But by the middle of the afternoon the strain of the last few weeks began to show when Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum opened a lengthy diatribe.

Hoping it wouldn't start another lengthy diatribe, Monor asked, "Anything else about that Forehead wreck?"

That might just have meant she was resting her arms-why hold me during a potentially lengthy diatribe, when she might need all her strength later?

But in any case, she had had no chance to say anything, because he didn't mention the matter at all, being quite taken up with a lengthy diatribe concerning a difficult diagnosis he had made that morning.

The event generated a storm of protest from Fundamentalist Christian groups in the country, with the American Family Association ("AFA") posting lengthy anti-Hindu diatribes on their website.

But nowhere in his lengthy diatribe does he account for the fact that our book was also one of five finalists for the 1990 National Book Award.

BenjaminP As a teenager I was entranced with your lengthy diatribes on your television shows.

Wolfe's response was equally over the top, a lengthy diatribe called "My Three Stooges," which he included in his 2000 collection, "Hooking Up."

But according to their lengthy diatribes - and now, I find out, backed up by my own reporting - some would still consider them woefully underpaid.

And here follows a lengthy diatribe on the ills of the Euro and why it was a bad idea.