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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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Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will's ideological questions on This Week with David Brinkley, and Brinkley, who once seemed acerb, comes out courtly by contrast.
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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.
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Today the gay sensibility -- acerb, lusty, nostalgic, poignant -- dominates high drama and low comedy.
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She denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “Why not?”
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
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