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The painting was duly completed, received its due of scathing criticism, and became famous.
An English gentleman took the platform and delivered a scathing rebuke to America for slavery.
Mine will be a scathing indictment, and of course I shall bring in the political situation.
"She means to give you a scathing address on the moral failings of your youngest daughter."
They seem to be children, but with woman's passion, and woman's jealousy and scathing tongue.
He felt that his indictment of this new charitable departure had been scathing and logical.
Before Swift's scathing tongue and Swift's awful frown, even Lady Judith bowed her lofty crest.
The evidence produced before the Committee furnishes ample material for a scathing indictment of the system.
Without raising her voice, she threw into it an infinity of scathing contempt, bitterness, and despair.
He rebuked Lee with scathing severity, quickly rallied his troops, and checked the pursuing enemy.
Then he burst out again with scathing venom, the more concentrated because he kept his voice low.
It sounds like the beginning of some scathing rebuke to the recipient of the letter, doesn't it?
"If they did not they would have little chance afterwards," was our hero's scathing answer.
He would wander about the museum conducting imaginary discussions with her and making even scathing remarks.
Denny spoke with resolute firmness now and his voice rang as he uttered his scathing accusations.
It is impossible to describe the scathing tone with which my uncle uttered this last sentence.
There the entry ends, leaving a blank more eloquent than any scathing comment could have been.
If Ruskin had not been much interested in painters, would he have written scathing criticisms about them?
He ignored her scathing question: "I am satisfied," he said happily, "with both of them; they're bricks."
I'll compose a scathing letter that will give Maude something to think about from now to Thanksgiving.
He spoke with an effort after scathing contempt, but she detected a quiver of agitation in his voice.
Campbell remembering it in 1831 when he wrote this scathing review and critique on the Book of Mormon?
Then, after one scathing glance, she deliberately turned back to the window, and neglected to answer.
The mare landed in softening snow, for the scathing flames were melting the drifts on either side.
She seemed to be thinking out some scathing retort, but ended by only shrugging her shoulders slightly.
The very might of his emotions kept James Harrington still as he listened to these scathing words.
They are scathing exposures, but, as the very word implies, full of sorrow as well as severity.
Speech trembled on his lips that would not formulate the scathing rebuke surging within his mind.
It was as if he could never quite free himself from the scathing bitterness of old Andrea's reproaches.
Had the book an index of first lines, what a scathing criticism on the contents would it be!
Leslie was sometimes jealous, but he dared not show it openly, for fear of his wife's scathing contempt.
It may be doubted whether the scathing indictment he received from his peers made any impression on him.
The Blackwood articles were usually most scathing, and those of the Literary Gazette were not far behind.
The captain turned on him sharply, and for a moment scathing words hung trembling on his lips.
They printed scathing editorials about the whole affair, and intimated that Tabor would be forever damned politically.
In the margin of his own copy of the book he wrote criticisms as scathing as they are brief.
I saw, as in a nightmare, the scathing remarks that would find their way into the Suggestion Book.
The audience broke into a roar, and in a few moments he had the general under a scathing fire.
He could be sarcastic and even scathing when roused, but he never indulged in the refuge of cowardly souls.
The politicians at the back grew restless, and Alice was compelled to listen to their short, scathing criticisms.
The Judge administered a scathing rebuke, closing with a touch of humor, which was lost on the crowd.
No more scathing review of the situation, as it is seen at present, could possibly be given in a work of fiction.
First, because the character of his opponents fully justified him in directing his most scathing wit upon them.
Scathing sentences already took shape in his brain, but deeper investigation would be necessary before he could write anything.
Mortal anger and scathing contempt she could have understood and expected; but this was utterly beyond her.
His reply was simply scathing, and I give it in full as the papers of the day reproduced it.
He wanted to vent his anger in scathing defiance, but he was thinking of the girl in his charge.
The account of himself which he must render to her would be the most scathing ordeal of his life.
Deborah plunged after him and made scathing remarks about legal manners all the way down to the door.
George Grenville at once spoke to oppose this view, only to bring down upon him a scathing attack from Pitt.
Many men here are in a like self-crippled condition, and the doctor in charge, a good sort, makes scathing remarks.
Aunt Abby gave him what was meant to be a scathing glance, but which turned to a nod of admiration.
He was about to utter some scathing remark, when his attention was diverted by their arrival at Margaret's cottage.
The most scathing comment on such a system of administration is furnished in the story told by Colonel Henderson.
Even Sir Giles could not bear his scathing looks, and would have shielded himself from them if he could.
Her principles were as admirable, as was her criticism scathing when any breach of them came under her notice.
The Southern press was particularly scathing on the subject of aliens, especially Irishmen who endeavored to evade military service.
The condemnation must have been of the most scathing sort, for the wretched Sam Wing shivered as he listened.
My publisher showed it to me with some hesitation because it was so scathing, but it went right to the point.
Finding that nothing could be done with the juries, they were discharged with a scathing rebuke from the judge.
More than one scathing rebuke fell from her very capable tongue upon the well-calloused understanding of William, the senior Anderson.
There was bitterness, there were sneers, there were vague hopes and scathing injustices born of torment and racking dread.
The manuscript had been sent to eight different publishers and had been returned, in three instances with scathing comments.
It is with reference to Mohammed's personal bearing toward the female sex that he has received the most scathing criticisms.
I remember an incident of this kind which occurred last summer in my office while I was writing something scathing.
With groans scarcely uttered, Othello gives the only outlet possible to the blinding, scathing storm of passions within him.
In all his acquaintance with his wife, he had never known her to be so scathing in the matter of words.
When, in her young womanhood, she read some of his sharp, scathing criticisms, she wondered at his sweetness that afternoon.
She cast a scathing glance round the patio, and then settled her piercing eyes on Clarence with a bitter smile.
Complicating this discussion, a man who is now dead, and shall therefore be nameless, published a scathing attack on homosexuals.
All the flags have been taken down, and scathing comments on the extraordinary affair are anticipated from the local press.
The finish of it all was that I was made the subject of several of the most scathing lectures ever delivered.
Longing to be alone with her lover, hating the very shadow of any other man, she was scathing and unworthy.
And yet, as we have said, this vice, which entails such scathing disgrace and suffering, is encouraged in many seductive ways.
With a shudder, Celeste covered her face in her hands to shut out the scathing glance of those dark, gleaming eyes.
All this flashed through her brain as she sat there under Serena's scathing words, saying nothing, but hearing all.
I remember of an accident of this kind which occurred last summer in my office, while I was writing something scathing.
It was happiness concentrated one drop too keen, so that what should have been vivid wine was like a pure poison scathing him.
He exposed the abuses of pardons, pilgrimages, and indulgences in language so scathing that it set on fire the hearts of his readers.
In these two short sentences, we have the most scathing indictment against present social and industrial conditions, that could be made!
She marched over to the group and was about to deliver her opinion of them in scathing terms, when the whistle sounded.
The third period starts with a picture of the doomed man and a scathing bit of satire directed against the prison officials.
"Your idea of warmth, my dear man, was learned the upper reaches of the Thames after dark," was the scathing retort.
Her blood was like fire in her veins, a strange noise was in her ears and hot, scathing words leaped to her lips.
"I'd be a donkey if I didn't, and not worthy of being called a scout," the other boy remarked with scathing emphasis.
Much of what he wrote was the truth, but with it all, most of his criticisms were too scathing and hopelessly inaccurate.
Was he about to take her to task for all the scathing remarks she had made on the subject of his old love?
"Judges, a little more competent than you are, have said as much before," I observed, scathing him through and through with my eyes.
A few scathing remarks about my powers of imagination were all the thanks I received for thus saving the lives of the family.
Perhaps, too, he was sometimes the first to give way to angry passion, and to express in scathing words the bitterness he felt.
Scathing letters are all right, but they should be directed and stamped, then burned just before they are trusted to the mails.
The comedy is a scathing criticism of democracy; the subject is so controversial that it will be best to give some extracts without comment.
Napoleon, however, in his official paper, caused a scathing criticism on Corinne to appear; indeed, it was declared to be from his own pen.
At thirteen Bryant wrote a most scathing satire upon the policy of Thomas Jefferson, intended to make the President hang his head in shame.
He galloped to the assistance of General Strong, whose horse had fallen, and bore him under a scathing fire to a place of safety.
While as for funny stories, she was as dull as Clara herself; and it was impossible to say anything more scathing than that!
The favorable publicity for which he'd hoped, and which he'd certainly get unless Ted exposed him, would turn to scathing condemnation.
In the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson inserted some scathing remarks about the King's part in the slave traffic.
The reader may easily imagine that, under such divisions, the bold and ardent preacher would find employment for strong and scathing language.
Would it have been wonderful if she had spoken bitter scathing words to the unnatural parent who was driving her from his door?