harangue
arenga
definition
verb
the kind of guy who harangued total strangers about PCB levels in whitefish
lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner.
noun
When he finished his lengthy harangue , everyone left, and Lohia wandered over to the nearest paanwallah to ask if Hanif was out yet.
a lengthy and aggressive speech.
translation of 'harangue'
verb
arengar,
hacer una arenga
noun
arenga,
hecho de una arenga
example
they were subjected to a ten-minute 'harangue' by two border guards
Sun boss Scott McNealy gave the DoJ his lengthiest 'harangue' at the company's AGM for stockholders yesterday.
When he finished his lengthy 'harangue' , everyone left, and Lohia wandered over to the nearest paanwallah to ask if Hanif was out yet.
As a former SFU undergrad, I enjoyed 'haranguing' you privileged children/right wing ideologues (you all seem so young, you BC Young Liberallies).
Which is why my 'harangues' in defense of the President's Bioethics Council have bordered on outright rants.
Yes, he's a well-compensated good soldier, but that hardly seems to hinder half of this league's 'haranguers' , so give the man his props.
I offer these comments only in the interest of historical perspective. I have no interest in starting or participating in 'harangues' of any kind.
They forbade ‘political speeches, 'harangues' , or canvassing among the troops.’
Instead it's always the ‘political’ ones that get the camera, the 'haranguers' and culture-warriors with the blarney touch, able to motivate viewers' emotions with their words.
Even in his late seventies, Louis is still 'haranguing' his son about his attitude towards Israel, and Allen is responding with the same mixture of would-be facts and baffled fury.
Comedy is a good way of nipping that tendency in the bud and it is a tendency I do have when I'm 'haranguing' my friends.
Though they were surrounded by ‘walls’ of bodyguards, they could not be shielded from 'harangues' and insults hurled at them.
Ali, however, was on good terms, both with the gatekeepers and the guards, both of whom hailed and 'harangued' him in a friendly manner as he stopped briefly to speak with them.
Sayle's prose is the same mixture as before - darkly comic 'harangues' interspersed with infomercials about politics, fashion, and the world of celebrity.
In the summer of 1950 when Nathan turns away from Ira, part of that retreat was in reaction to Ira's 'harangues' about the violence of American reaction in Korea and the real possibilities of atomic warfare.
The majority of countries in the world do not conduct foreign relations through 'harangues' and impulsive actions intended to sate the irrational instincts of a minority audience.
We avoid political 'harangues' - or for that matter political anything - here at Eclectic Mind, but I do try not to completely stick my head in the sand.
‘These are the 'haranguers' , the reminders, the people who will constantly do this stuff,’ he said.
These banquets, where a spartan meal set the stage for political 'harangues' masquerading as toasts, concentrated the diffuse energies hostile to Louis-Philippe's politics.
He's been 'haranguing' me about this with increasing frequency over the last month or so, pressuring me to quit using my insurance to see him and become a regular paying client instead.
As grating as his shrill 'harangues' may seem to those who are their targets, were he not here to remind us what happened on one great day for a nuclear disaster, the rest of us might not remember.
Instead of 'haranguing' the audience with the message that alcohol is evil, director Betty Thomas shows Gwen having such a good time during the pre-sobriety sequences that you begin to wonder whether it is rehab that was evil all along.
Judy said: ‘We are all very proud of our group and don't really like 'haranguing' people for money all the time.
It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox 'haranguers' to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.
They applauded, I suspect, for much the same reason so many members of the black Christian middle-class applaud the 'harangues' of Black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan.
Yes, they do bother me because they're constantly 'haranguing' me.
For the past decade they have travelled the world, 'haranguing' its leaders about the effects of globalisation, campaigning for ‘fair trade’ and chanting about the dangers of climate change.
Returning to his old political ways, the general has again taken to delivering evangelical 'harangues' and has challenged the media opposed to his campaign.
Picasso responds that he is not sure what such a picture would look like, at which point his 'haranguer' takes a photo of his wife from his wallet and says, ‘‘There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is’.’
In the claustrophobic gloom of Fez, a small basement club popular with students in downtown New York, Joan Rivers is standing on stage 'haranguing' her audience.
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