I take issue with your portrayal of Republicans as denouncing America's infrastructure needs.
Speaking before today's announcement, Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko was quoted by The Associated Press as denouncing the "disgraceful fuss" here.
It concerns the invention of writing, as denounced in Plato's Phaedrus by means of a parable told by Socrates.
Elsewhere, she diagnoses the existence of the "angry bravo," in which an audience at the theatre is not so much applauding "No, No, Nanette" as denouncing "Hair".
Some enlightened observers even went as far as denouncing a conspiracy fomented by Israel.
The whole slur made about as much sense in the modern world as denouncing a politician for speaking into a microphone.
It's no big secret that the human rights situation for government critics in Azerbaijan has been abysmal, as denounced frequently by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
The word or concept for "homosexuality" did not even exist when the Bible was written, and many religious historians understand those "clobber texts" as denouncing ritual prostitution.
He was just as often denounced as a "polarizing" figure and his work was often denigrated in racist terms.
