Sentence examples for acerbic tone from inspiring English sources
"acerbic tone" is a correct and usable term in written English
It is used to describe a type of conversation or writing that is harsh and described as bitter or sour. For example, "The teacher's acerbic tone made the students feel intimidated and uncomfortable."
And the president's acerbic tone suggests that he knows as much.
Hamilton-Paterson quickly seduces the reader with the perfectly captured acerbic tone and timing of Gerald and Marta's badinage.
He loved the acerbic tone of the book's author, the syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage, and the frank portrayal of a gay man's dream for a family.
Rachel White, collections manager and archivist at the Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre, said the letter is written in Dahl's "trademark acerbic tone".
But I do feel the eternally waspish Hibbert would have savoured the acerbic tone of the readers' online commentary on that unfortunate front cover.
McLean's great achievements — his distinctive, acerbic tone and keening broken notes; his inquisitive musical mind that led him to bridge his bluff, hard-bop bluesiness into the avant-garde (and to pick daring young sidemen to match) — are well known.
Their voices prove a complementary blend, Bragg's lowering Essex moan cut through by Henry's higher, acerbic tones, while both men know how to make a guitar drive and ring.
For as long as she can sustain it, Vivian adopts an acerbic, bemused tone.
In S,M,L,XL (1995), urbanist and architectural theorist Rem Koolhaas took issue with the acerbic, ironic tone of the article, condemning it as a typical reaction by "dead parents deploring the mess [their] children have made of their inheritance".
Arctic Monkeys don't smoke crack and heroin every night but they do sound a bit like the Libertines, albeit with a more acerbic Northern tone to their Smiths-y lil' guitar jams.
The tone was acerbic and angry.
