acerb

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The film's tone is acerb, but its climax is as predictably uplifting as Rocky's and as surefire effective as Damn Yankees'.

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Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism.

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Bringing back David Brinkley, as wry of manner as ever but now less acerb, has improved the show but not its share of the audience.

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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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She denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “Why not?”

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair