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  • His laughter interrupted my mental tirade.   (source)
    tirade = speech of angry criticism
  • He keeps up his tirade as... But what really makes me bitter is that I allow you chaps a little freedom in here — when business is bad and what do you do with it?   (source)
  • After her tirade down at the store last week, how can you think it's just me and Sister keepin' the town talkin'?   (source)
  • During Lucky's tirade the others react as follows.   (source)
  • The only things that really caught my attention were occasional phrases, his gestures, and some elaborate tirades—but these were isolated patches.   (source)
    tirades = speeches of angry criticism
  • ...that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's...   (source)
    tirade = a speech of angry criticism
  • Like all our dictators, he started by addressing the nation on TV, beginning, "Mere aziz hamwatano"—"My dear countrymen"—then went into a long tirade against Sharif, saying under him Pakistan had "lost our honor, dignity and respect."†   (source)
  • A note about hillbilly loyalty: Reminded of that story recently, Lindsay launched into a tirade about how much of a loser the kid was†   (source)
  • He loved his brother but had learned to ignore his occasional "do as I say, not as I do" tirades.†   (source)
  • At that point, Hansford launched into an irrational tirade against his mother, his girlfriend Bonnie and his buddy George Hill.†   (source)
  • Constance asked, launching into a tirade about how ill-prepared they were, how little time they had, and how this plan was giving her a worse headache than the hidden-message broadcasts did.†   (source)
  • Pudge is done with staring out the window, and I'm done with going on tirades about it, but he's a terrible teacher, and you won't convince me otherwise.†   (source)
  • Mammachi continued her tirade, her eyes empty, her face twisted and ugly, her anger propelling her towards Velutha until she was shouting right into his face and he could feel the spray of her spit and smell the stale tea on her breath.†   (source)
  • They watched him cross the lobby, touch Mrs. Brant's elbow deferentially, and spread his hands and nod when she turned her tirade on him.†   (source)
  • Stopping mid-tirade, he asked, "How would you bring down that bird?"†   (source)
  • Inside the Jungle, Director Sato had just received a phone call from a field agent and had immediately flown into a tirade.†   (source)
  • Hearthstone flew into another sign language tirade: Told you!†   (source)
  • But when he interrupted her tirade, his voice took me by surprise, especially considering how sharp he'd been with her when she wasn't screeching at him.†   (source)
  • And so he went on in a tirade, saying much the same things he'd said to me many times over: know your nature, kill, be what you are.†   (source)
  • Simon interrupted her tirade.†   (source)
  • For the first time Aureliano Segundo had to tolerate the harsh expressions and the violent tirades of his concubine, and he was even afraid that his wandering trunks would make the return journey to his wife's house.†   (source)
  • Listening to it was like enduring a blistering, hackle-raising tirade.†   (source)
  • Parents made sure the kids were inside and the doors locked during these tirades.†   (source)
  • Miss Riley didn't even blink during my little tirade.†   (source)
  • "You like him," the bartender teased as Wesley, after enduring a verbal tirade from yours truly, went off to dance with a giggling bimbo.†   (source)
  • I'm waiting for her tirade, her recriminations, all the things I have coming.†   (source)
  • I steeled myself for her tirade.†   (source)
  • I shake my head as Amanda launches into a tirade of accusations.†   (source)
  • Mattie was stunned by Etta's tirade.†   (source)
  • I start to thank Brigid for helping me to my feet, but she's only just begun her tirade.†   (source)
  • Finished with her planned tirade, Kelley regained her composure and drove to the east side of Hot Springs to comb the streets.†   (source)
  • Kiyo must have felt something similar, because at the height of Papa's tirade he threw his covers back, and in his underwear he jumped out of bed yelling, "Stop it, Papa?†   (source)
  • But her tirade kindled in Johnnie no heat of personal anger.†   (source)
  • I waited until Moody paused in his tirade.†   (source)
  • Throughout Max's tirade, David had held fast and simply listened.†   (source)
  • She blinked, taken aback by his tirade.†   (source)
  • Before I could blink, Grandmother launched into another tirade.†   (source)
  • Some suspend-your-disbelief fiction about how picture-perfect life was at home, forget the whole dysfunctional truth about Dad's alcohol-fueled tirades?†   (source)
  • So far I've only seen a few faces I recognize: a boy who was in my history class, sitting by himself reading a book, and a couple of girls from math, who are giggling with angry Barbie of front office tirade fame.†   (source)
  • When her father was away, she seemed able to quiet her mother's nerves and soothe her fretfulness, and one could work there without fear of tirades.†   (source)
  • Silent Tom's tirade lasted a full five minutes.†   (source)
  • I expected nothing less than this tirade.†   (source)
  • Mark tried to stop her angry tirade, but Courtney was on a roll.†   (source)
  • "Hicks!" he yelled out, trying to remain focused on his tirade.†   (source)
  • The parliamentarians and ministers he met with almost immediately broke into long moralistic tirades about the evils of slavery and the need to abolish it worldwide.†   (source)
  • On one of the last occasions that my mother left my father, after the tirade that was brief, loud, alcoholically one-sided, she told him she was leaving him at moo P.M. She bundled us all up and, after my father grabbed the car key and threw it into the darkness of a hundred tea bushes, she got four servants and with each of us on a pair of shoulders, marched off through tea estate and dense jungle in utter darkness to a neighbouring home five miles away.†   (source)
  • She didn't talk much, and when she did, it was usually a bitter tirade against Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon.†   (source)
  • "I'll keep that in mind," Abby told him, and she gave him a quick pat on the arm as if to thank him, but what she really meant to convey was that she had already put his father's tirade out of her mind and she hoped that he would do the same.†   (source)
  • I will skim over all but the worst of his tirade.†   (source)
  • Edmund has looked away from him, trying to ignore this tirade.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown and her tirades seemed less amusing to me.†   (source)
  • Though Loch was gratified with the outrage mounting-three people now were in the vacant house-and could consider whether the old woman might have come to rout out the other two and give them her tirade, he was puzzled when the chandelier lighted up in the parlor.†   (source)
  • He actually had Miep bring him a book, an anti-Mussolini tirade, which has been banned.   (source)
    tirade = speech of angry criticism
  • Curiosity got the better of her then, as she imagined a tirade thrown down from the wrath of Rosa.   (source)
  • I noticed that all during her tirade she didn't once move any closer to me.   (source)
  • I mentioned something to that effect while we were doing the dishes, and Dussel launched into a veritable tirade.   (source)
  • I wasn't doing it on purpose, but I'd followed her tirade so intently that my reaction was completely involuntary.   (source)
  • More than anything, she wanted to give Richard a verbal lashing in public, the kind of high-volume tirade that included pointed forefingers being poked into his chest.   (source)
  • "I propose a trade," Clary said quickly, cutting off Lily's tirade and Jacob's retort.†   (source)
  • It was a tirade, silent, controlled, but filled with a fierce anger.†   (source)
  • I heard laughter and turned to see that two men and a young woman had come in during his tirade.†   (source)
  • Aside from Leah's tirade and the resulting guilt.†   (source)
  • She watched me for a moment, as if to make sure my tirade was complete.†   (source)
  • His tirade seemed to have left him spent and slightly embarrassed.†   (source)
  • Brigman resumed his tirade: "I won't let you squander our lives merely to assuage your pride.†   (source)
  • When her tirade finally wound down, she ended up staring at the ground, spent.†   (source)
  • Before Miss Boon could continue her tirade, the door to their suite opened.†   (source)
  • Jack sprang to life, spewing a tirade of insults I can't really repeat.†   (source)
  • Sarah had long ago perfected the art of the addict's vitriolic tirade.†   (source)
  • He also carried on a never-ending tirade against the American embargo on arms shipments to Iran.†   (source)
  • Rellin answered with a seething yet controlled tirade that Osa translated for me.†   (source)
  • Nor could I forgive Mrs. Brown her little tirades.†   (source)
  • Before falling asleep, I'm hit with another wave of sadness over the courtyard scene, but I feel absolved, too, as if his tirade was an act of mercy.†   (source)
  • I turned around so I could face him and was met with a fusillade of saliva as he continued his tirade.†   (source)
  • As she finished her tirade, the tall, elegant silhouette of Warren Bellamy emerged from the shadows and stepped into the sitting room.†   (source)
  • He endlessly chastises fellow clients, lets loose bigoted tirades and maligns Robinson for offering safe harbor to those who cuss, smoke or otherwise violate his sense of civility.†   (source)
  • After that, the tirade would commence, no doubt a repeat of the outraged, condescending lectures she had delivered when Amanda was a teenager.†   (source)
  • Halfway through her tirade, Clary's hearing switched back on, like a radio that had finally found a station within range.†   (source)
  • Stammering incoherent apologies, the student stooped to gather up his things and braced for the inevitable tirade.†   (source)
  • Outrage gripped Eragon when none of the other clan chiefs replied, and he was about to answer Vermund's tirade with harsh words of his own when Orik glanced over at him and shook his head ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • Hungry, she did, and when she challenged him about his motives (she assumed she knew his reasons and could remember gearing up for quite the embarrassing public tirade about cradle robbers and jail time), Jim denied any improper interest in her.†   (source)
  • She nodded, feeling as if she'd been placed in the corner by her teacher, still thinking about her tirade on Saturday night.†   (source)
  • As Angela returned to stirring her concoction, Eragon said, "That was an impressive tirade you gave."†   (source)
  • With me sitting in the swing and Mama in the tall porch rocker, she launched into a tirade about desecration of the Sabbath.†   (source)
  • "There's something you should know about Kayla Robinson," I .99 said suddenly, interrupting the short cop's boring tirade.†   (source)
  • We spent the afternoon at their home, Mahtob in my lap, curled into the fetal Position, clinging to me, listening tearfully as Moody launched into a tirade.†   (source)
  • I was ready to launch into a tirade against the oppression of women in Iran, but all around me hovered insolent, superior-looking men fingering their tassbeads and mumbling "AlIahu akbar," as women wrapped in chadors sat in quiet subservience.†   (source)
  • , yet actually, now it did not seem to matter: Miss, shrouded in the lavender fumes of his fortieth Ibar cigarette of that day, suddenly broke off his tirade against the Gauleiter of Nuremberg, gave the pamphlet a flat little tap with his fingertips and said something which made her heart feel like a hot ball of lead.†   (source)
  • Gant added this to his tirades against Eliza; all that was bad in the boy his mother had given him.†   (source)
  • Through all this tirade ran the high quivering exhalation of physical pain—actual and undeniable.†   (source)
  • After his punctual morning tirade at Eliza, he went about the rousing of the slumbering children.†   (source)
  • He spoke of old age often, and he wept in his tirades now because of his stiffened hand.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, during his evening tirades, she would snap back at him using the project as a threat.†   (source)
  • Johnnie, as Irish as she, finally erupted into rage at her naggings and threatened to quit, after a long tirade which ended with "and the back of both me hands to you, Ma'm, and the curse of Cromwell on you.†   (source)
  • He would sit at night, oblivious of her tirade, gravely chewing his long cigar, absorbed in his charts, or in a late issue of System or of The American Magazine.†   (source)
  • Then, biting off a good hunk of powerful apple tobacco, which lay ready for his use on the mantel, he would pace back and forth across his room fiercely, oblivious of his grinning family who followed these ceremonies with exultant excitement, as he composed his tirade.†   (source)
  • She fed him willingly enough, but his tirades and his nightly sojourns, both longer and more frequent now that his daughter was absent, annoyed her more than they ever had before.†   (source)
  • It was, perhaps, a reversal of custom that the deep-hungering spirit of quest belonged to the one with the greatest love of order, the most pious regard for ritual, who wove into a pattern even his daily tirades of abuse, and that the sprawling blot of chaos, animated by one all-mastering desire for possession, belonged to the practical, the daily person.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alleyne began a tirade of abuse, saying that two letters were missing.†   (source)
  • Through his tirade, Martin and Leora smiled confidently.†   (source)
  • When the engineer's noisy tirade was finished, he said, "That is exactly my own view.†   (source)
  • "You might have spared yourself the trouble of delivering that tirade," answered Georgiana.†   (source)
  • Ivan concluded his long tirade with marked and unexpected feeling.†   (source)
  • Do you understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?†   (source)
  • He had never expected such a tirade from the gentle Alyosha.†   (source)
  • But what Lord Grenville thought of this matter, or to what reflections this comely tirade of Lady Portarles led the Comtesse de Tournay, remained unspoken, for the curtain had just risen on the third act of ORPHEUS, and admonishments to silence came from every part of the house.†   (source)
  • The hunters piled pell-mell out of the steerage, but as Leach's tirade continued I saw that there was no levity in their faces.†   (source)
  • As for the vulgar and affected tirades in which the painter sometimes indulged, the bag-man's pleasantries which Cottard used to hazard,—whereas Swann, who liked both men sincerely, could easily find excuses for these without having either the courage or the hypocrisy to applaud them, Forcheville, on the other hand, was on an intellectual level which permitted him to be stupified, amazed by the invective (without in the least understanding what it all was about), and to be frankly delighted by the wit.†   (source)
  • All this heated tirade, this outflow of passionate words and ecstatic ideas which seemed to hustle and tumble over each other as they fell from his lips, bore evidence of some unusually disturbed mental condition in the young fellow who had "boiled over" in such a remarkable manner, without any apparent reason.†   (source)
  • —I can't eat a mouthful of this stuff, you know," he added suddenly, pushing back his plate with a clouded countenance; and Lily, unfailingly adaptable, accorded her radiant attention to his prolonged denunciation of other people's cooks, with a supplementary tirade on the toxic qualities of melted butter.†   (source)
  • Even atheists reproach me with infidelity and anarchists with nihilism because I cannot endure their moral tirades.†   (source)
  • He had not any idea that Florence could have committed suicide without writing at least a tirade to him.†   (source)
  • "I hate everyone," she cried suddenly, and then broke forth into a tirade that frightened her escort.†   (source)
  • Well, let me tell you, I'm not going to have—" Overwhelmed she bent to his unprecedented tirade, and in answer she mourned: "Oh, dearest, I don't think that's true.†   (source)
  • He tried to yell a break into her tirade; and not till he had seized her in brutal hands, to shake her as if she had been a rat, did she stop.†   (source)
  • But while he was meditating a reply Athelny, more interested in hearing himself speak than in discussion, broke into a tirade upon Roman Catholicism.†   (source)
  • Go away, Rogojin, I don't want you," she continued, blind with fury, and forcing the words out with dry lips and distorted features, evidently not believing a single word of her own tirade, but, at the same time, doing her utmost to prolong the moment of self-deception.†   (source)
  • This tirade against destiny went on for an hour or more, and then he buckled to his work, limping and groaning, and in his eyes a great hatred for all created things.†   (source)
  • The laboratory in which they talked (Gottlieb pacing the floor, his long arms fantastically knotted behind his thin back; Martin leaping on and off tall stools) was not in the least remarkable—a sink, a bench with racks of numbered test-tubes, a microscope, a few note-books and hydrogen-ion charts, a grotesque series of bottles connected by glass and rubber tubes on an ordinary kitchen table at the end of the room—yet now and then during his tirades Martin looked about reverently.†   (source)
  • The tirade continued: it was so bitter and violent that the man could hardly restrain his fist from descending upon the head of the manikin before him: "I know nothing about any other two letters," he said stupidly.†   (source)
  • Although the meaning of his tirade was beyond her, she grasped that it was to be included among the scenes of reproach or supplication, scenes which her familiarity with the ways of men enabled her, without paying any heed to the words that were uttered, to conclude that men would not make unless they were in love; that, from the moment when they were in love, it was superfluous to obey them, since they would only be more in love later on.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a obstinater young rascal—' 'It's not of him I want to hear; I've heard enough of him,' said the stranger, stopping Mr. Bumble in the outset of a tirade on the subject of poor Oliver's vices.†   (source)
  • Ralph, who was no common observer, was surprised to see that as this tirade proceeded, the manner of Lord Frederick Verisopht, who at the commencement had been twirling his whiskers with a most dandified and listless air, underwent a complete alteration.†   (source)
  • As he uttered the last word of his tirade, Miuesov completely recovered his self-complacency, and all traces of his former irritation disappeared.†   (source)
  • Gringoire enjoyed seeing, feeling, fingering, so to speak an entire assembly (of knaves, it is true, but what matters that ?) stupefied, petrified, and as though asphyxiated in the presence of the incommensurable tirades which welled up every instant from all parts of his bridal song.†   (source)
  • People coming disturbing women at this time of night ought—" Gabriel took the key, without waiting to hear the conclusion of the tirade.†   (source)
  • Milady had listened to all this menacing tirade with a smile of disdain on her lips, but rage in her heart.†   (source)
  • The insulted King threw the bundle on the ground; and the blanket fell away from it just as the woman arrived, with an augmenting crowd at her heels; she seized the King's wrist with one hand, snatched up her bundle with the other, and began to pour out a tirade of abuse upon the boy while he struggled, without success, to free himself from her grip.†   (source)
  • "I do," Raskolnikov answered firmly; as he said these words and during the whole preceding tirade he kept his eyes on one spot on the carpet.†   (source)
  • When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed (the tirade was accompanied throughout by tears) her whole face worked convulsively.†   (source)
  • I don't imagine that you were a party to a very fine tirade of words sent me by that boy of yours, because I don't believe that under his control, you have the slightest will of your own, or that your advice, your opinion, your wants, your wishes, anything which in nature and reason (or of what use is your great experience?) ought to weigh with him, has the slightest influence or weight whatever, or is taken for a moment into account.'†   (source)
  • Mitya was jumping up with the obvious intention of delivering another tirade, but the words did not come.†   (source)
  • But as soon as he had uttered his foolish tirade, he felt he had been talking absurd nonsense, and at once longed to prove to his audience, and above all to himself, that he had not been talking nonsense.†   (source)
  • Refusing a second helping of stew, Jamie left the table abruptly, putting an end to Alec's tirade.†   (source)
  • I was shaking again, from cold and shock and the force of my tirade.†   (source)
  • JACKSON UNLEASHES NICOTINE-DEPRIVED LUNCHTIME TIRADE†   (source)
  • Why, someone could come up behind ye and clap a pistol to your head before ye knew—" He stopped in his tirade to stare incredulously at me, rolling on the grass in hysterics.†   (source)
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