acerbity
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A glorious actor in all mediums, she takes full advantage of Silda’s savory acerbity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
It brings together judgment and gentleness, reason and passion, acerbity and receptivity.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2018
With the help of her idealistic new nanny, Marlo begins a cathartic journey of self-discovery that, in true Cody fashion, is equal parts tenderness and acerbity.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2018
And yet another worried about the prospect of a boycott of their companies’ products depending on the acerbity of their words.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2017
Nor can we pause to deal with Tertullian, who, with more impetuosity and no less acerbity, championed the same orthodoxy, shrinking not from the "credo quia absurdum est," and who ended by turning heretic.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
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