acerb

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Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.

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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.

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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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"One might suppose that all of this should be entirely clear to any careful reader of the Court's decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion.

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Miss Black was older than her brother, and had already acquired that acerb precision which lies in wait with such frequent success for middle-aged spinsters and bachelors.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary