What is "shouting matches"

Usage examples of "shouting matches".

From his post in the Provincial Building above the Arnhem bridge, Charles Labouch@ere saw no letup in the flood of vehicles, troops and Nazi sympathizers streaming across the bridge.

He finally decided they always would, and was able to enjoy the shouting matches for the great theater they were.

If you and I were married,he made his voice humble, you could influence me, persuade me to your way of thinking She had been poised for one of their marvelously exhilarating shouting matches, and now she looked slightly crestfallen.

That had involved her in shouting matches with Big Uglies, but no expulsion order came, worse luck.

The ship's AI, Ozymandias, was running all the things that mattered, and the Hereward's top of the line security systems meant nothing less than a starcruiser could detect them, except by accident, Since of late most conversations had tended to escalate very quickly into shouting matches, a strained silence currently occupied the bridge.

There had been any number of angry shouting matches, in the streets and in the civic militia's assemblies.

But whether an eruption was one thousand or seven thousand years old was a matter of opinion, not to mention outright shouting matches among the scientists.

He had been hired because as a second-year graduate student in film studies at the University of Denver he was presumed to share similar enthusiasms with the boss, a presumption the whole family had cause to regret, his arguments with Emory over the aesthetic merits of a particular film or even, on occasion, a particular forty-five seconds, having often escalated into legendary shouting matches capable of clearing out not only the office but a few paying rooms as well.

There were some scuffles and shouting matches, but everything seems to have been resolved peacefully.

While she liked a good argument as well as the next person, she didn't like for arguments to turn into shouting matches, which was precisely what Chria enjoyed.