philippic

This is from the Third Philippic presented to the eclessia.

Because they were modeled after Demosthenes' speeches, they were also called Philippics.

(133.) CICERO, SECOND PHILIPPIC ORATION 153-155 (W.K.

Adams, praising his "sonnets and unrhymed philippics" (132).

When McCarthy unleashed a furious 60,000-word philippic against Gen.

All this, however, is only negative--a philippic on why the 'distinctive character' test should not be accepted.

Why draw attention to this unpleasant philippic? At one level, it is nothing new.

The culmination for many Britons of the Prime Minister's obsequious fawning to the President was the humiliating episode, unintentionally but fortunately captured on camera, which occurred at a G8 meeting in Russia when Bush, munching on a roll, summoned Blair, like a prancing poodle, with the curious salutation 'Yo, Blair!' Quite effectively this provides the title of a sustained philippic against Tony Blair by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, a serious journalist with a strong sense of history.

Marginalization has been a central philippic in Cameroon Anglophone literature.

Smith's philippic against the would-be apostles of French solidarity will be music to the ears of all those who hold it as an article of faith that the French invoke principle only in order to advance their national--or personal--self-interest, that social provision in France is little more than a recipe for economic decline, and that long vacations afford proof positive of national debility.

The rhetoric manuscripts include "Philippic Against Antonio Panormita" and "The Apology of Antonio da Rho".

"His speech was brilliant, capricious, rambling, savage, predictable, astonishing, a sustained philippic against United States foreign policy since 1945."--John Walsh, Independent on Sunday, December 11, 2005

(39) In his philippic Hard Code Now!, (40) Mattei pleads for a code of a different quality.