Term of the day: dithyramb (n.) -- (1) a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus; (2) a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing.
From Concord's brief opposing Mueller's attempt to hide his evidence from the defense:
Having made this special request based on a secret submission to the Court and a hysterical dithyramb about the future of American elections, one would think that the Special Counsel would cite to case holdings that support this remarkable request.
I don't know who writes these legal briefs for the Concord defense team, but I'd like to nominate him/her for a Nobel Prize in literature. LOL.
Mueller's team can't get anything right. Apparently they're engaged in ongoing dithyrambs that are nothing more than pettifoggery.
It’s fake law.
All made up just like the Russian collusion theory.
When Mueller can’t find authorities to support it, it doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Damn straight!
LOL, dithyramb. I had to look that one up too.
Wht’s a pettifogger any way.......
Blam, slap sock!
pettifogger (plural pettifoggers)
Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.
” Apparently they’re engaged in ongoing dithyrambs that are nothing more than pettifoggery. “
And blatant faggotry.
There is an unwritten rule of all good writing and particularly legal writing: never use words, such as dithyramb, that will undoubtedly compel your target audience (the judge) to drop what he/she is reading in order to get a dictionary. In other words, don’t use obscure words when well known vocabulary will do. My English composition professor used the following sentence to illustrate: “He churlishly defenestrated the curmudgeon”. Instead, you could say, “irritated, he threw the old geezer out the window”.
dithyramb .... love it.
A nice bit of snark in a legal brief is always helpful to keep the reader awake.