H . L . Mencken disputed Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as " really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics.
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Reviewing " The Issue at Hand ", Algis Budrys described " Atheling " as " acidulous, assertive, categorical, conscientious and occasionally idiosyncratic ."
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The Forum is the subject of acidulous commentary in Kaminer's best-selling book, " I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional ."
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Parallel to the rivers of Fielding's life are the rivers of private and political history in Smallwood's narrative and in Fielding's acidulous counter-version.
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It does not strive to enlist sympathy nor does it fear to be frankly antipathetic . . . the tones not infrequently acidulous, and the surfaces sometimes hard and metallic.
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Stern, graceful Edita Majic ( playing " She " ) sang " Pirate Jenny " in commanding, husky tones, bursting into an acidulous scream at its climax.
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Aiming a screenful of bile at the industry in general, it releases its most acidulous contempt at a single personality, an " American idol . " Is it a roman a clef?
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This play, in which he played Jack Jarnegan, provided one of his favorite roles & mdash; that of a belligerent, drunken movie director given to acidulous and profane comments on Hollywood.
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In a typically acidulous mood, H . L . Mencken wrote in 1929 : " The danger of free speech does not lie in the menace of ideas, but in the menace of emotions.
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Hinckle is the acidulous journalistic anarchist who for 35 years, at Ramparts, Scanlan's Monthly, The Chronicle and the old San Francisco Examiner, has made a career of breaking rules and maiming reputations.
