tirade

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Left out of the tirade was the lame character who DOES try, but somehow ends up succeding despite, or because of, their lameness.

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  1. noun A long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe.

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  • Forward to 00: 36: 54 into that clip and you'll hear the following (it is the start of the whole segment - and the Mel Gibson reference is referring to his arrest for DUI when he went on his anti-Jew tirade, which is around the same time that this girl was raped / killed): —  Think Progress
  • She was a stern woman who, upon surveying the scene and hearing what had happened, proceeded to launch into what I can only describe as a tirade of abuse aimed at the cleaner. —  Simplicity
  • Bale's almost-four-minute tirade was aimed at Shane Hulbert, who accidentally walked through a scene while film was rolling.
  • The four-letter tirade was apparently sparked by the interruption of photography director Shane Hurlbut during a scene in the making of the latest Terminator movie. —  ITN Headlines
  • News that the four-letter tirade was the result of Bale being distracted during an emotional scene. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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invective ·  harangue ·  diatribe ·  denunciation ·  outburst ·  declamation ·  rejoinder ·  vehemence ·  raving ·  rhapsody ·  retort ·  rebuke

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tirade:   tirades
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  1. French, from Old French, act of firing, from tirer, to draw out, endure, probably back-formation from martirant, present participle of martirer, to torture (influenced by mar, to one's misfortune, and tiranz, executioner, tyrant), from martir, martyr, from Late Latin martyr; see martyr.

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  1. from French tirade, a passage, a long speech in a play, formerly a pull. draught, shooting, =Provencal Spanish tirada, from Italian tirata, a drawing, pulling, from tirate, draw, pull, protract, prolong: see tire.
 

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