states that he regards a writer as a postmodernist "so far as she repudiates the norms of cognition and evaluation that were propounded and applied by thinkers of the Old Enlightenment, and
inveighs against the abuses to which they may be supposed to have given rise" (xi).
In a polemical digression, Taylor
inveighs against the pope: '[H]ee's the greatest Bawd the Earth doth beare: / For he that tolerates the Stewes erection, / Allowes them Priuiledges and protection, / Shares in the profit of their sordid sweat [.
I have a very wealthy relative - a staunch Republican - who runs big farms and has never turned back a nickle of his government subsidies - he accepts them quite gleefully, in fact, although he
inveighs against the welfare cheats and all of that.
Most of his comedies of life in Madrid center on a defect in a person's character: La verdad sospechosa ("The Suspicious Truth") is a study of inveterate lying; Las paredes oyen ("The Walls Have Ears") concerns slander; La prueba de las promesas ("The Proof of Promises") is an attack on ingratitude; and Mudarse por mejorarse ("To Change Oneself to Improve Oneself")
inveighs against the fickleness of lovers.
Most of us would agree with computer security expert Clifford Stoll, who
inveighs against viruses because "they poison the communal well.
As a patriot of his native land--that would be greater Port Royal and probably all or most of Kentucky--Berry brilliantly
inveighs against the evils of war and empire.
I particularly enjoyed his portrait of Sunni religious scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who
inveighs against the infidels even though his children have all studied at British and American universities.
The Eurocommerce boss
inveighs against the continuing economic need tests for opening a shop in France or Italy - tests typically conducted by sounding opinion among existing retailers in an area.
Instead, she simply
inveighs against the notion of male writers and their alleged one-dimensionality.
Hardnes she loves," writes Brooke of Virtue in "A Funerall Poem" for Sir Arthur Chichester: "soft spirits she disdaynes; / And holds that conquest noblest, got with paynes"; which gives the dead hero disconcerting affinities with the villain of his Ghost of Richard III who similarly
inveighs against "weak piping time[s] of peace.
As he
inveighs against 'stealth', perhaps he would like to reveal to readers the degree of 'stealth' involved in surveillance precautions protecting the Hastilow homestead?
I Am the Bitter Name (1972), an overtly political collection,
inveighs against the American military-industrial complex and the complacency of governments.
