He is a very ingenious and cunning writer and it's fun to see him skewer the targets he aims for with acerbic wit and intelligence. |
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But, literally and metaphorically, Loudon's still the daddy, and his 21st album finds him on typically acerbic and wittily literate form. |
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The wicked mix of an acerbic tongue and a winning smile means holding grudges is nigh impossible. |
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Relocated temporarily to Los Angeles, the acerbic videomaker says that this is his final video. |
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Outrageously funny, acerbic but never cruel, unpatronising and frankly informative CP is a truly great presenter. |
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In this novel, Beverly Lamark is a successful mystery writer with a quick temper and acerbic wit. |
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He takes his shots at me, but he has an acerbic, curmudgeonly style that gives me a laugh and he happily owns up to his prejudices. |
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To this end, helpful responses are mildly sardonic, while acerbic comments are scathing, derisive insults. |
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Back in January, when it began to snow, I made some acerbic comment that all the 4x4 drivers will be coming into their own. |
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The actor was as famous for his fast living, hard drinking, and acerbic wit as for his performances. |
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Indeed, the question of his resignation was obliquely hinted at during occasionally acerbic Commons exchanges. |
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They are also full of gossipy anecdotes recounted in his saucy and acerbic style. |
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He is good company, a man of great intelligence and broad knowledge, good humour and acerbic wit. |
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She was reportedly a tough character, bitterly acerbic and tragically alcoholic. |
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You should have a sassy woman who knows her food but also has acerbic comments to make about corporate America and the food industry. |
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The old man never once turned around to look at the speaker, but his reply was undeniably acerbic in nature. |
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Full of my usual razor sharp wit and acerbic commentary coupled with pithy, erudite and provoking insights into the unfolding world about me. |
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Ed is known for his acerbic wit and often outlandish and controversial commentary. |
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Known for his acerbic wit, sharp tongue, and occasional profanity, he stood out among the colorless bureaucrats who ruled Poland. |
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Thinly veiled insults and acerbic comments are the tools of his or her trade. |
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Good bloggers tend to be acerbic, prolific, polemical, and good in short spurts. |
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Written with erudition and firm, if sometimes quirky, opinion, the book is interlarded with humor and acerbic comment. |
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He was renowned for his acerbic, if occasionally crudely sexist, pieces for lad magazines. |
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But any show that features Brooker's acerbic round-up of the week's news and Carr's scurrilous one-liners will also have a hard edge. |
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With a long career behind him, he casts an amused, acerbic, sometimes cynical eye on all his subjects. |
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On page after page, acerbic observations vie for attention with apodictic verdicts. |
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The author's uncompromising critical insights and acerbic style, both humorous and original, make the reading of this work a feast for both the mind and soul. |
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Marrying thought provoking lyrics with great melodies and his trademark acoustic guitar playing, his music is underlined with an acerbic and sometimes sarcastic wit. |
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As to the marriage itself, Rushdie again presents the reader with an acerbic gloss on the fairytale ideal of the white wedding and the beautiful bride. |
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The taste of the product is sweet, slightly acerbic, tart, aromatic, and slightly spicy. |
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Until then, Abdul had offered the soft-hearted incoherent commentary, balancing Cowell's acerbic, reality-based remarks. |
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A satirical comedy which has something Voltairean about it in its double acerbic and positive aspect. |
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Although the acerbic left-winger is a political veteran, this will be his first Democratic primary. |
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So their language is more alive, more acerbic, more understandable than the language journalists use in mainstream newspapers. |
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Four years passed since he realised his last film, Dr Strangelove, a cynical and acerbic comedy about race for weapons. |
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Incidentally, allow me to say, if I sounded a little bit acerbic, I do not denigrate the work of this committee or any member of Parliament. |
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But more than just a simple illustration, Rops' drawing is also a bitter and acerbic criticism of society. |
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An acerbic analysis of the human soul by a theatre company often described as experimental, exuberant, philosophical and poetic. |
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On his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday, the acerbic host had some harsh words for our butt-crazy culture. |
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If Brady were as uptight and acerbic as Belichick often seems, the Patriot train would have long ago run off the rails. |
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But Tom Boswell makes it all look easy, gliding between the seasons with appreciation and acerbic wit. |
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A hazy choral interlude follows, followed by more nasty beats and acerbic lyrics. |
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The Bling Ring is visceral, elegantly shot, and acerbic, as it probes the dark side of celebrity obsession. |
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And not the least haughty or intimidating or acerbic, but helpful, constructive, and conscientious. |
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The acerbic 85-year-old Michigan Democrat had long been contemptuous of Tea Partiers. |
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Perhaps even as acerbic a critic as Kennan might have been pleased by the result. |
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Much of it tastes like acerbic carbonated water with a dose of sugar to take the edge off. |
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Samantha is a smart, acerbic narrator, and her observations about high-school warfare ring true. |
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His style is acerbic, his humour disquiets, his directness can shock. |
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He has a lazy, matey sort of north London accent, longingly smokes each cigarette, as if it is his last, and has an acerbic wit, usually directed against himself. |
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The cast deals admirably with a difficult script which is peppered with acerbic one-liners and wonderfully witty wisecracks, characteristic of Marber's earlier comedy. |
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Now in his 60s, Clough is very much alive and kicking, as alert and acerbic as ever, and still with a myriad of views to express on any subject you care to mention. |
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This is like Shostakovich without his satiric, acerbic side. |
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The Art of Marriage is filled with morsels like these, with the more acerbic among them often proving to be the tastiest. |
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It was then I discovered that our quiet chief sub was wickedly funny, totally irreverent, often cynical and very acerbic when occasion demanded it. |
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Also on the bill are acerbic newcomer Nick Dixon, regular improviser Dave Johns and former computer animator and comedy writer Henry Paker. |
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Needless to say, he nails it. His Deadpool strikes the perfect balance between acerbic smartass and comic doofus. |
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A SLICE of acerbic comedy Lily Savage-style is coming to central Birmingham next month. |
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His musings may be ultra-topical but fans will be glad to know the guitars are as grinding, and the delivery as acerbic, as ever. |
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Those consumers who object to the acerbic taste of garlic can purchase de-odorized garlic or allicin extract. |
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The acerbic lyrics denounce President Vladimir Putin, the Olympics and a number of political trials going on in Russia, and was accompanied by footage of the women in their trademark balaclavas in Sochi. |
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Don't be aghast at this acerbic wit, and tread carefully when responding. |
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What begins as a civil, if not joyful, reunion filled with food, drink, and acerbic conversation, quickly devolves into a morally questionable whirlwind of regret, reveals, reversals, and revelations. |
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American actress who thrived onstage with an unfiltered personality, raspy voice, and acerbic wit that allowed for performances that were at once flashy and forthright. |
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Her acerbic wit can provide a welcome change to the blokey, observational humour peddled by her male colleagues. |
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It does, however, mean that matter may be covered which, while apparently tactless, blunt and even acerbic, may seem at first blush to lack an openly hateful or contemptuous quality. |
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In my opinion, unjustly and overly often criticized in the media, Lady Gaga makes a masterstroke, who will make retain the silence at the acerbic criticism from many persons. |
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But the biggest change is undoubtedly the absence of Cowell, the man whose acerbic putdowns, geometric haircut and freakishly incandescent teeth put the show on the map in the first place. |
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History of the show, which has been hosted by acerbic Anne Robinson since it began and has been replicated by over 80 countries. |
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An acerbic politician and journalist who thrived on partisan controversy, and with no prior experience in an Upper Chamber, Senator Cauchon's appointment was unpopular in some quarters. |
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Others such as Bramante, Lorenzo Valla, Francesco Filelfo, and of course Poggio Bracciolini, made Milan the capital of a vigorous, acerbic brand of humanism, very different to that of Venice or Florence. |
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Sometimes when we were sitting together in Cabinet committee meetings, and I had comments that I did not really think I should say out loud, I would pass John a note with some acerbic comment. |
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In his articles for Arab newspapers such as An-Nahar, Al-Hayat, As-Safir and Al Quds Al Arabi, he is well known for his acerbic political analyses. |
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Factory managers and senior air force officers alike came to hate him, but without him, or someone equally acerbic, it is hard to see how the British would have lasted through the summer. |
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Without ever shedding his dignity, he had served up the perfect answer to all those who had been so acerbic in their criticisms over the previous years. |
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If, to return to Pope's acerbic take on courtship and wedlock, membership may be compared to marriage, it is now up to the Allies, new and old, to make sure that it works. |
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Following this manifest violation of United States territory, the American diplomatic response was equally spectacular, and the ambassadors in Washington and London exchanged a few acerbic missives. |
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The success of the piece rests not only in the flawlessness of the dancers' technique, but also in their ability to execute the acerbic steps with a sense of musicality. |
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So while Red Issue could be acerbic and offensive, its demise should sadden us all, because football still needs the spirit of the 1980s fanzine explosion. |
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On the show, the person who does most of the critiquing is Ms. Southwick, the delightfully acerbic hitwoman who has become the character to watch. |
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Presenting a constant challenge both at work and at home is George's tough and acerbic but loving mother, Benny, with whom he tries to maintain a civil relationship. |
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He rocks it up for the narrative Ain't No Way To Behave and the deliciously acerbic Pampered Pop Star Millionaire Miserabilist Blues in which he takes a pop at rock's gentry. |
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Later in life, Dirac's views towards the idea of God were less acerbic. |
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