acerbic

Example Sentences

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Aoki commissions the acerbic Jack to find and return his painting discreetly: “Nose around. Be a bit of a pest. There’s no one better than you to do that.”

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Outwardly unassuming and privately acerbic, Martin Gilmour teaches at a second-rate English university that, in his words, “tended to attract the stupid rich.”

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This turn in the film, written and directed by Simón Mesa Soto, reveals a slightly sentimental streak beneath its acerbic surface.

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Yet Münter has long been overshadowed by contemporaries like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who veered into acerbic expressionism, and Wassily Kandinsky, who migrated toward pure abstraction.

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The Soviet Union was a land of shortages, but there was no shortage of acerbic sayings.

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