| Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence. |
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| Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity. |
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| When I asked if he had never wanted to go back to South Africa, he responded with some asperity. |
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| He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it. |
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| Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |
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| He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence. |
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| Final is lightly marked by a certain asperity conferred by the still young tannins of red wine. |
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| There was a muttered exclamation indicative of exasperation and the rejoinder with some asperity. |
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| Further targets for Amis's asperity included his vegetarianism and his teetotalism. |
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| With a high contact area, there is a sealed surface with asperity indentations. |
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| If the music has an added asperity, Soviet experience was a hard teacher. |
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| The rolling, which takes place in the same process, ensures the required internal diameter tolerances and asperity values. |
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| Certainly, Jeremy had retorted with asperity, I dared to use it in the ground instead of in some pudding! |
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| I was trying to keep my asperity to a minimum, for his sake. |
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| His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment. |
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| In the Georgian conflict, as in the more subtle variants of energy diplomacy, Russians have shown a harshly utilitarian asperity in connecting means and ends. |
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| It conveys pathos, asperity or affectionate irony, rather as if one were in the presence of a relative from whom little is hid and to whom little need to be explained. |
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| He looked at the president when the president spoke, and his expression revealed no asperity or disdain. |
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| At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity. |
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| Shear stress can be occasionally intensified if a given rock volume is exposed to local geometric effects such as bending around an asperity on a fault plane. |
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| He notes with asperity that it was not her place to press Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf to take off his uniform — much less to tell Rummy himself that the pinstripes on his old pants had faded away. |
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| Almost 40 years later, Dutchmen Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten rescued i Rossoneri from another spell of asperity and transformed them into one of the most formidable club sides of all time. |
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| To exacerbate the disparity, translators often have a tendency to smooth out every asperity, thereby 'fixing' words the author used improperly for a specific reason. |
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| I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. |
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| Ms. Neuwirth brings an amusing touch of imperious asperity to her role as Malibran, but her naturally dry demeanor seems a strange fit for the character, who was famous for her tempestuousness. |
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| This is a famous exchange, but the reasons for Johnson's asperity, other than that he was fond of exercising it, got lost in the long historical process that forged a new British identity. |
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| Uruguay's asperity has been sharpened by continuing protests in Argentina against two big paper projects, which critics claim will pollute rivers. Uruguay may be bluffing. |
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| Symbol of passing time which devours everything, also symbol of stability and long-lasting experiences, Saturn gives the impression of a climate of asperity and heaviness. |
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| As any trekker or bushwalker knows, it is very easy to underestimate the asperity of the Alpine climate, which can turn nasty in very short order indeed. |
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