermovement tirades against the EAM project, and who seemed to embody its worst excesses, was the adartissa.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
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Though I was in no danger of accepting his premise, the effect of his tirade was impressive.
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He has scenes where he strikes the audience dumb with epithet filled tirades, using words you know he can't spell, but he sure as shizzle can say.
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Interviews among factional leaders might easily end in stormy scenes, full of tirades and tantrums.
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Her acidic tirade against a hapless ultrasound technician is one of the funniest moments of the film.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the mood turned nasty when the MP showed no Respect for celebs during an angry tirade.
The Sun
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Cue aggressive tirade from tequila-soaked titch wearing fishnet stay-ups and a fascinator.
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Point made, he stops and waits a while and treats me to the inevitable tirade of verbal abuse aimed at the car in the meantime.
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Your comeback is the typical move-the-goalposts tirade with fancy bold letters very much preferred by the willfully ignorant.
Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
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Were it not for liberalism you would not be able to fire your tirade out against the freedom of your cultures, which is under threat no by the leftist by the rigth wing hoodlums who came from Texas, all of them God fearing and curch going decent folks dlin333
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Zhdanov's tirades had included his description of Anna Akhmatova as ‘a nun or a whore - or rather both a nun and a whore who combines harlotry with prayer.’
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And so it was, for about 12 hours, until Wolfe's tirade was reposted, without Soffer informing her readers of her commitment to remove it, and this time with 209 incendiary comments so severe that some my friends told me to get security and avoid Crown Heights.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: ‘Kosher Jesus’ And The Religious Websites That Want Me Crucified
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It is not an angry tirade against religion, nor is it an attack on Christianity guised as a horror flick laden with gratuitous violence.
Cathleen Falsani: Kevin Smith's 'Red State': Masterful, Spiritually Powerful
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Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
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She faced a tirade of abuse after insisting that she was too beautiful to be liked.
The Sun
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I smothered a laugh as my dad suddenly stopped midway through his angry tirade directed at a group of shamefaced security officers, and slowly pivoted his head in our direction.
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I must admit that I find hidden pleasure with his boutades and tirades.
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Adam stopped his tirade suddenly and looked in Hoss's eyes, where he saw only concern and worry.
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Walking to the station this morning I was shocked out of my daydreams by a tirade of four letter abuse.
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He's funny, he's ebullient, he has endless energy, and when he gets going on a tirade, he has the rhythmic passion of generations of Irish-Catholic priests!
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The minister loosed an angry tirade against the leader of the opposition.
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There are no subtleties, there is little light and shade and the long speeches are delivered as tirades rather than thoughtful Shakespearian soliloquies.
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In any case, his tirade illustrates how easily what were once mere irritations of daily life now turn into political crusades.
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'Not only did Hicks Jnr label the enquirer an' idiot ', he followed this up with an expletive-ridden tirade.
Football.co.uk news feed
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The External Affairs Minister also made it clear that anti-India tirade by Hafeez Saeed and other Jihadi leaders would not not "smoothen" Indo-Pak ties.
Top Headlines
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She fairly gasped in her excitement, not willing to pause in her tirade.
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From time to time, he stopped and, after a brief pause, continued his barbed tirade against the desecrators of the Sabbath.
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Most bizarrely, he even mangles an extremely well-known line of Orwell's, his tirade about ‘every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer’ and so on.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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It's brilliant to see people reacting with this gentle, exasperated humour rather than resorting to hateful tirades and overzealous flag flying.
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After awhile, his tirades, his vacillating and more, created doubt of sorts and yes, his questionable display of displeasure was now appearing as cheekiness.
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The title of this tirade is very quaint, viz. "Tobacco battered, and the Pipes shattered (about their Ears who idly idolize so base and barbarous a Weed; or at least-wise overlove so loathsome a Vanity) by a Volley of holy Shot from Mount Helicon.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
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Her expression is pained, quizzical and defensive, as if expecting a tirade of criticism at every turn.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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He is likely to be penalised for a foul-mouthed tirade and aggressive behaviour towards referee Stuart Dougal and his assistant James Bee following his dismissal at the conclusion of last month's Old Firm match at Ibrox.
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Une longue tirade, malheureusement pas vraiment traduisible vu l'heure et la longueur, sur la dépendance à internet, qui est à mon avis un faux problème.
Addicted to Technology! — Climb to the Stars
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While climbing a precariously balanced ladder and looking over a fence into the neighbour's garden, the neighbour appeared and subjected me to a tirade of abuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's something of a disappointment when you had been hoping for a tirade of vitriol against humanity.
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He launched an immoderate tirade on Turner, accusing him of lack of stomach for the fight, of failure of nerve, of lack of leadership.
THE SCAR
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After the chairman delivered his opening speech , Mr. black launched into a brilliant tirade.
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She launched into an angry/furious tirade about how she had been unfairly treated.
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The man who was known as "McNasty" in high school has erupted in foul-languaged tirades at political foes and congressional colleagues more-or-less throughout his career, and his quickness to anger has been an issue on the presidential campaign trail as evidence of his fury has surfaced.
Easter Lemming Liberal News
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In some cases I have regretted asking the question as they have launched into a tirade against the airport.
Times, Sunday Times
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The play's title comes from a tirade by one of the husbands, a potential jiltee: The New York idea of marriage.
NYT > Home Page
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He launches into an inarticulate tirade against conventional people.
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The speaker tiraded against the government's policies.
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She was used to Maria's rants and tirades, having picked her up from every session ever since she got a drivers' license.
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her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband
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So maybe now I am smiling, just to spite this woman and her ridiculous tirade.
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Their obese son can't open his mouth without a tirade of abuse and their daughter has retreated into herself.
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However, when the dishes had been washed, the house grown quiet, and my light shut off, I tossed and turned in impotent fury at this, the latest, in forty years of such tirades from my mother.
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Believe it or not, that's the insinuation of the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, the Arizona Democratic Party, the Arizona Republic, and countless blogosphere crackpots, some of whom have lumped Hayworth in with Malibu meshuga Mel Gibson and Gibson's tequila-fueled tirade against matzo-munchers worldwide.
Archive 2006-08-01
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Said Retailer is having none of this and tries to carry on his tirade.
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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‘Did that set him off on one of his tirades about machismo, the Right Stuff, and pantywaist New Men?‘she asked scornfully.
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Close was a powerful preacher renowned for his tirades against Catholicism and this further annoyed Trollope, who had seen the harm caused by such harangues during his long residence in Ireland.
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If these tirades are accompanied by an overflowing trug of produce they can be more acceptable and allow the recipient to discover whether the claims of superior taste are in fact true.
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Indeed, the latter was marked by one of the highest ratios of female to male combatants in the history of the Second World War, a curious phenomenon in itself, and one which provided a crucial subtext to the tirades hurled at the partisan army by an outraged 'national-minded' countermovement on the ascendancy.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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Once, after failing to answer a question in a lesson, she launched into a tirade of abuse and threw a chair at the teacher.
The Sun
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She launched into a tirade of abuse against politicians.
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A pasquil on the Commander in Chief, or a tirade against the Government, was sure to be eagerly read and warmly approved of.
Russia
