Example sentences for: diatribe

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  • In "A Brief History of Taxes," the chart she runs with her diatribe against supply-side economics is worthless, as even Paul Krugman would advise, because it accounts for neither the efficiency of the market in discounting changes in tax law throughout the legislative process, nor the volatility of monetary policy during the last 30 years of a floating dollar.

  • Cameron's mad- as-hell diatribe, which called for Turan's "impeachment," got gleefully picked up by everyone from the newsweeklies to Doonesbury.

  • It is as if you looked up, say, infer/imply in a usage manual and the author's treatment, in place of an explanation and sound advice, were an unpleasant diatribe against anyone so dense and rude as to have had to look up the entry to begin with.

  • Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.

  • From her diatribe in Harper's , you'd think Smiley was out to revive Stowian melodrama, with its coincidences, angelic children, and neat distinctions between good and evil.


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