acerb

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some years ago, during a brief lull in Frost's career, acerb Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge predicted that Frost would sink without a trace.

From Time Magazine Archive

The film's tone is acerb, but its climax is as predictably uplifting as Rocky's and as surefire effective as Damn Yankees'.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will's ideological questions on This Week with David Brinkley, and Brinkley, who once seemed acerb, comes out courtly by contrast.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish to-day to make known another of these voices, more acerb, more virile, more vengeful, than the stoical bitterness of Husson and the despairing tenderness of Delemer.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain