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Some years ago, during a brief lull in Frost's career, acerb Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge predicted that Frost would sink without a trace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.
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The film's tone is acerb, but its climax is as predictably uplifting as Rocky's and as surefire effective as Damn Yankees'.
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Bringing back David Brinkley, as wry of manner as ever but now less acerb, has improved the show but not its share of the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
With her "mayn't be's" and her "is'es," Sylvie was unconsciously making a habit of the trick of Susan Nipper, but with a kindlier touch to her antitheses than pertained to those of that acerb damsel.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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