It was a bitter attack on those who had sneered at his father, an astonishingly poised performance for a twenty-six-year-old, and an early demonstration of Bron's gift for vituperation.
-- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Bron and His 'Affec. Papa'", The Atlantic, May 2001
Everybody was very nice except the Liberal women -- who have a repertoire of vituperation that I cannot believe to be equalled anywhere.
-- Bonnie Kime Scott (Editor), Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Ratifying Wylie's vituperations against the homemaker, feminists have scorned the domestic role and exhorted other women to join them in forsaking it as unworthy of their talents.
-- F. Carolyn Graglia, Domestic Tranquility
