assailment

In the midst of Reagan's dress rehearsal for the current right-wing rollback of civil rights, evisceration of the public sector, attack on women, assault on unions, and war on Afro-America, Chrisman perceptively noted the significance of his assailment of the nonprofit sector.

Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet, warns against this kind of overt romanticization or assailment of mythology that sacrifices reality.

But it has also witnessed the perversion of common sense and the assailment of values and reason by ideology.

Those definitely are not with the state institution under the private adventurist's assailment, which if this was any sensible and responsible leadership would have defended to the hilt.

Particularly convincing is Interior: Striped Foyer, a madcap picture of a vestibule with a side table and shifting wall planes covered in wallpaper so finely striped as to produce an assailment comparable to the queasy afterimages of Op art.