| I tried to express my grief and sympathy, but he cut me short with some asperity. |
| Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity. |
| He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it. |
| Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |
| Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence. |
| Final is lightly marked by a certain asperity conferred by the still young tannins of red wine. |
