Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano (Pan), a passionate denunciation of the Neapolitan mafia, created such a stir that its author, five years on, still has armed guards at public expense.

Never before or since was there a more passionate denunciation of the hypocrisy of the nation as a whole - democratic and fraternal and equalitarian and all the other words.

Where are the passionate denunciations?

One reason may well have been Mr. Miller's passionate denunciation of his own Democratic Party in a recent book as well as his keynote speech at the Republican convention.

Advisers were also inundated with what one facetiously called "dinner party evidence" - passionate denunciations of the first lady by professional women at social events in Manhattan.

After her death he published a long exposure of her treatment in imprisonment, interspersed with passionate denunciations of her enemies, especially John Knox and Elizabeth I of England.

Memory of her wild and passionate denunciation of him and his kind must have seared even his calloused soul.

It was praised by Edward Abbey in The New York Times for its "delicate marvels, compassionate observations and - strangest and lovliest of all - passionate denunciations."

- Edwards gave a passionate denunciation of the culture of losing that he said permeated the organization and spoke of the need to exorcise the ghosts of Jets failures past.

On the telephone, the woman was articulate and loquacious, moving from humorous self-deprecation to passionate denunciation of the treatment of women in Islamic countries.