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personal attacks

n. (personal attack English)

Usage examples of "personal attacks".

Senators Kennedy, McGovern and Fulbright are strangely silent, while Humphrey babbles nonsense and Muskie hoards his energy for beating back personal attacks by Strom Thurmond.

More often, liberals withdraw figuratively by responding with ludicrous and irrelevant personal attacks.

Far more hurtful were the personal attacks from the Hamilton Federalists.

They will face magical, monstrous, and personal attacks, as well as treachery from those they thought were allies.

Their address to the senate was mainly taken up with personal attacks on the king, but what weighed most with the senate was their description of that part of the world and the distribution of sea and land.

Lionstone had stopped seeing it as a political struggle for control of the Empire, and was now taking it as a series of personal attacks.

There had been a number of personal attacks during the quest journey, and those personal attacks had shown a knowledge of the characters of the people under attack, a knowledge of how they would probably act in a given situation.

Sorcerers Guild rules allow them to respond to personal attacks with as much force as necessary, and an angry Sorcerer might well decide it's necessary to fry you to a crisp.

After facing censorship from the journals and ferocious personal attacks in public by prestigious figures at conferences, he left the U.