| While this radical critique lost some acerbity after 1980, it left an impression, especially on the liberal intelligentsia. |
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| Discharged from Vanity Fair in 1920 for the acerbity of her drama reviews, she became a freelance writer. |
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| These writings revealed a first-rate sensibility, a critic ready to stick his neck out and make the necessary judgments, sometimes with acerbity, often with a humorous irony. |
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| One of the best performances, however, comes from Lauren Ward, who endows the journalist's photographer chum with a watchful acerbity that reminded me of Hollywood's Eve Arden. |
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| The widespread disillusionment in the state, increased by Mr Gramm's acerbity, casts a shadow on the agreement's future. Mr Massieu's future looks even bleaker. |
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| The story might have been set in Glasgow or Liverpool, other Victorian centres of industrialisation, but Patterson captures the deadpan rhythms and acerbity of Belfast dialogue. |
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| The narrative voice blends knowing British acerbity and an uneducable American overfamiliarity in the telling of this story, and the results are highly amusing. |
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| People observed the diversity of schools and the acerbity of their disputes, and decided that all alike were pretending to knowledge which was in fact unattainable. |
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