The word
"diatribe" refers to a harsh or angry speech or written tirade that criticizes someone or something harshly and denounces them. It is a forceful expression of disapproval or condemnation.
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Adam Gopnik — like his pieces on France and the French — writing about Houllebecq (whose new novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of
diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London».
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Diatribe on a variety of topics, attempting to link science, faith and philosophy, as well as discussion on pedagogy, blended learning and Web 2.0.
Jeff Bewkes capped off a string of strange
diatribes in which he has compared Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to «the Albanian army» and «a hamburger»...
Some impart their wisdom
with diatribes and speeches, while others know how to quietly move about the room and make their presence felt.
The founder of Film Threat magazine and a burr in Hollywood's side for the better part of a decade, Gore uses his premise as a platform
for diatribes against tight - fisted moneymen, studio philistines, and a cookie - cutter production process that crushes creativity.
Do you still work with copy - N - paste
diatribes as you once before so did do?
Your whole
little diatribe about se.x causing pregnancy, using birth control, etc. was unnecessary and patronizing.
(CNN)- Mel Gibson frequently spews «looney, rancid» anti-Semitism, has talked about killing his former girlfriend, and is prone to hate -
filled diatribes slamming everyone from John Lennon to Walter Cronkite, according to a screenwriter who has been working with him.
It's staked, as before, on the potty - mouth one - liners of Deadpool / Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), delivering a sardonic rapid - fire adolescent
diatribe which is very hit and miss, but pretty good - natured underneath all the outrageousness.
I'd log onto message boards and nod furiously as I
read diatribes about how the next Final Fantasy would be all flash, no substance.
In conclusion, Michaels finished with what he described as «a little one -
minute diatribe on how federal climatologists don't really tell you the truth, and how your government is trying to mislead you.»
One woman vented an
angry diatribe of suffering at the hands of an abusive stepfather and a complicit mother.
Boycotts of Antarctic were announced, retailers said they'd refuse to order the book, and many a comics industry pro
wrote diatribes on Twitter and Facebook deriding the decision.
He is using specific rhetorical rules from the first century called
epistolary diatribe argumentation.
When he could no longer deliver hits, Bednarik would
deliver diatribes about how the sport had changed; how players were soft and overpaid; how few people appreciated the past.
We hoped that, in an age of angry
online diatribes and weekly public burnings of straw - man arguments, it might be possible to genuinely understand an opposing point of view.
Still, these were different times in America's past, and peaceful coexistence didn't seem plausible at the time — a point Cooper reminds by forcing Blocker to endure a liberal
diatribe over dinner with Lt. Colonel Ross McCowan (Peter Mullan), as his wife (Robyn Malcolm) verbalizes a more progressive modern view.
In a Dear John Oliver missive, EOS simultaneously challenged the famous comedian and his
recent diatribe against ICOs, and cryptocurrency in general, while dismissing crypto - advocate Brock Pierce.
Perhaps in another 12 months time you'll still have Olivier K. Manual posting the
same diatribe on every post no matter what the subject — but what's the point?
There is nothing in your continuous
emotional diatribes against me that offer anything of a reasoned argument.
I would rather have Perry than Obama, who spent 20 years listening to the
hateful diatribes of REv Wright.
A fellow lawyer once recounted letting loose his most
venomous diatribe against an opposing lawyer.
Since I now have the above letter to back me up, perhaps this is the appropriate time to point to something I was alerted to some time ago concerning
diatribes aimed at my benefactors.
For these street preachers of ancient times were Stoics, and their sermons were
called diatribes.
Colin... Your
entire diatribe proves my satirical and sarcastic point that I made earlier... «because a dog's coat gets thicker in the winter, therefore we came from a one - celled amoeba».
Right -
wing diatribes about Columbus Day combine a fear of the future with a refusal to really look at the past.
Those in southern Oklahoma have found it difficult to make sense out of Josh Breechen's recent
diatribes regarding the puppy mill issue.
Yes, we've heard your
silly diatribe before and it is so full of... holes.
The bigger insult would be if Bezos finally tired of Will's
spewing diatribe in the future when the issue hits closer to home, such as dogging Amazon directly or making near - hate speech remarks about Cubans (Jeff was reportedly adopted by his Cuban stepfather as a child).
What ticks me off Akira is Mohler obviously thinks gay se.x and gay marriage should be illegal and yet nowhere in his inane
diatribe does he give one legal argument for his position.
Somehow, the dissenters to Dawkins»
diatribe never seemed to get as much airtime as he did or sell as many books.
Why, even Arsenal Fan TV put their seemingly endless anti-Wenger
diatribes aside to thank the man who has given them three league titles and a record seven FA Cups over the past two decades.
Summary: Aysh Chaudhry, an employee of Clifford Chance, has created a video
diatribe following the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.