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Sentence Examples It didn't help, of course, not really, but at least there were no innocent bystanders around to suffer my invective. The wilful Welshman was quick to test his new manager, reacting to that substitution at The Valley with a stream of invective. We've all hurled invective into voicemail's dead ears as it runs through its unholy litanies. The thing about Jo, and she's so graceful with it, is that she gets more bile and invective than any other comic because she's a woman. Coming across like a crank, or ranting and throwing around exaggerated invective, is another. The appointed writer for the day polishes them up with the appropriate invective and posts them. Soccer worldwide makes a science of invective against match officials after any game turning decision goes against them. News reaches me, however, of referees fighting back against what seems to be a tidal wave of invective and abuse hurled in their direction. There's a long road ahead of us, and invective at this stage doesn't help us in any way. John is old and waiting to die but the prospect of death hasn't dulled his appetite for invective or his irreverence for the great and the good. As is the custom at the Star Tribune, the editorial was long on invective and short on facts. Mr Moore fired up the young crowd with a potent combination of satire, humour, invective and righteous anger. What one needs in journalism is plenty of forthright, candid opinion, good old-fashioned invective, frolics and fun. It is pretended, that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures. It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it. The text is at once self-justification and foamy-mouthed invective against the world. As a consequence, this cultural connectedness provides a shield from the emotional invective that results from living in a racist society. The viciousness of the invective makes it seem like they must have had their knives sharpened for a long time, laying in wait for your next book. Both load up their arguments with gobs of personal invective, which also makes me suspicious of their arguments. Hmm, second time this year I've been on the receiving end of a stream of semi-literate invective. Show More Sentences The art of the classic political sledge has been lost as MPs resort to crude invective over clever insults. He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality. The central theme of iambic poetry was traditionally invective, that is personal attack, mockery, and satire. But you couldn't fail to be a little shocked by the volume and pitch of the invective directed our way. Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability. It is not what is the now familiar anti-communist invective of the servants of capitalist barbarism. Very kindly, I ask the government to respond, stop with the invective and the cruelty and address the situation of the pork and beef industry. Most of these are designed by the parties, by professionals, and are filled with facts, and also with political invective and party logos. She didn't understand this so hurled another stream of invective at me. Humor has given way to humorlessness, sarcasm to sanctimony, irony to invective. Rarely have I read a more bitter, laudably splenetic piece of invective. No doubt CTB members will even now be donning the sackcloth and ashes before going up to apologise to the Lake District National Park Authority for their previous invective. The local government, despite all the invective directed at its leadership, seems to be functioning normally for the moment. As an insult, which is absolutely what it is, it satisfyingly rolls off the tongue, as all invective should. The satire is so laden with invective and is so dense that I wish there was an annotated version of this book to read which would make it much easier to read. Her piece is a colorful collection of insults, long on invective and heavy on the adjectives. The rich allegorical description of the island throughout the first five cantos of the poem offers, in itself, a harsh invective against prevailing Stuart policy. Satire finally came to the fore in American political life, unleashing a tsunami of politically-charged ridicule and invective that has changed the republic forever. After 25 minutes or so of fairly blistering invective, she gives up. Keller might be sphinxlike in newsroom meetings, but he was quick to unleash invective in e-mail responses to critics. Show More Sentences More often than not, the retort to this rhetorical question involves obscene invective, drawn from the vulgar nomenclature regarding genitalia and the act of coition. It represents an invective against Inuit that has nothing to do with conservationist principles. Certainly, their vocal attributes remain unimpaired, judging by the steady stream of invective directed at all persons perceived as the opposition. At that point, it is no longer a complaint that we have to deal with, but simply invective. However, the Liberals keep spewing invective and pretending that they are indignant at the Conservative government's actions. Mr. Ken Boshcoff: Mr. Speaker, in the spirit of cooperation the committee to a large extent tried to avoid that type of invective. In the increasingly illiberal world of orthodox liberalism, competing ideas are answered not by argument but by a pose of moral superiority and by-the-book invective. Pure invective, unmitigated by any sophistication, subtlety or decorum. This is just ill-considered invective, written on the spur of the moment and unduly influenced by the absolutely horrendous headache I'm currently enduring. It appeared, however, as if she herself had acquired a unique immunity to invective and insult so long as she could lay her hands on something to stitch. It was a partial adaptation of a satire by Juvenal, but with an immense amount of explicit invective against women. I would like to remind him that invective is the lowest form of argument. The other side provides personal attacks and personal invective from the minister and the Liberal opposition to the people oppose to this agreement, but they have not brought forward a single fact or argument. If I am heaping invective on you, Mr Barón Crespo, why are so many of your members, including all of your British members, going to support our motion in the vote tomorrow? Moreover, you heap invective on those of us who recognise the public concern, who admit that the expenses regime is unjustifiable and who seek to introduce the highest standards into the management of this House. Even though BP and its chief executive, Tony Hayward, have garnered most of the headlines and most of the invective, it isn't the only company involved. Since then, mutual enmity, expressed in military confrontations, acts of sabotage and a steady stream of invective, has ripened into a broader strategic rivalry. Unfortunately, Amir Attaran has chosen to ignore that call and engage in ideological invective rather than participate in an important national dialogue. The answer is that you heap invective on yourselves and you deserve it. With negation and abstention, nihilism and invective and derision, DIKO is led to complete untrustworthiness and disrepute. Show More Sentences Amidst the unzoned sprawl of my files is a folder containing favorite examples of political invective I've collected over the years. And Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, a leader who has toughed out extraordinary political adversity and personal invective, is the one cast aside. State media still indulges in horrific invective against the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, suggesting that, despite its discovery of American schmaltz, the regime's attitude remains dangerously paranoid. The most eloquent passage in the Historia is the closing chapter of book VI, in which Chilperic's character is summed up unsympathetically through the use of an invective. As a journalist he showed immense talent and possibly genius, dispensing with the ornate poeticisms that then typified Italian newspapers, in favour of pugnacious invective. Examples from Classical Literature Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective. From satirising the social vices of the time, the transition was easy to political satire or invective. It was less invective than scornful, and scorn that seemed to sicken her as she spoke it. I could not endure to change my invective into panegyric all at once, and so soon. There is in him an irascibility of temper, accompanied by a facility of invective, which is seldom met with. Yet invective singles him out for its one object, and so betrays the aforethought malice of its inspiration. We have already seen how ingeniously he titillated public curiosity in the title of his invective against Aretino. The controversy between the two is noted for the virulency of the personal invective. At home and abroad he exhausted himself in invective, in exhortation. Much of Kincaid's works are considered autobiographical and portray her as an invective, melancholic person. Now the hard-hearted Bella interlards her speech with invective! They were based on false principles and teemed with slander and invective. A human other is more convincing and less ambiguous, and will teach us humaneness not by invective but by example. The opening was a sound piece of slashing invective about the evil secrets of princes, and despair in the high places of the earth. Not succeeding, he raised his free arm in a flurry of invective. I checked the half-uttered invective, and scornfully turned away, regretting that I had given him so much amusement. Now, mind, I do not say this in any spirit of misanthropic invective. If it is wanted for an invective, or Philippic, there it is! With a final scream of jungle invective and an apelike grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way. Then there was a current of curses, a swift hissing of invective. Show More Sentences After him came Weary, liberally applying quirt and mild invective. These two clauses have been the source of much virulent invective and petulant declamation against the proposed Constitution. I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation. Find more words! 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