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I adore the word "philippic," a "bitter denunciation," which has an interesting etymology.
Readers familiar with Jacobs's Dr. Flint, who swings between unctuous flattery and bitter denunciation of his enslaved victim, will recognize the schizoid energy behind these words.
Foscolo's very popular novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1802; The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, 1970) contains a bitter denunciation of that transaction and shows the author's disgust with Italy's social and political situation.
On Thursday, for example, President Obama signed legislation allowing his Administration to freeze the financial assets of Venezuelan officials involved in crackdowns on domestic protesters — a move that brought forth another bitter denunciation from Maduro.
Aides to Dr. Frist, whose bitter denunciation of Mr. Clarke came as the Senate was winding down for the week, said he had not been encouraged by the White House to take up the matter.
Adams contended that the gag rules were a direct violation of the First Amendment to the federal Constitution, and he refused to be silenced on the question, fighting indomitably for repeal in spite of the bitter denunciation of his opponents.
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By contrast, when conflicts get personal deteriorating into bitter denunciations and criticism, for example team performance may suffer.
Backers of Mr. Gore, meanwhile, said they believed he had succeeded in resisting falling into bitter denunciations of Mr. Bush's record.
But while their bitter denunciations of the Affordable Care Act may have depressed its approval numbers, they didn't make replacing it any easier.
The "files of Eros" found in this volume range from rhapsodic avowals of love ("Susie and I could be happy on an ice floe," he says of his third wife) to bitter denunciations.
The Florida Supreme Court ruling in favor of hand recounts in three heavily Democratic counties provoked bitter denunciations by Republicans in Congress today, with the House majority leader calling for the Florida Legislature to step in.
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