Word: vitriolic
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...precise victim of his vitriol, though, remained exasperatingly ambiguous. The Vatican has engaged in fairly frequent shake-ups with thriller writer Dan Brown, including last year’s totally straight-faced denunciation of “The Da Vinci Code” as an “offense against God.” (The spats tend to come off as amusing largely because the church takes him far more seriously than the rest of the world does.) Yet it’s hard to imagine Brown—or previous bête noire J.K. Rowling—creating...
...become part of a way of life - the anger, the hate, the vitriol ... They've now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It's become something else." - Saying his critics have launched an "unrelenting" harassment campaign against him because of his controversial views (New York Daily News...
...overall level of vitriol surrounding both the president’s “undeserved” Nobel Prize and his failed Olympic bid is bewildering simply because neither is in any way a reflection of seriously flawed leadership, political decision-making, or moral judgment on his part...
...body of Bill Sparkman, 51, a substitute teacher and a field worker for the bureau, comes at a time when talk media, tea parties and white-hot town-hall meetings have fanned antigovernment sentiment. Speculation has run rampant that the Sparkman case may be related to the vitriol. Kentucky, like many other Southern states, voted overwhelmingly for Senator John McCain during the 2008 presidential election...
...It’s worth noting Democrats and Republicans have different conceptions of how and why Americans should be responsible. And there’s no denying the strong strategic elements of spewing vitriol. But it all goes beyond both differences in philosophy and basic partisan politics. At the core, many Americans nowadays just don’t want to be told they are obligated to do something by different folks with different strokes...