I tried to express my grief and sympathy, but he cut me short with some asperity. |
Certainly, Jeremy had retorted with asperity, I dared to use it in the ground instead of in some pudding! |
He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it. |
There was a muttered exclamation indicative of exasperation and the rejoinder with some asperity. |
Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity. |
Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |