Iranian bloggers and Twitterers reported an unprecedented level of open denunciation of regime figures during yesterday's events.
In January 1980 the Soviet government stripped him of his honours and exiled him to the closed city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) to silence him following his open denunciation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and his call for a worldwide boycott of the coming Olympic Games in Moscow.
The open and public denunciation of those who pervert the peaceful faith of Islam has been central to how the kingdom continues to successfully fight against terrorists.
The left's rhetoric and denunciation of open trade economics sounds tough in meetings and feels good in a column.
In that instance, South Korea referred the case to the Security Council, expecting an open-and-shut denunciation.
But it had not been all that long since he was one of the "shestidesiatniki," the generation of the 60s, who sprouted in the cultural "thaw" that Nikita Khrushchev opened with his denunciation of Stalin in 1956.
One climax is a dramatic monologue for Bill that opens with a denunciation of Broadway, using a familiar expletive, and continues through a litany of what seems like every single person or entity even remotely involved in theater, from tourists to the "gay mafia," applying the same word to each.
Anti-American and anti-Israeli protests throughout the region have recently been reinforced by open calls for boycotts of American products and denunciation of European and American companies as Israeli fronts.
His latest production, a film version of the classic Black stage play, "For Colored Girls...Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," will open a Pandora's box of debate, celebration, denunciation and hand-wringing.
