Sentence examples for acerbic language from inspiring English sources

For a half hour, two hosts will critique — in "candid and often acerbic" language, according to the channel — old clips from her 1990s cooking and craft show.

By the end of the 1940s he was heading toward a more acerbic language, and in the early 1950s he had found his own voice.

The report's authors, in acerbic language, trace the making of the deal as state officials scrambled to meet federal emissions requirements.

DAVIE, Fla., Oct. 9 - President Bush and Senator John Kerry stumped Saturday through four critical states, using increasingly acerbic language as they tried to capitalize on what they saw as the other's weak spots in a second debate that did not appear to give either man a clear edge.

The First Quartet (1954) breaks away, taking Bartok's acerbic harmonic language as a starting point, and magnifying it.

Scalia, notorious for speaking his mind in acerbic legal language, suggested that the Affordable Care Act – popularly known as Obamacare – should be renamed "SCOTUScare" in light of the court's "somersaults of statutory interpretation" and "interpretive jiggery-pokery" to uphold the controversial law.

At a Zynga meeting several days later, he read some of the most acerbic words.

Mr. Mulgrew's acerbic words are likely to win cheers from his union's 200,000 members.

He writes in elusive, acerbic terms — the "cool" language of younger people, who are his main readership — and gets away with statements that are at least as devastating as anything dissidents say.

They said his behavior never resembled abuse, and his coarse language and acerbic behavior were hardly out of line with what was expected at top-level college basketball programs.

These witty, wise, often acerbic essays on the language and trade of marketing were renowned throughout the industry for challenging orthodoxy, puncturing pretentiousness and provoking debate, and the best have been collected in the paperback Up Smith Creek (2011).