philippic in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ fi'lipik ] ]
Examples
- I removed the controversial philippic to talk with the following summary : A detailed critique of an obscure documentary is irrelevant in an encylopaedic text and suggested to him to start an article about the documentary.
- However, this did not succeed in wiping the name of Herostratus from history, because the event appears in " Philippics " of the ancient historian Theopompus and later in the works of Strabo.
- Beccadelli's critics included the theologian Antonio da Rho ( 1395 1447 ), a Franciscan from Milan, who would write a " Philippic against Antonio Panormita " ( 1431 / 32 ).
- In 1570 Wilson published a translation, the first attempted in English, of the " Olynthiacs " and " Philippics " of Demosthenes, on which he had been engaged since 1556.
- Within the album s sequence, the song follows " A Simple Desultory Philippic ( or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission ) ", which is considerably different in tone : a satirical rant regarding pop culture.
- In the " Third Olynthiac " and in the " Third Philippic ", Demosthenes characterised Philip as a " barbarian ", one of the various abusive terms applied by the orator to the king of Macedon.
- He then, moved into a confusing admixture of philippic ( against Braid and Lafontaine ), and polemic ( against animal magnetism ), wherein he concluded that all mesmeric phenomena were due to " satanic agency " . [ 72]
- In the 1st Philippic, delivered on 2 September 44 BC, Cicero declares that Marius was an imposter, an ( unnamed ) runaway slave who had assumed the name of Gaius Marius and had contemplated a massacre of the Senate.
- :: "'Another contemporary "'" " After the publication of another philippic against Government, a meeting of the United Irish of Dublin was dismissed by the sheriff, as persons holding seditious and republican views.
- The only surviving full account before Virgil's treatment is that of Virgil's contemporary Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus in his " Philippic histories " as rendered in a digest or epitome made by Junianus Justinus in the 3rd century AD.