acerbity
Example Sentences
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It brings together judgment and gentleness, reason and passion, acerbity and receptivity.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2018
Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2017
The play is a novice effort by a fledgling dramatist, but it isn’t helped by Mr. Staller’s additions to the text, which have none of Shaw’s comic acerbity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2016
It makes me concerned the younger generation may be suffering alarmingly low levels of acerbity.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2015
Mrs. Lovenant-Smith began correctly; her first trace of acerbity showed only when Louie, having listened to her arraignment with downcast eyes, lifted them for a moment to make a modest and quite immaterial correction.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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