The play was presented in an excoriating, operatically extroverted style by Werner Schroeter, the director and stage designer.

But as frequently as "The Farewell" touches on politics, it is essentially an excoriating (and sometimes grimly amusing) domestic drama of a latter-day king and his concubines.

You can expect such terms to be excoriated every year in this space.

But those forces were not the special interests the Republicans excoriated.

He'll help and support someone he might have excoriated a week before."

Another time, he attended and gave a speech excoriating the commission.

Not only militias, but all critics of big government are excoriated in the book.

One justice, who cast the decisive vote, was excoriated for his role.

Needless to say, many women, including those who reviewed the book, excoriated her.

Why is it only the women who are excoriated?

I mean, who tries to manipulate, then excoriate a police officer?

He excoriated military leaders for their complicity with the old regime.

With the way she had excoriated herself, I should have looked under her nails."

Cornell and the institute received more than 10,000 form letters excoriating the research.

The corpse of the young lady was much bruised and excoriated.

He said he had no desire to be excoriated by the public.

To excoriate one's family was ultimately the same thing as to idealize.

Brown, as all knew, had for some time been excoriating the Vice President at every chance.

"It is not a happy assignment - will be excoriated," he wrote.

In a recent interview, he excoriated the system's prodigious bureaucracy.

He excoriated some of the government's experts in the 84 days of trial.

The film could excoriate these manifestations but instead finds them amusing.

They excoriate the administration plan as a bureaucratic, "one size fits all" solution.

It's not as much fun excoriating the Washington establishment when you're back in its bosom.

"In fact, I have a message from my uncle excoriating me for being seen in public with you."

His face must have felt like this, all fire and agony, every nerve excoriated beyond bearing.

Having excoriated religion from the social body, there could only be pain in returning to the errors of the past.