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Example sentences for: screed

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Critics term it "a silly, roiling melange of special effects and overheated religious symbolism" that is at heart a "half-baked anticlerical screed" with "lots of broken glass, bird feathers, dripping blood and desperately fancy camera angles" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit a fan page devoted to the film.)
Dowd describes Fallows' excellent book on the wrongheaded culture of political journalism, Breaking the News as a "pompous screed" and says he has "a problem recognizing a news story."
It comes as something of a surprise, then, to read The Dark Side of Camelot and find that it is not a trashy conspiracy screed at all.
O'Rourke has an anti-Clinton screed on the NYT op-ed page today.
My instantaneous synonym (appropriate for the context in which I had used it) was screed , which he of course understood; I had to explain that megillah is Hebrew and probably entered (American) English via Yiddish.