| Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists. |
| The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge. |
| Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage. |
| That is why, come what may, we must protect the interests of the general public against the greed and unreason of rebarbative witlings. |
| Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. |
| But there is no getting around the fact that Kraus's work is rebarbative today. |
