They insisted, those educated women and men, that gifted and talented programs excoriated the self-confidence of children who couldn't or didn't get into those programs.
More specifically, the chapters excoriated the church for supplanting in an unnecessarily destructive way the great culture that preceded it and for the outrage of practicing religious intolerance and warfare.
He also rendered several judgments which excoriated the capitalist system of his age, lamenting the punishment of petty criminals while corrupt plutocrats operated above the law.
