That's why nomination fights over jurists for the federal bench have become increasingly vitriolic and bitter.
The second most hotly awaited witness, Skilling reportedly seemed at turns skittish, hesitant and occasionally vitriolic.
But the vitriolic tone also reflects the mood of the politicians' and journalists' audience.
Still, Mr Spitzer has been relentless in attacking Mr Bruno, who has been equally vitriolic in return.
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Online Tuesday, Sabu became the target of vitriolic criticism from sympathizers of Anonymous.
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Laila Robins gives a spirited, often vitriolic performance as despairing Alice, married for 25 "hellish" years to Edgar, (Daniel Davis).
The reaction to his remarks has been no less vitriolic, and in some ways more disturbing, than the original offence.
That seemingly harmless suggestion triggered a vitriolic response: Hundreds of angry letters poured in excoriating Nixon--and us for broaching the idea.
No wonder he was vitriolic about authors he considered had easy success.
They were duly offended, and started a vitriolic campaign against the organisers.
We haven't had the full statement yet, but initial responses are as you would expect but maybe not as vitriolic as you would expect.
Others have pointed out that vitriolic, violent rhetoric is a multi-partisan indulgence (here are Jonathan S. Tobin, for example, and Nick Gillespie).
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By making his historical scholarship the handmaiden of a vitriolic vengefulness, Mr Finkelstein overplays his hand and ultimately diminishes the impact of his case.
Clinton, cowed by the vitriolic backlash to her comment, heartily agreed.
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The shooting has sparked horror across the United States and generated much partisan talk about vitriolic political discourse in American life and what Loughner's motivations were.
That was always overblown to some extent but when that did come out and expressed itself in vitriolic briefings against Gordon ... then inevitably part of my job was reacting to that.
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally, if probably temporarily, taken the energy out of last summer's vitriolic "food-versus-fuel " debate.
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But just two years later, following a vitriolic debate characterized by much disinformation, only Democrats voted for the bill that closed the gaping loophole left by GINDA, applying those protections to all: the healthy, diseased, and pre-diseased.
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He accused Labour backbencher Frank Field and former Blairite cabinet ministers Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers of "vitriolic" comments and said he would not have been doing his jobs had he not responded "in some kind".
Ms. RODGERS: Well, Ian Paisley, who's the leader of the main Unionist party, the DUP, which obviously favors unity with Britain--his response, while not exactly welcoming, has not been as vitriolic as it has been in the past.
Filming with a puckishly bland interview-style fixed camera and sarcastic cityscapes, Ying convincingly depicts a state of repressed volatility which, when it blows, does so with a far-reaching, vitriolic, righteous audacity that has few parallels in the modern cinema.
If you need empirical evidence to gauge the intensity of the vitriolic fervor pent up among jilted Cleveland Cavalier fans still angered over the LeBron James relocation to South Beach, look no further than the Stubhub data on secondary ticket prices.
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Those vitriolic times did not see any of the deeper issues resolved, however, and so the world of whaling went through two years of attempted peace and reconciliation in which everyone tried to be nice to everyone else in public while making efforts behind the scenes to find common ground.
Whatever happens in the coming years in Los Angeles, there is widespread agreement among players that the region won't cultivate the passionate heartbreak of Chicago, the religious fervor of Red Sox Nation, the congenital, tribal pride New York's fans take in their teams, the vitriolic devotion of Philadelphia or the cerebral study of the game that occurs in St.
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