acerbity

Example Sentences

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Pete, played with microscopic gradations of acerbity and unease by the wonderful Toby Jones, has spent years staying out of the world’s way, stitching himself a small cloak of invisibility.

From New York Times

Yet she somehow manages to balance her acerbity with an essential sweetness — a refreshing quality in this era of internet snark.

From Los Angeles Times

Lady Bird Johnson told me once, in a rare moment of acerbity, that when forced to eat there she always ordered eggs: “There isn’t too much they can do to eggs.”

From The New Yorker

It brings together judgment and gentleness, reason and passion, acerbity and receptivity.

From The Guardian

“Something about the desert,” he adds, “inclines all living things to harshness and acerbity.”

From The Guardian