He was notoriously scornful of the government's attempts to reinstate the Irish language ( which he referred to as " Woolworth's Irish "), proposing that funding be used instead for housing and school health services, and remained perpetually suspicious of Éamon de Valera, against whose economic policies, character, and personal appearance he often hurled invectives during Seanad proceedings.

He sometimes used his column to deliver pointed invectives against political opponents, and at other times used it as a kind of professor of political theory, educating ANC cadres on the intellectual justifications for ANC policy.

Manto created a new tell-all style of writing sketches, as described in his own words: " I have no camera which could wash out the small pox marks from Hashar Kashmiri's face or change the obscene invectives uttered by him in his flowery style ".

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

He wrote a number of panegyrics on the consulship of his patrons, praise poems for the deeds of Stilicho, and invectives directed at Stilicho's rivals in the Eastern court of Arcadius.

Passionate, impetuously imaginative, emotional, rebellious and imbued with romantic nationalist sentiment, his poems about freedom, his invectives against tyranny and his verses of lyric confession resonate with romantic pathos.

It was his duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and epics, to abuse their enemies in libels and invectives, to salute them with encomiastic odes on their birthdays, and to compose poems on their favorite themes.

In 2006, he published his first autobiographical book, Reduce (" Returned / Survivor "), in which he describes his new poetics and views on life through childhood memories, poems and invectives against the contemporary world.

Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams – his poem 85 is one of the latter.

Although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient Greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as Homer and Hesiod, yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame — his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancee and her father to suicide.

* Ratti, S. " Une lecture religieuse des invectives de Claudien est-elle possible?

But the Sachsenhausen Appeal of the same King Louis ( 22 May 1324 ) was full of invectives against the " heretic who falsely designates himself Pope John XXII " for doing away with the poverty of Christ.

The invectives of Gregory of Nazianzus against Maximus were written after their struggle for the patriarchate, and contrast starkly with the praises of his twenty-fifth Oration.

Brownlow's uncompromising and radical viewpoints and his relentless invectives against his opponents made him one of the most divisive figures in Tennessee political history and one of the most controversial politicians of the Reconstruction-era South.

Although excluded by a majority of the House of Commons from the list of the managers of that impeachment, Francis was nonetheless its most energetic promoter, supplying his friends Edmund Burke and Richard Sheridan with all the materials for their eloquent orations and burning invectives.

Public opinion was deeply moved by two publications: one, that of the indictment of Dreyfus ( in Le Siècle, 6 January 1898 ), which was absolutely remarkable for its lack of proof ; the other ( Le Figaro, 28 November 1897 ), that of letters written twelve years before by Esterhazy to his mistress, Madame de Boulancy, in which he launched furious invectives against his " cowardly and ignorant " chiefs, against " the fine army of France ," against the entire French nation.

In her first volume of poetry ( 1528 ) the Lutherans are scarcely mentioned and focus lies on her personal experience of faith, but in that of 1538 every page is occupied with invectives against them.

Curtius, on the contrary, represents him as breaking out into violent invectives against the ambition of Perdiccas, and abruptly quitting the assembly, in order to excite the soldiery to a tumult.

Among contemporaries he passed for one of the most formidable polemical or gladiatorial rhetoricians ; and a considerable section of his extant works are invectives.

But his most famous compositions in this kind are the personal invectives which he discharged against Francesco Filelfo and Lorenzo Valla.

The book was born as a response to the anti-Islamic invectives published by the Italian journalist and author Oriana Fallaci on the daily Il Corriere della Sera on 29 September 2001.

" The high court reminded Soriano that his program, being aired on television, is accessible to children of all ages and therefore not appropriate for a program with a “ G ” or for general audience rating due to his use of vulgar language and invectives.

These new ideas are shown in the Sirventese genre, and later, Dante's Commedia: his lines are full of invectives against contemporary political leaders and popes.

The treaty gained additional prominence due to the chronicler Matthew Paris ( c. 1200 – 1259 ), who is known for his rhetorical passion and his invectives against those with whom he disagreed.

In Latin, the genre grew in prestige and boldness, as major authors including Juvenal and Catullus wrote extended invectives without the cushion of anonymity.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

Lesser taboo terms include " pony and trap " for " crap " ( as in defecate, but often used to denote nonsense or low quality ); to blow a raspberry ( rude sound of derision ) from raspberry tart for " fart "; " D ' Oyly Carte " for " fart "; " Jimmy Riddle " for " piddle " ( as in urinate ), " J. Arthur Rank " ( a film mogul ), or " ham shank " for " wank ", " Bristol Cities " ( contracted to ' Bristols ') for " titties ", etc.

* Thomas Palmer — the husband of Charlotte Palmer who is running for a seat in Parliament, but is idle and often rude.

Another spin-off was " Roger's Profanisaurus ", a thesaurus of ( often freshly coined ) rude words, phrases and sexual slang submitted by readers.

The rude ways of the Highlanders were often scorned, but their toughness also called forth a degree of admiration among " hard " primitivists, just that of the Spartans and the Germans had done in antiquity.

Like most other characters, Danny is most often rude to his elders, on one occasion asking Smiffy to speak up because he couldn't hear him over ' teacher '.

Playing games without the permission of the entire square ( and often the caller ) can be considered extremely rude, and may confuse other squares as well.

His sharp, and albeit often rude, quick wit has led him in some storylines to working part-time as a stand-up ( often insult ) comedian at a Riverdale comedy club, and hopes to perform professionally someday.

Another problem is that naming people was considered rude in Heian court society, so none of the characters are named within the work ; instead, the narrator refers to men often by their rank or their station in life, and to women often by the color of their clothing, or by the words used at a meeting, or by the rank of a prominent male relative.

On the contrary Papi despises Suga Mama and often makes rude remarks about her in Spanish which she thinks are compliments.

* Swapping of ball-A tactic often employed when the batsman at the crease is considered by the majority of the participating players to be of an irritating nature, rude, ugly or to possess any feature which the bowler dislikes.

Veblen's house was often a mess, with unmade beds and dirty dishes ; his clothes were often in disarray ; he was an agnostic ; and he tended to be blunt and rude while dealing with other people .< ref > John Kenneth Galbraith, in the Introduction of

Jane has a problem talking to men, often coming on much too strong and appearing desperate or rude to others in her pursuit of a man.

It is often considered rude and a social taboo in many parts of the world, including Western countries – where it is frequently forbidden by local laws, because it was thought to facilitate the spread of disease ; the laws are generally not strictly enforced.

He is often unshaven, frequently intoxicated ( indicated by a prominent red nose and dishevelled clothing ), lazy, freeloading, belligerent and confrontational — but just as frequently lovable ( he always refers to Flo as " pet ", and will instantly " bop " anyone who dares to be rude to her ).

As in first-person shooters, this is looked down upon as a rude practice due to the stalemate that often results, with neither side able to gain a victory over the other.

Yawning is often perceived as rude due to the implication of boredom, and a loud yawn may even lead to penalties for contempt of court.

A few years earlier, the King of Loulan had died, and with Xiongnu support, one of his sons, Angui ( 安歸 ) succeeded him, and Angui started a policy of befriending Xiongnu and resisting Han, particularly because Luolan's geographical location meant that it was often ordered by Han to escort its imperial messengers, who were also rude to Luolan officials.

She is often bossy or even rude to Max, often losing patience with him, however, she does love him.

These years had a great influence on Vlad, as he was often whipped and beaten by the Turks for being stubborn and rude.