acerbity
Example Sentences
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Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017
The play is a novice effort by a fledgling dramatist, but it isn’t helped by Mr. Staller’s additions to the text, which have none of Shaw’s comic acerbity.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2016
It makes me concerned the younger generation may be suffering alarmingly low levels of acerbity.
From Slate • Nov. 24, 2015
That's not inappropriate, and once Christopher Salazar arrives as hero John Worthing, the contrast between his benign gravitas and Hunter's febrile acerbity is drolly amusing, a Victorian-era Mutt and Jeff.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014
The Prince did it so daintily, with such light, graceful touch, such shining absence of acerbity, such brimming over with contagious good humour, that the cloud vanished from the brow of Jove.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various
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Oliver Twist
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The House of the Seven Gables
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