Your barely - literate
screed makes a STRONG case for your position.
Not exact matches
As we mentioned yesterday, tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has been
making waves with his exhaustive, five - part
screed against Apple and what he deemed to be the company's anticompetitive practices.
It was a home -
made attempt at holding local officials accountable — black text on a green background, rough photo - shopped images and lengthy
screeds.
The party's executive has put down a policy
screed of their own (in such a last - minute fashion that it didn't
make it into the conference agendas handed out to delegates) which takes precedence over the others.
Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent
screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error
made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.
ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed
screed that boasts all the production values of a bad
made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
Michael Moore's
screed against the American health care system Sicko, Laura Dunn's cosmic meditation on the environment and political action The Unforeseen — MIFF 2007, Julian Temple's ultimate music documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten — MIFF 2007, Chris Smith's poetic parable of class and poverty The Pool — MIFF 2007, Shane Meadows pitch perfect recreation of 80's England, This is England, and finally, a year late because I saw it late, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Half Nelson, which would
make my top five in any year and is easily one of the best American independent films of the decade.
According to your
screed, that
makes me a corrupt and dishonest individual.
It's a nifty reward system for class consciousness and
makes Leon's books either the most ethical crime novels available or the most engaging moral
screeds.»
When the Times allows a poorly researched, inaccurate anti-Amazon
screed to appear, it
makes me want to stand up for Jeff Bezos and Amazon, and present a very different point of view which I hope will balance out what I consider blatant propaganda.
The
screed does
make one useful point by noting how, in the past, chain bookstores and big distributors were hardly angelic in their dealings with publishers.
By asking a few simple questions, property owners can
screed out irresponsible pet owners and find the responsible ones who will
make good tenants.
I love the interior of Blueberry Hill — although an enormous space, the comfy furniture,
screed floor and during winter, log fire
makes it a homely, welcoming spot.
This is far from a reactionary
screed against the perceived «shallowness» of social media — Laing maintains a cautious yet hopeful outlook, writing, «We long for contact and it
makes us afraid.
Well, if it was a
screed against all humans, the movie wouldn't be
making a dime.
I'm not sure, however, that I'd be so quick to dismiss the arguments
made by Pardy and Cockfield et al. (the arguments
made by Conrad Black can probably be dismissed, since it consisted of little more than an unusually verbose
screed).