Ms Gillard's 15 minutes of invective brought her more than 15 minutes of global fame.
That is the gist of some virtuoso invective by Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who died in 2003.
After weeks of denouncing and demeaning each other, bitter rivals ended the invective.
She delivered 15 minutes of invective that has now entered the annals of Australian political history as "the misogyny speech".
As Israel's top diplomat, Mr Lieberman's hardline policies, blunt invective and disregard for political correctness have raised concern domestically and internationally.
It takes intelligence and character to listen to the other side and use facts and logic rather than hatred and invective.
He was funny and biting, deftly mixing high principle with low invective.
Their commitment to revelry and ribald invective vastly superseded their athletic duties.
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Regrettably, most people cannot: Folks reflexively react to errors by either externalizing blame or, more problematically, hitting themselves with self-deprecatory, ad hominem invective.
He pumps iron, and spews invective, while working out at Serious Strength, a gym for the swells on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Her requests have been criticized as rambling in nearly 100, 000-word documents containing language of personal invective that shocked legal experts and veterans of his courtroom.
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Obama has taken no steps to moderate his church's anti-Israel invective.
You can tell a conflict is intractable when you ask the parties to say something nice about the other and all you get is a stream of invective.
Still, it's safe to say the boss isn't going to be happy with a worker who uses Facebook to post invective-strewn rants, or to reveal proprietary, confidential or embarrassing information.
Though, come to think of it, were the definition expanded to devices such as automated telephone receptionists, upon which I've been know to release a flood of invective, he may have a point.
His unerring nose for pretense in the art world and American life, and his gift for comic invective when faced with political correctness and euphemism, alienated him from both the left and the right.
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