acerb
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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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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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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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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
