He opened his last concert, a week before he died, with "When Will We Be Paid," a gorgeous, denunciatory song off the family's 1970 album, "We'll Get Over". The lyrics catalogue the labor of black Americans ("We have worked this country from shore to shore / Our women cooked all your food and washed all your clothes").
He opened his last concert, a week before he died, with "When Will We Be Paid," a gorgeous, denunciatory song off the family's 1970 album, "We'll Get Over".
The work was controversial, however, and a variety of denunciatory articles amd pamphlets appeared.
The work was controversial, however, and a variety of denunciatory articles and pamphlets appeared.
"His use of meshugeneh — a not uncommon solecism, incidentally; the adverb should be meshuga — seems intended to strengthen his point at the same time as it gives his expression of it a heartfelt, rather than denunciatory, feel," Mr. Wex said.
A Czechoslovak artist known in the United States primarily for sweetly benign collages and assemblages, Mr. Kolar is represented here by "Diary 1968," a series of quietly denunciatory collages made in response to the Soviet occupation of Prague that year.
But Leveson deserves a respectful hearing for his proposals, however wise or not they turn out to be, not an hysterical hail of denunciatory abuse of the kind we have seen in recent weeks.
Everything to be known of this piece -- that it was written in 1937 and set denunciatory prose by an Italian anti-Fascist -- suggested it would be some kind of abrasive exhortation, its force now spent.
And indeed, though Lazarus asserts that his book is "both an indictment" of how the Court has behaved over the past decade and "a hopeful plea" for change, his tone is almost exclusively denunciatory.
Rosenthal fired back a nasty note on Oakes' "embarrassing harangue," adding, "Your emotional, pejorative, denunciatory, and self-serving style brings out the worst in me.
