| Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour. |
| The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge. |
| The person who brings this out in most women is that television presenter who had the mean little whiney, rebarbative jibes that suited her well. |
| Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. |
| Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage. |
| It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon. |
