They felt that inflaming the situation with a vitriolic confrontation would make them feel more at risk. |
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In the soap opera, viewers were left to speculate about who was responsible for the vitriolic letters. |
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Almost without exception, though, critics saved their most vitriolic attacks for the plan's local contribution requirements. |
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This simply will not do, given the play's premises and vitriolic criticism of capitalism. |
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It's the kind of thing where other people's vitriolic criticism of it makes me suspect I'll really like it. |
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Dadaists were known for their vitriolic personal attacks on the people identified with a movement, idea or company they opposed. |
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The intensity of the raw, vitriolic malice in the sibilant voice was beyond anything in even his fevered, psychotic dreams. |
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A feud between academics over Robert Burns' politics has taken a vitriolic turn with a savage attack by one expert on his rival's book. |
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In 1800 he attempted to prevent Adams's re-election by publishing a vitriolic personal attack on him. |
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Polemical works on a variety of religious issues reveal a bitter and vitriolic side to his nature. |
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She has been on the receiving end of other withering and vitriolic attacks from women columnists. |
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One or two turned vitriolic in their public criticism, and one anonymously accused him of fraud. |
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The cabinet meeting was characterised by vitriolic attacks on the unemployed. |
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I'll try not to take his vitriolic attack on the film personally, and hope that audiences will form their own opinions. |
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Such stirring events provoked a range of responses, and those printed here are bitter, mournful, vitriolic, and celebratory in turn. |
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Racism, homophobia, McCarthyism, classism, it's all on display as they try to muzzle those who disagree by vitriolic, personal attack. |
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An irascible bachelor, he was often vitriolic in his criticism of the work of other artists, and jealous of their successes. |
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It is not hard to see how libels and satires might foster conflict, for they offer mostly vitriolic attacks on individuals or vices. |
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Even then, they fled the party and subjected him to a vitriolic calumny unprecedented in more than 70 years, and he lost. |
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I am very happy with the school and I feel the vitriolic tone of the writing needs comment. |
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A few accolades for a well written, yet vitriolic post, a few extra hits, a few more readers. |
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After enduring savagely vitriolic campaigns on the terraces and in the boardroom, he has stated he will sell his shareholding in the club. |
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Yet on Saturday I was faced with some of the most vitriolic and hateful abuse you can imagine for actually calling something right. |
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His vitriolic diatribes were indeed difficult for those of us in attendance to stomach. |
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Instead of action, lengthy passages are filled with florid adjectives in a series of vitriolic portraits of dislikeable passengers on a train. |
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Those of you who might naively imagine that vitriolic historical disputation is a transient phenomenon of Australian academe should think again. |
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Film critics have rarely been so united in their antipathy, so vitriolic in their condemnation. |
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It can be hard to learn to deal with, especially if you are not used to getting such vitriolic feedback. |
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These discoveries provide sharp contrast to the vitriolic animadversions of Walsingham et al. |
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Television covered vitriolic exchanges between politicians, and riotous confrontations on the streets. |
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Had he been as hateful and vitriolic about ethnic minorities, that letter would never have been printed. |
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Secondly, there is nothing about my post that was bent out of shape, angry or vitriolic. |
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These are some pretty hardcore vitriolic comments mixed with anger and if you notice, they take a sideswipe at us too for printing them. |
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Does Kerry deserve to have the most vitriolic Democrats hung around his neck? |
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Many who had been, in one way or another, sympathetic to socialism before 1915, now distinguished themselves for their vitriolic attacks on the party of alleged defeatism. |
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She, with her saffron robes and shaven head, embodies and personifies hard-core Hindutva without, at this late stage of her public career, having to make vitriolic speeches. |
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Facebook has been a particularly vitriolic breeding ground for the haters. |
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There are no calls for intifada here, no rabid accusations of genocide or similarly vitriolic pronouncements. |
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Adapting some of the most celebrated, sexual, raw, bitter and vitriolic love poems ever written, the drama explores the inspiration behind the sonnets. |
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I am too often shocked by the vitriolic repulsion many people feel for our leader and America in general, especially because the loathing is often poorly informed. |
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I was appalled to read the mayor's vitriolic attack on the homeless. |
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London's ex-police chief has launched a vitriolic attack on the minister. |
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A string of vitriolic insults were hurled at the referee who should have at least administered a yellow card for diving if he felt a penalty was the wrong decision. |
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Parody-accusation is all well and good, but the gambit is becoming so commonplace I fear for the very future of vitriolic anti-feminist commentary. |
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By the time Budden began the final round, the audience was vitriolic, already turned against him. |
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This represents a level of vitriolic polarization unthinkable even four years ago. |
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The vitriolic discourse can also be linked to bias-based violence against other communities. |
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The year he was mustered out of the navy, he ran the first of two vitriolic campaigns in California that established his reputation as a man always on the attack. |
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The experience left them sanguine about the sometimes vitriolic opinions of strangers on the Internet. |
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Indeed, the vitriolic rants of several pundits smacks of jealousy. |
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For women on the Internet, vitriolic abuse is simply a fact of life. |
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Oblivious to the vitriolic hatred of which they are victims, my nemeses are able to carry on their lives in unassuming ignorance. |
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But those who argue self-righteously that beauty comes from within have never been the target of vitriolic bullies. |
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No matter the association, the powerful emotional responses that guns elicit are largely responsible for the stagnant and vitriolic nature of the current gun control debate. |
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