Writing about issues and controversies that have called forth some of the most vitriolic rhetoric in modern politics, Loughery manages to be unfailingly, almost astonishingly, sensible.

His vitriolic rhetoric once made Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg leave the Reichstag debate chamber in protest.

While the decision helped calm the skirmishes between Missouri and Kansas residents, it was to enrage abolitionists and ratchet up the vitriolic rhetoric that was to lead to the war.

Ma has generally avoided being accused of using the vitriolic and sometimes offensive rhetoric common in Taiwanese political debate.

And the speakers encouraged the push for a new tolerance to prevent the kind of vitriolic rhetoric that Mrs. Rabin and others blame for inspiring the Prime Minister's assassin.

Between 1920 and 1922, he actively campaigned using vitriolic rhetoric against one of the two M.P.s for Dundee, the Liberal politician Winston Churchill.

But discontinue the unsubstantiated and vitriolic rhetoric.

In the build up to the 1922 general election, even the local newspapers contained vitriolic rhetoric with regards to his political status in the city.

In this era of vitriolic rhetoric and impossible deficits, a consensus-seeking goofball with a background in microbrewing was somehow elected governor of Colorado.

Truman's Secretary of Defense George Catlett Marshall was the target of some of McCarthy's most vitriolic rhetoric.