They say they are weary of seeing personal invective replace rational political discussion, and have decided to pass up running for the Senate next year.

President Bush reacted with a torrent of personal invective.

He accused the Bradley forces of campaigning by "personal invective."

"It's outrageous what some of the Democrats are doing in demeaning him with personal invective," Koch said.

I'm sure you're a very nice fellow, and I didn't mean any of what I said as personal invective.

Hogarth was not above using his graphic talents for personal invective.

Indeed, issues have been buried in a blizzard of personal invective.

But the personal invective is getting a teensy bit wearying.

He's already reined in the personal invective and the threats that we heard last month, and the atmosphere has improved.

The campaign was marred by exceptional political acrimony and personal invective.