She threw a tantrum against Mr Advani on television and has been caustic about other party leaders.Then a famous television actress, who was a BJP election candidate, issued a call (later withdrawn) for the resignation of Narendra Modi, BJP chief minister of Gujarat.
Cabinet ministers evoke a wide variety of judgments, but I cannot recall anything quite so caustic as that of the celebrated journalist Bernard Levin, on the foreign secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, in 1959.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, James describes the act of gearing up to put out a new record as a "ballache", but attributes the recent Kickstarter campaign that raised $67,000 for the release of his 'lost' 1994 album Caustic Window as providing some of the impetus behind his return.
Lauten's remarks were more caustic.
The scene, in which she coats his scalp with a "caustic cloud" of insecticide, is an object lesson in the formation of intimacy through mutual embarrassment.
And it has earned the author both the 2015 Prix Goncourt for best first novel and a Facebook fatwa from a minor Muslim cleric calling for his death.The book starts as a caustic, rambling monologue told by an old man in a bar to an appropriately nameless French expat.
"It is not in our interest to have our close friend and our biggest market drift apart".Ms Thorning-Schmidt's attempt to avert the rift earned her a caustic reprimand from Nicolas Sarkozy.
At 54, he, like Mr Juppé, has a brilliant mind and caustic tongue, and is a natural loner.
She staves off the reader's frustration by filling gaps with educated guesses, mining Fitzgerald's juvenilia, decoding marginalia and, as Fitzgerald's quirks hardened into crabbiness, summarising the caustic notes the grande dame prepared on other writers".Those who did not like Penelope Fitzgerald found her reserved, perverse, stubborn, mischievous, wilful and sharp- tongued.
Mr Stedman Jones says that if the 1970s had not been so caustic, neoliberalism might have floundered.
Mr Fassina's suggestion, which prompted Mr Renzi's caustic Chi?, was for a reshuffle so that some of the mayor's chums could find out how hard it is to run a country.Italy has a long tradition of party leaders pulling the strings from outside the cabinet.
