asperity

Example Sentences

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More notable is the specificity of his satire—he has a degree in agronomy—and the seriousness of his engagement with the economic asperities of provincial France in the era of the gilets jaunes.

From The New Yorker

I wanted to tell her something about her beauty and asperity, about watching her catch the lightning in her hands onstage, but she would have yelled at me and told me to stop being sentimental.

From New York Times

When he told her he didn’t know, she replied, with asperity, “Yeah, I thought so.”

From The New Yorker

He sometimes sounds like a demagogue, and he denounces critics with an asperity that has drawn inevitable comparisons to Trump.

From The Guardian

Like Parker, she too struggled with alcoholism, and in the course of her sometimes brutal self-reflection learned to temper her asperity with a good dose of humanity.

From New York Times