For the weekend, I'll leave you with this, from another Yorkshireman who might have occasionally been something of a ranter. |
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He is not a ranter or raver which is great, because that is not what you want when things are going against you. |
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My mum isn't a ranter and raver like James, she just has an amazing ability to state the obvious, repeat herself and get on your nerves at times. |
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I am vocal on the pitch but have never been a ranter and raver off it. |
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A populist ranter and broadcaster, Walter Winchell, started a campaign to get her rearrested and retried. |
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It seemed a good idea to take a break before I started to believe everyone replying to me was a furious and irrational ranter. |
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As a good ranter, I should be using examples here, but I am usually so disgusted by such behaviour on the part of a female writer that I promptly forget they exist. |
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Never a ranter, Roeder tried to remain calm as the wave began to break. |
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The campaign failed to define the man and his agenda on his own terms before the media and his rivals defined him, on theirs, as a one-note ranter. |
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My Mum isn't a ranter and raver like James, she just has an amazing ability to state the obvious, repeat herself and just get on your nerves at times. |
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From the very earliest stages of his career he was a ranter. |
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Now, allow the ranter to spew while you sit quietly, listening. |
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But he is reluctant to self-identify as a ranter. |
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He is a village explainer rather than a Michele Bachmann-style ranter, but his rapid rise nonetheless encapsulates the radicalization of the Republican Party. |
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And it popped up at the end, when Ralph Nader, the most prominent ranter against money politics, drained votes from Al Gore. Now it should be central to any post-mortem on the election. |
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Williams is a virtuoso ranter and pleader, but, as a rule, he is neither an unsentimental social critic, like Chris Rock, nor a charming rogue, like Jamie Foxx. |
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