harangues

Various members of the society indulge in short harangues, recounting personal exploits in the performance of magic and exorcism, to which the auditors respond in terms of gratification and exclamations of approval.

The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872

Various members of the society indulge in short harangues, recounting personal exploits in the performance of magic and exorcism, to which the auditors respond in terms of gratification and exclamations of approval.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Why do you think so many people write these "harangues" anyway, professor?

Pharyngula 2009

Why do you think so many people write these "harangues" anyway, professor?

Pharyngula 2009

2 For an account of how the former State Department Yugoslavia desk officer George Kenney was subjected to "harangues" for his early "defect [ion] from pack journalism," see Peter Brock,

MRZine.org 2010

Obama's attempt to lay out the ideological foundations of his re-election campaign marked a shift from recent speeches that have concentrated on small-scale executive actions or campaign-style harangues against Republicans to stop stalling his $447bn jobs plan.

Obama speech declares 'make-or-break moment for the middle class' 2011

On the other side, most whites regarded Indian oratory as a kind of obstructionist filibustering, boring harangues, though some admired them and saw them as akin to classical Roman oratory.8

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

In its fire-breathing harangues and nostril-flaring proclamations, its fans discover a confirmation of their pettiest, and most self-pitying, impulses.

Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

One can already hear the befuddled stammering of Rush, Ann and Sean as they back peddle on their anti-gay harangues and twist and distort logic trying to explain why they support Liz the candidate but not Liz the person to live as she chooses.

Liz Cheney open to running for office 2009

As it happens, it was Joseph Wilson, and not Barack Obama who spoke the truth in that exchange, and I leave it to others to sort out the etiquette of presidential harangues to joint sessions of Congress.

Immigration 2010