causticity

A perfect match for the general causticity of the screenplay by Brooks, MacLaine and Winger were far from typical Hollywood stars.

Oh, no," he said, with a smack of his old causticity, "I do not see why I should be angry with you, Kate.

It should be mixed with six or eight times its weight of loam or ashes, charred peat, charcoal-dust or some earthy matter, before it is applied to the soil, as from its causticity it is otherwise not unlikely to kill or injure the plants to which it is administered.

Mr. Yankovic seemed somewhat chagrined by this incident one month later and said any causticity in his blog post came from fear that his work on “Perform This Way” would be wasted.

As among these epigrammatists we never had a Martial, so among these character-writers we could hardly expect a La Bruy�re for his refined causticity; but the most skilful, as Sir Thomas Overbury and Bishop Earle, are so 677 witty as to seem grotesque, but it is human nature disguised in the fashions of the day.2 This infection of style must have come from a higher source than a mere fashionable affectation of the day, for it endured through half a century.