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Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor.
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Out of one recent seminar, for example, came General Lyman Lemnitzer's acerb remarks on General Maxwell Taylor's proposal to merge the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Some years ago, during a brief lull in Frost's career, acerb Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge predicted that Frost would sink without a trace.
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The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
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With her "mayn't be's" and her "is'es," Sylvie was unconsciously making a habit of the trick of Susan Nipper, but with a kindlier touch to her antitheses than pertained to those of that acerb damsel.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
