Phillipic

Perhaps, as things lurch from bad to worse, there will come a time for some blistering Phillipic - no pun intended, but cataracts have to ripen before the eye is relieved of them.

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Students should have some idea of what a Phillipic or a Jeremiad or a siren song is.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Classical or Biblical Allusions: 2007

So strong is the soporific influence of the Phillipic drama, that not until hours after the play is over, does the average spectator become sufficiently wakeful to express an intelligible regret that Mr. WALLER and Mr.. MOLLENHAUER should not have made their reappearance on the stage in some drama in which they could have had an opportunity to act, and in which the public could have taken some little interest.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

You -- all of you -- with your lazy, thick bodies trussed into your straight fronts and your fat feet crammed into bursting pumps and your idle hands blazing with jewels "(I know I was bromidic there, but my Phillipic was too swift to be polished)" and your empty heads dyed and marcelled, you're not loaf-givers, -- you're not givers at all, you're takers!

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

Paul Simon also wrote "A Simple Desultory Phillipic or How I was Robert McNamara'd/Lyndon Johnsoned Into Submission".

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