Word: vitriolic
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...baggage to large briefcases, body searching infant children or confiscating toothpaste does not improve security one iota. We welcome the recent moves to restore U.K. airport security to the sensible and effective standards we campaigned for. You say you'd like to "stuff it" to British Airways. Why the vitriol? Anyone charging airfares that are five times higher than Ryanair deserves a bit of abuse from time to time. What do you plan on doing with yourself after Ryanair? Making the world a better place ... by taking a vow of silence...
Scientists didn't need to wait for the chimp genome to begin speculating about the essential differences between humans and apes, of course. They didn't even need to know about DNA. Much of the vitriol directed at Charles Darwin a century and a half ago came not from his ideas about evolution in general but from his insulting but logical implication that humans and the African apes are descended from a common ancestor...
...time has passed since the initial publication, the vitriol of the original criticisms has faded, replaced with a more nuanced and collegial discussion. This was evidenced by the debate in Foreign Policy magazine, where three scholars assembled to criticize Walt and Mearsheimer, and one rose to defend them...
...achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush...
...achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Académie Française, which defends the standards of the language, he recently rebuked his countrymen, saying, "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush...