The phrase "assailed so" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward or unclear without context.
It can be used in literary or poetic contexts to describe an intense or forceful attack or criticism.
Example: "The critics assailed so vehemently that the artist was left reeling from the onslaught."
Alternatives: "attacked so" or "assaulted so".
The line from Clinton played off comments from Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who has assailed so-called "New York values" as those of liberal politicians. .
In a sincere moment, she nails the despair that assails so many modern-day innocents (or not-so-innocents) abroad.
Still, compared with the infallibility projected by other members of pop's reigning elite — "Take it to another level / No passengers on my plane," Beyoncé sings in her 2008 song "Diva" — this kind of plain talk feels refreshingly old-fashioned, a welcome vestige of a time when artists could afford to let their guard down without fear of being assailed by so-called haters on social media.
Why is the region so assailed by the intractables of political dysfunction and religious violence?
So assailed are we by reports of harmful pleasures, and of the coercive male will being imposed through lust, that it comes as a relief to be reminded, in such style, of consensual joy.
We assail these so-called reality stars because of their lack of substance.
Has any other, apparently blameless mother been so sweetly assailed?
But take heart, and substantive pushback, from this reality - everytime a Bill Hobbs-type runs an ad akin to the one that assailed Michelle Obama, remember: they do so because their own ideas and candidates have so few selling points.
John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, and Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, assailed Comey for defying convention with so few details so close to election day.
