Described as a strange person full of acerbity against everything and every one , Pigasov frequently visits Dar ya Mikhailovna prior to Rudin s appearance and amuses her with his bitter remarks, mostly aimed at women.
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But her transitions between acerbity and vulnerability, expressed with a Katharine Hepburn tremolo, can scrape, and there are times when you're waiting for a punch line in what is meant to be an earnestly sentimental moment.
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His " Wien's Poetische Schwingen und Federn " ( Vienna, 1847 ) manifested critical acumen, but also a tinge of political acerbity in its attack on the censor system of the Austrian chancellor Prince Metternich.
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As Ms . Thomases testified on Tuesday, her husband, Bill Bettridge, a construction engineer with flowing gray hair, sat behind her, doing pen-and-ink sketches of individual panel members with Daumier-like acerbity.
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More generally in " White Boy Shuffle, " which is saturated with the acerbity of the poetry, Beatty holds a lens to the most recognizable images of what has become a sociological cliche : the young black male.
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In that case, said Spaak, " the government would not only have on its hands the King's abdication or return, it would also have to appease the anger, acerbity and rancor of Flanders or Wallonia ."
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And so Stevens had intended to pay to broadcast " New Low " only a handful of times, knowing that news programs, delighting in its acerbity, would work up stories about Bush and veterans and then broadcast the commercial free.
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There was nothing malicious about it; its acerbity was sit-up-and-take-notice-worthy but very fitting, and it appealed to my sense of humour .-- [ your turn ] 02 : 33, 5 November 2011 ( UTC)
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Rafferty presents the House hearing with the same hands-off, let-' em-hang-themselves acerbity that he used like a devious fly-on-the-wall in " Feed, " his assault on the'92 New Hampshire primary.
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Neither candidate has the technical articulateness of a Dukakis, the stylishly-quirky odd-ballish humor of a Weld, the jagged intellectual firepower of a Silber, the cool acerbity of a Kerry, nor the bring-down-the-house brass section of a Kennedy.
