All 6 Uses of

harangue

in

The House of the Spirits

The patrones threw them a big party with empanadas and lots of wine, barbecued a few cows specially slaughtered for the occasion, serenaded them with songs accompanied on the guitar, beat them over the head with a few political harangues, and promised them that if the conservative candidate won the election they would all receive a bonus, but that if he lost they would lose their jobs.†
Chpt 2

He shouted like a madman, pacing up and down the living room and slamming his fist against the furniture, arguing that if Clara intended to follow in her mother's footsteps she was going to come face to face with a real man, who would pull her pants down and give her a good spanking so she'd get it out of her damned head to go around haranguing people, and that he categorically forbade her to go to prayer meetings or any other kind and that he wasn't some ninny whose wife could go around making a fool of him.†
Chpt 4

haranguing = trying to persuade, or criticizing in an impassioned and often annoying manner

She was too busy putting things on the table and taking them away, and keeping an eye on her daughter, but as she removed the soup bowl with the leftover lentils she caught the final words of her husband's harangue.†
Chpt 5 *

It was Pedro Tercero Garcia, who hadn't wanted to miss his grandfather's funeral and took advantage of the borrowed cassock to harangue the workers house by house, explaining that the coming elections were their chance to shake off the yoke under which they had always lived.†
Chpt 6

That night they sang to keep their spirits up, and when they grew tired of harangues, discussions, and songs, they settled into little groups to get through the night as best they could.†
Chpt 11

Blanca knew all the tenants and had taught many of them to read in the little school-house of Tres Marias, so they began to talk about the bygone days when the Sanchez brothers imposed their law on the region, when old Pedro Garcia had ended the plague of ants, and when the President had been an eternal candidate, standing in the station to harangue them from the train of his defeat.†
Chpt 12

Definition:

to try to persuade, or to criticize in an impassioned and often annoying manner; or a speech with such an intent