But the fact that Trump has explicitly assailed just about every major media enterprise except Fox News and Breitbart makes him a uniquely terrible messenger for a gospel concerned with free speech.
Ambivalence about the path he has chosen fuels Macbeth's confiding eloquence, the great soliloquies in which he is assailed by doubts about his actions and fears about the future.
But later, as she and Peter crack open a box containing crib components, Annie is assailed by doubts about the commitment of the woman.
He said: "I have not forgotten being assailed by Barbara Castle about the inequities of the Liberal party in the 1920s … 25 minutes of real bile".
He also assailed the comments about Ms. Gordimer as "most insulting, given her stature and reputation as a world-renowned writer and opponent of apartheid".
Down to the Bone won two awards at Sundance in 2004, for best director and best actress, and Granik was soon being assailed with scripts about abused, self-destructive women trying to rise above their circumstances.
To Jean Sara Rohe, one of the students who assailed Senator John McCain about Iraq at his commencement address at the New School last May, she was not a heckler, as newspapers later called her, but a crusader for peace, doing what her "conscience called for".
Do they really have such utter certainty in their own abilities as mothers, their own flawless judgment, that they feel compelled to assail Elizabeth Edwards about her parenting?
That week, the president was being assailed on all sides about his relations with Russia.
When Fadéla Amara, the minister responsible for overhauling France's estates, visited Marseille's high rises last week, she was assailed by residents complaining about run-down housing and the lack of hope for the young.
