Sentences with phrase «wrote diatribes»

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.

With the borders filled in by revivalist performances from Rene Russo and Bill Paxton — and a whole chunk of space dedicated to Riz Ahmed «s consciously unconscious thespian discharge — Gilroy's perfectly written diatribe to greed and America's obsession with suburbian horrors becomes the most arresting and visceral thematic account of where we stand as a nation and featured the best performance of the year in Jake Gyllenhaal.

Then again, I only review books which stick with me (I've reviewed all three of Raymond Benson's Spike Berenger titles, and written a diatribe against Joe for keeping me up when I should be sleeping).

Not exact matches

«If someone made a sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them would post a lengthy diatribe in response,» Fahlman writes.

A manager writes a brief thanks to staff, followed by a long diatribe against the traditional Thanksgiving meal: «I just wanted to make sure you know that eating meat isn't good for you.

I come to these conversations based on what I read from the author and only contribute my own voice to counter what I feel is a diatribe of irrational and fantasy charmed people with letters after their names who have no idea of what they write about.

However, as James Sanders wrote in Torah and Canon: «The true prophet does not engage in political diatribe to provide a rallying point for a particular course of action... he questions all the powers that be in the name of the one power beyond them.»

This form of writing is called Epistolary Diatribe.

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».

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday that he will write to a cop who posted racist online diatribes — to ask the officer to return any medals and commendations he...

All three wrote about the power of incentives — promised rewards — and Schwartz's book is largely a diatribe against what he calls the «incentive theory of everything.»

Finally, the largest group that this will appeal to are the crowd that enjoys the cheesiness of bad sci - fi, especially ones with horrendous apocalyptic plotlines, corny dialogue (what's with the plant - lover's diatribe about people who've written off the worth of hot dogs?)

In the wake of the attacks on teachers and public schools this past year, the haters of teachers feel respectable as they write their venomous diatribes and post them widely.

If I have to hear one more diatribe about the «greedy» establishment (especially agents), I may do something extreme, like write a very strident letter to the editor about it!

So Plucky wrote his lengthy diatribe and both his and my readers responded.

I wrote about it in a blog, then other sources confirmed it to The Escapist, thus forcing Chris Roberts to address and admit to it in his diatribe.

Buckman's portion of the performance inside the boxing ring involved reciting a poem she wrote about visit to a a self - professed swami in Harlem who spoke racist, sexist, and xenophobic diatribes.

«Her answer, placed on Canaday's desk on Monday morning, was a diatribe, reviling her boss with references to Zenocrates and Zola, and throwing back at him his own published words,» Sophy Burnham wrote in «The Art Crowd» (1973).

He wrote: «The most inspiring thing about Ofili's public response to the Giuliani diatribes back in the day was his refusal to explain or defend his painting, apparently feeling that he'd already said it all in the painting itself.»

Speaking of the media: Charles Krauthammer wrote a run - of - the - mill denialist diatribe in the Washington Post last Friday in anticipation of the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security bill making it to the full Senate this week.

I wonder what on earth makes him think that writing an innuendo laced diatribe and then sending an email to your target is a reasonable way to proceed?

He gives long diatribes, and writes turgid tomes, that are so convoluted, with so many made up terms, that they are unintelligible.

Since I did not write what I posted, It's not my diatribe.

And I saw you write political diatribes with absurdly general castigation of people for having a different political ideology than your own.

Perhaps Pope will write to chide Tim Flannery's latest alarmist diatribe, this one blaming global warming for Australia's disastrous fires («A deadly reminder that we must tackle climate change,» Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 12, 2009).

I merely noted that AARONB had written a lengthy left - wing political diatribe with no relation whatever to climate.

Given that you seem to think that writing long diatribes filled with insults is a standard worth reaching for, I'm wondering about what metric you use for measurement.

They wrote an extraordinary diatribe against our supposed advocacy of the «discredited» and «flawed» R - squared statistic, citing Wilks (1995) as supposed authority for this diatribe.

The smart home is still pretty dumb, but that doesn't mean we should give up or write whiney diatribes in PC Magazine.