Philippics

This was clearly true on Jan. 6 in the United States, where every major institution was against the Trumpists, leading to populist philippics against not only the news media and the courts but also the FBI and the military.

There were two, visual philippics: Trump refusing to shake the hand of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. -- and the speaker later shredding Trump’s remarks like they were junk mail.

As relations with Mark Antony broke down, Cicero moved to open condemnation, delivering no fewer than fourteen Philippics* denouncing Antony.

The newspaper accounts weren’t just full of mean philippics that hurt people’s feelings.

������ was less welcome in Ms. Adler’s Kael piece, as in so many of her later philippics, is her easy slide into bombast and overkill.