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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Today the gay sensibility -- acerb, lusty, nostalgic, poignant -- dominates high drama and low comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish to-day to make known another of these voices, more acerb, more virile, more vengeful, than the stoical bitterness of Husson and the despairing tenderness of Delemer.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain