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A shorter, dumber and shriller political discourse, it seems, has become another hazard of modern life.

'Blood libel' and the rising tide of the catch phrase Melissa Bell 2011

Here's the interesting part: As the Internet blogging community (mostly libertarian/conservative), alternative cable news outlets (Fox News), and AM talk radio (again, mostly conservative) continue to hit the liberal media right where it hurts -- namely, in the wallet -- the mainstream liberal media's practically unanimous response is to become even shriller and more liberal.

The Productivity Story, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But Kremlin watchers say that a shriller tone in recent days could spell rockier relations for as long as he faces political uncertainty.

Kremlin Resorts to Anti-Americanism Alan Cullison 2012

Though he looses a shock-and-awe flurry of evidentiary darts (natural selection, fossil records, molecular biology, and much more), he also mutes some of the shriller tendencies that have unhinged — or at least made hectoring and unlovely — his previous works.

Cover to Cover 2009

Though he looses a shock-and-awe flurry of evidentiary darts (natural selection, fossil records, molecular biology, and much more), he also mutes some of the shriller tendencies that have unhinged — or at least made hectoring and unlovely — his previous works.

Cover to Cover 2009

The one-minute floor speeches and longer floor debates are becoming shriller and more personal, and the basest of all political instincts now have a viral host to go global.

Turn off the cameras in Congress 2009

Maybe he needs to get out there and be more on the hustings with a shriller voice than the one he's demonstrated.

Is Obama Doing Enough To Win Over The Public? 2010

The protesters' calls for greater income redistribution and their denunciations of capitalism have become shriller, and the protests are becoming more violent and destructive.

Fairness and the 'Occupy' Movement Arthur C. Brooks 2011

Maybe he needs to get out there and be more on the hustings with a shriller voice than the one he's demonstrated.

Is Obama Doing Enough To Win Over The Public? 2010

He's full of hot air and bad ideas and, though his desperate supporters become louder and shriller in trying to praise his dubious performance, they are being drowned out in a drumbeat of negative appraisals by sober and conscientious citizens.

McGinn Plans Second Housing Meeting; Still No Word on Fate of Housing Office « PubliCola 2010