philippic

• Even Greeley's historic philippic, as famous for its style as for its deadly venom, came in revenge for Tweed's supposed part in defeating him for Congress in 1866. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• The speech was not intended as a philippic; it was designed as a careful exposition of the Virginia debt question, as an argument in support of the Readjuster party, and an arraignment of the Bourbons. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
• When he was in the midst of a very eloquent and violent philippic, the Chairman of the Committee, Bainbridge Wadleigh, said quietly, "Brother Saulsbury, haven't you made up your mind?" —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
• In me Christianity ... devours itself In truth, the present philippic is as necessary to the completeness of the whole of Nietzsche's system as the keystone is to the arch. —  The Antichrist
• This philippic was well deserved by the government; had they really desired that the pear should ripen before they plucked it, they could not have proceeded otherwise than they did. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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