acerbity

Example Sentences

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By now Dimon is nearly iconic in his acerbity and general spikiness.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017

Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017

The play is a novice effort by a fledgling dramatist, but it isn’t helped by Mr. Staller’s additions to the text, which have none of Shaw’s comic acerbity.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2016

That's not inappropriate, and once Christopher Salazar arrives as hero John Worthing, the contrast between his benign gravitas and Hunter's febrile acerbity is drolly amusing, a Victorian-era Mutt and Jeff.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014

Therefore he might have described his modest surroundings with less acerbity than the irritable De Goncourts.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James