1.   A version of premillennialist pessimism is detectable in the scathing moral indictments of a polemical artist like Sue Coe.

2.   In a memoir published last week, McNamara delivers a scathing indictment of himself and his associates.

3.   In an interview last week, Fincham issued a scathing indictment of the way society tries, and fails, to protect children.

4.   Only the jury knows if it all amounts to a scathing indictment of the tobacco industry or just so much hot air.

5.   The other Louds fared no better in her scathing indictment.

6.   Which brings us back to Judge Kozinski, who kindled much of the current debate with his scathing indictment of the modern capital-punishment charade.

7.   The speech amounted to a scathing indictment of decades of alleged government duplicity in past peace overtures.

8.   The report, issued Monday, was a scathing indictment of cronyism and financial irregularities in some offices at the top of the EU executive.

9.   The Learmont Report was a scathing indictment of the way the Prisons Service had been managed since its semi-privatization under Lewis two years ago.