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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

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.

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The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.

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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