A speech of violent denunciation.
1 He rose to his feet and went on with his lachrymose philippic .
2 A philippic is a bitter tirade, usually condemning a particular individual.
3 Rutledge, which is a philippic against Horry, and the subsequent determination of Gov.
4 But suddenly a gentleman of Provence rose to deliver a philippic against women.
5 On that occasion he delivered his last great philippic against slavery.
6 With that philippic against optimism in mind, she felt what Spenser was rushing toward.
7 Henry pronounced a philippic against Madison in open Assembly, Madison being then at Philadelphia.
8 My next letter was as brief as my first philippic :
9 He told me that he had heard every word of the Curtis philippic many times.
10 In the original, the song is prefaced by a tremendous philippic against the hero of Caberfae.
11 The philippic would have ended something like this:
12 In four short paragraphs containing sixty-six lines in the American Revision, Paul packs in his terrific philippic .
13 The Bishop of London made a most eloquent philippic against it at Exeter Hall the other day.
14 He was airing his cherished grudge, and pronouncing a severe philippic on the belles of the Dominion.
15 He seemed about to deliver a philippic .
16 Then he went on with his bitter voice to utter a furious philippic against our celebrated literary men.
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