The bigger problem is that shorn of the intriguing instrumental detail of his recent albums, these long, ruminative screeds so lacking in empathy also lack the musical attraction that might keep one's attention.
There has been a recent outpouring of books, manuals and screeds advocating celibacy, including Ms. Williams's "Sensual Celibacy" (Simon & Schuster, 1999), in which she argues that saying no to sex recharges the spirit.
Perhaps because he is pretty much alone in the field — most recent books on Iran are either memoirs or political screeds about nuclear politics — Elliot has not felt obliged to cramp his wide vision.
In recent years, Mr. Lipsky's blog, full of flamboyantly written screeds and carefully argued indictments — often of Mr. Bloomberg, whom he derides as "the King" — became his most potent weapon, according to fans and foes alike, and enhanced his claims of being the one lobbyist willing to fight City Hall.
It reads like an open invitation to friendly bombs, but James adores it with a rare passion, which makes his recent willingness to appease the Sun's advertisers – writing craven screeds for the paper in praise of McDonald's production methods and the like – seem more cynical than ever.
While China's newspapers remain mostly dry, propaganda-filled screeds, they have become slightly more compelling reads in recent years and thus better than most Chinese have ever seen.
Critics and academics who tended to dismiss Diana as an air-headed clothes-horse during her lifetime are now poring over her life, her death and, in particular, the public reaction to her death.In recent months publications as varied as the British Medical Journal, the New Left Review and Granta, a literary magazine, have printed screeds on the subject.
Since then, he's busied himself by rattling off anti-semitic screeds online, only to have his dad yell at him in the middle of a recent livestream.
Yet some pro-government screeds are blaming Israel for the PKK attacks, claiming it is "seeking revenge" for Mr Erdogan's recent expulsion of the Israeli ambassador over Israel's refusal to apologise for killing several Turks aboard a flotilla heading for Gaza last year.
They do one-sided screeds".
