acerbity

Example Sentences

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By now Dimon is nearly iconic in his acerbity and general spikiness.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017

It sounds treacly, but Linklater handles the sentiment with a light touch of acerbity and sets it off against another dramatic element, the troubled undercurrents that arise inevitably from the student-athlete’s circumstances.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 5, 2016

As Claire — a role played with immortal acerbity by Elaine Stritch, opposite Ms. Harris — Ms. Duncan becomes the cute, love-starved little sister who never quite grew up.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014

That's not inappropriate, and once Christopher Salazar arrives as hero John Worthing, the contrast between his benign gravitas and Hunter's febrile acerbity is drolly amusing, a Victorian-era Mutt and Jeff.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014

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 Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini