acerb

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

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

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"One might suppose that all of this should be entirely clear to any careful reader of the Court's decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion.

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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