Long to eat a T-bone, making passionate speech

Usage examples of diatribe.

The diatribes by liberals like Chait, who not only hated Bush but also ridiculed him as a dullard.

Horace, and scholars such as Fraenkel and Rudd who seek to account for the structures of the first three diatribes must explain the disjunction between shifts in apparent subject and shifts in tone.

Faulconer was incapable of speaking, but then the words flowed and soldiers fifty yards from the farmhouse listened in awe, while men bivouacked further away hurried closer to hear the diatribe.

While he had sound ideas and concepts, his writing resembled rambling diatribes more than anything else.

Marlowe had been particularly irked when, during an afternoon of hanging out in the rastafarian barbershop, an antique copy of Have Gun Will Travel was interrupted by an earnest woman with a lengthy diatribe about lesbian rights under any new administration.

Made rather a habit of it, too, it looks like," he had added critically, looking over the scrawled manuscript of the antitax diatribe.

There had been the monologue-there was no other word to describe it--on the correct preparation of "Tex-Mex chili" ("whatever that is," Arrhae heard from the Praetorate benches behind her), together with a vituperative diatribe against those heretics ("ah, religious schism.

Lunzie thought she had never seen a harsher dressing down ever committed to plas-sheet, but the grade noted below the diatribe showed that he was pleased with her.

With the alteration of one word – the proper name – this passage might have been taken straight from some political diatribe of to-day.

Their diatribes suggest that the Hebrews, often thought to be a homogeneous group, were actually a combination of roving tribes and settled cities, only some of whom were willing to adopt one Sky God over the Mother of All Baalim or Gods.

Their diatribes suggest that the Hebrews, often thought to be a homogeneous group, were actually a combination of roving tribes and settled cities, only some of whom were willing to adopt one Sky God over the Mother of All Baalim or Gods.

He wore a sorcot, underpants and braies same as everyone else, yet I stood hypnotized as one by one he discarded each piece while his diatribe against the French king continued unabated.

Now the tip of the blade dipped in curt signal toward the nervous Mearan troops, his voice cutting off Brices diatribe.

So she sat in the ladder-backed chair facing the stone hearth, her hands folded demurely in her lap, and listened wide-eyed to his diatribe against Satan's servants and black magic.

I baited my liberal adversaries, publishing a diatribe against a board of regents proposal to strengthen affirmative action programs.