0 present participle of excoriate --
1 to write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad: --
Pervasive themes are familiar - nationalism, empire, and class - and the "land without music" trope proves irresistible to critics excoriating audiences for their failures of taste and appropriate enthusiasm.
Yet he never fails to register the passion that powers this sometimes frenzied, excoriating music.
