harangue

1 Cycling at predictable intervals between Keith’s long, interior harangues and his brief, prickly interactions with the director, the play acquires a ticktock rhythm that prevents the buildup of momentum.

2 In Moscow a few weeks ago, a delegation of British journalists was harangued by a leading radical publisher about the need for state subsidy of translation.

3 He harangued the others in a braying voice and punctuated his statements by poking them in the chest with a finger.

4 Her work can sometimes feel relentless but her voice, while forceful, is too restrained and witty to harangue or propagandize.

5 Often, Armstrong recalls getting the last laugh on those who disrespected him — he harangues that gofer, and the studio, too, telling both where to stick their movie.

6 There were demonstrations and marches and agitators haranguing about how foreigners ought to be kicked out of China and how poor people should take money from the rich.

7 When the last priest had left, harangued back to Athens after a mere three months, the family had hoped that Father Mike might be promoted.

8 Interrupting her harangue, I asserted that the simplest form for any regular polymeric molecule was a helix.

9 Kevin Mullin, a first-term Democrat from the Bay Area, who has also declined to call for a cease-fire, was harangued, along with his wife and two small children, by protesters outside his home, including on Christmas.

10 He harangues friends about marketing-speak: A bottle of hand soap is saddled with the phrase “formulated with cleansing agents.”

11 Some matters were covered, but the unanticipated delay pretty much opened the door again to further haranguing about the attorney-client privilege that everyone knew was going to be invoked once the witness arrived and got into the witness stand.

12 In recent campaign appearances, Trump has tended to stand alone on the stage and deliver a harangue, but in Des Moines he was flanked by his sons Eric and Don, Jr., and devoted part of his meandering victory speech to the sports preferences and tall height of his youngest son, Barron.

13 By focusing your concentration on Grace’s gentle smiles and the encouraging twinkle in her eyes, it is almost possible to tune out the plaguing harangues of her persecutor.”

14 At times, she is bullying and sarcastic, haranguing the class about the fallacies of identity and failing or refusing to read the sensitivities in the room.

15 The hardest task belongs to Olson, whose Arash pops up to harangue and boast, as the scene changes on the stage above him.

16 Yes, the man who will spend the next week haranguing about threats to democracy seems to be doing an exceptional job of preventing it in his own party.

17 Even with the missing bones, haranguing pain, and a slight limp, Goldie reported, New Year’s Eve was not a bad “money night.”

18 They were very sweet and stopped the minute they knew I wasn't just a batty old woman haranguing them on the streets of Soho on a Saturday night.

19 One moment he is haranguing the revolutionary tribunal, the next he is arguing that life is a burden.

20 Later on, when he harangues his council, we're conscious of accomplished rhetoric and emotional sincerity jostling within his mind.

1 指责

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2 慷慨激昂的演说

tub-thumping

3 斥责

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4 演讲

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5 高谈阔论

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6 叱责

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7 训斥

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8 呵斥

give hell

9 演说

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