His idealisation of an ascetic lifestyle and explicit denunciations of consumerism are clearly hard to reconcile with his multimillionaire status.
RT, the channel formerly known as Russia Today, addresses the outside world, while state television channels bombard Russian-speakers with denunciations of the "fascists" in Kiev.
Once upon a time not very long ago politicians feared that denunciations from the pulpit at Sunday mass would end their careers.
A rash of denunciations saw many imprisoned unjustly by the military, who would seldom confess who they had in prison and who they didn't.
So far, Saudi efforts to confront Isis ideologically have mainly taken the form of denunciations from tame clerics – figures who have no prospect of influencing Isis supporters and sympathisers – but it is difficult to see what else they might do without calling their own state system into question.
(I remember, incidentally, the late Christopher Hitchens's rip-roaring denunciations of the fantasy-Churchill portrayed in The King's Speech. Perhaps we need some new Hitchens to get cross about the inventions in The Imitation Game).
The study says that although migrants will not vote as a bloc, previous patterns suggest they are likely to prefer parties viewed as positive about race equality and immigration – and are likely to turn their back on those engaged in hostile denunciations of migrants.
There were death threats and denunciations.
The stick has involved tighter policing of monasteries, controls on visits to Lhasa, denunciations of the Dalai Lama and arrests of dissidents.
The fact that the Labour and Liberal tribes are now agreed on a programme of constitutional change--including reform of the House of Lords, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and a freedom of information act--may help with voters, since the endorsement makes John Major's denunciations of constitutional change seem merely hysterical.
Rather than withholding aid, they argue, better for Westerners to support grassroots organisations which agitate for change.Left to their own devicesWell-known international human-rights groups devote as much attention to the quiet cultivation of links with local activists as they do to public denunciations of laws they disagree with.
