It's been a while since I got to use the term philippic, and I have to say: I enjoyed it. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Weiner: Sit!] Reference
The philippic would have ended something like this. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Whittier called it "a grand and terrible philippic.". From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Patrick Nielsen Hayden on A simple, mildly incredulous philippic. From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 4/9/10] Reference
There was a quiet smile around Father Letheby's mouth during this philippic. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
The writer of such a powerful philippic can perhaps be excused a minor misstatement. From Wordnik.com. [Wesley Pruden: Better late than never…I guess.] Reference
And you're comment is philippic by Tom Murphy on Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008 at 3: 16: 44 PM. From Wordnik.com. [9/11 is the Litmus Test.] Reference
But there is a point where criticism assumes the role of the philippic, bitter invective. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In the original, the song is prefaced by a tremendous philippic against the hero of Caberfae. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Richard Dawkins has written a characteristically emotional anti-Christian philippic in the Times. From Wordnik.com. [2010 January « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
He was airing his cherished grudge, and pronouncing a severe philippic on the belles of the Dominion. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
Even Greeley's historic philippic, as famous for its style as for its deadly venom, came in revenge for. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Then he went on with his bitter voice to utter a furious philippic against our celebrated literary men. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
To this philippic, let the words of another Southern, but not sectional Senator, reply, and that from a golden age. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
To judge by Mr. ASQUITH'S recent speeches outside he meant to have delivered a thundering philippic against our continued occupation of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30] Reference
Over at Daimnation a reasonably good discussion is taking place about Terry Glavin's latest philippic against the Canadian peace movement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
In what one press report called a “philippic in Yiddish,” Clara Lemlich concluded, “I offer that a general strike be declared now.”. From Wordnik.com. [International Ladies Garment Workers Union.] Reference
My next letter was as brief as my first philippic. From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge] Reference
He replied with an eloquent philippic directed at the vices of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920] Reference
He rose to his feet and went on with his lachrymose philippic. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Senate on the 31st of May, 1872, a fierce philippic against the. From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
(London, 1638,) we have the following philippic against them. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
I retired to my attic, and produced a philippic named the Recantation. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
Such was the philippic of Jeremias Munter, as he came into the room with. From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
Eagar, not daunted by the philippic of the judge, resolved to sue him in. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania , Volume II] Reference
He told me that he had heard every word of the Curtis philippic many times. From Wordnik.com. [My Memories of Eighty Years] Reference
London made a most eloquent philippic against it at Exeter Hall the other day. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
But suddenly a gentleman of Provence rose to deliver a philippic against women. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3] Reference
Possibly, she had thrown more of herself into her philippic than she had realized. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference
Actually, it wasn't, unless his "discourse" was really a philippic against the media. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
With that philippic against optimism in mind, she felt what Spenser was rushing toward. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Thereupon the doctor launched forth in a philippic against the school which supported him. From Wordnik.com. [Jack 1877] Reference
The great majority of his published sermons are occupied with argument or philippic against. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
(The White House does link to the GPO's page.) philippic against Adobe why this is important. From Wordnik.com. [Sunlight Foundation Transparency Ecosystem] Reference
On May 19 and 20, 1856, he pronounced his famous philippic against slavery and its supporters. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865] Reference
The scorn he put into those two words was more withering than a whole philippic against redemption by creature comforts. From Wordnik.com. [The Patrician] Reference
"Going Rouge," a dazzling philippic of acrid Palintology assembled by Nation editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, is our first book. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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