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Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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With her "mayn't be's" and her "is'es," Sylvie was unconsciously making a habit of the trick of Susan Nipper, but with a kindlier touch to her antitheses than pertained to those of that acerb damsel.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)