The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can be too easily countered. From LearnThat.org. [Gilbert Highet (1906-1978), Scottish-born U.S. biographer, critic, educator.]
However the target for invective is the general public. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical] Reference
So invective is the wrecking-ball to satire's ball-pein hammer. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical] Reference
But I maintain that this sort of religious invective is also rude. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 17, 2002 - March 23, 2002 Archives] Reference
By 19th-c. standards our political invective is embarrassingly lame. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”] Reference
The invective is "some of the worst I've ever seen," Superintendent Dennis Carlson said. From Wordnik.com. [Suicide Surge: Schools Confront Anti-Gay Bullying] Reference
That type of pointless, valueless, factless political invective is pretty common over there. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Darcy Burner untethered on TV] Reference
Why do silly people think that when a woman engages in invective she is “miserable and bitter”?. From Wordnik.com. [Consider the source « BuzzMachine] Reference
Most Americans recognize that most of what Mann Coulter spews is twisted invective from a parallel universe. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows] Reference
I wrote earlier that one of the best uses of invective is to frame wit - and that's where I think the article is deficient. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical] Reference
Truly ugly, invective is directed at Obama too, but as the winner it is incumbent on him to reach out to Clinton supporters. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'] Reference
Oslo, an event that has prompted a slew of invective from the Chinese government for honoring a man it calls a subversive and a criminal. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Her invective was a lot worse than I've managed to make it sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
LOL — and just to school you guys in invective: basically, you’re Swift’s Yahoos. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Head of State] Reference
The invective is a little hard to deal with, but it doesnt again, it doesnt get me down. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Questioning a president’s policies, vigorously and even with invective, is fine and appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Krauthammer Tours The Border Of Gaffneyland] Reference
There is in him an irascibility of temper, accompanied by a facility of invective, which is seldom met with. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference
If you're factually correct then there's nothing the other side can say except invective, which is what you seem to be engaging in now. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Gord:] Reference
You call it 'invective' because you can't rebut it. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Please look up "invective" before you use it again. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference
This kind of invective is beneath the standards of Talking Points Memo. From Wordnik.com. [Polls Contradict Rudy's Blue-State Claim] Reference
This invective is just so wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Proposed School Budget Received Badly at cvillenews.com] Reference
'Any particular kind of invective?' queried the man up top. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and Betty] Reference
Ex-wofer, I had hoped to avoid this kind of invective, but alas, your comment drips with it. From Wordnik.com. [Pulpit Pimps] Reference
I don't think I ever realised till that moment what the word 'invective' could be made to mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Toys of Peace, and other papers] Reference
He likes the word invective. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rush on Katrina: “We Can Make This a Category 5 Hurricane Destruction of the Left”] Reference
And we thought we were tired of partisan invective. From Wordnik.com. [NEWSMAKERS] Reference
The mere possibility touched off a storm of invective. From Wordnik.com. [Horror In The Night] Reference
It has become synonymous with AIDS, crime and racial invective. From Wordnik.com. [The Incredible Shrinking President] Reference
For all his invective-and maybe because of it, too-he was a dissenter. From Wordnik.com. [Tacking Toward Moderation] Reference
Unlike Rumsfeld, Gates almost never raises his voice or uses sharp invective. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Keeper] Reference
But there's nothing about their invective that is the slightest bit memorable. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines, Online: Whacking The Waitresses] Reference
The present panicky climate results, at least partly, from all the invective heaped on the Fed. From Wordnik.com. [The Market’s Echo Chamber] Reference
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