Calm, though occasionally slightly hesitant, Wood spoke with great feeling, underlining Plaid's commitment to a post-austerity Wales, her passionate belief in the importance of the welfare state, and her obvious disdain for the divisive anti-immigration politics of Farage, or "her friend on the far right", as she scathingly put it (I cheered).
Gordon Brown was scathingly lampooned in 2010 as a ditherer, with papers giving huge coverage to supposed plotters within the party.
An SDLP poll found almost two-thirds of its voters wanted the party to sign up to the new police board and it says Sinn Fein's outright rejection is out of step with the electorate - a claim Doherty scathingly dismisses.
Lindsay Anderson scathingly referred to the Theatre Upstairs as "the Gaskill" and dismissed the whole fringe culture as "a self-glorifying ghetto".
Gillian Triggs, the commission's head, recently returned from a visit to Christmas Island, and spoke scathingly about the impact of incarceration on the mental health of children there.
"Unity", said Mr Fillon scathingly after the UMP leadership result came through, "does not mean submission".Besides differences over mere issues such as economic policy or immigration, one of the most fiercely contested matters over the coming months will be deciding on the rules for the party presidential primary.
For such exotica as tinned goods and toiletries, Cubans must go to a state-owned dollar shop, scathingly referred to as "el shop".
It is, of course, a marvel, and Mr de Botton rightly marvels at it.And finally, the author has plenty of thought-provoking things to say about work itself, the most absurd examples of what he scathingly calls "the culmination of a long history of the division of labour, which began in Ancient Egypt three millennia ago".
Both the LDP and parts of the DPJ have reacted scathingly to the appointment.
This year's annual Economic Report to Congress scathingly criticised the traditional tax system and sung the praises of a consumption tax.
The Church of England, once described by an 18th century wag as "the Tory Party at prayer", has just found itself scathingly attacked by the very head of the Tory Party.
