It’s only so much rhetoric.

Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers. Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.

And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

[…] it received at once the gratifying tribute of large sandwichy grins and chuckles all round the table.