(1) Early on he wrote in a wide variety of outlets (including twice in the Guardian ), but his acerbic takes on the national security state have earned him a regular column at the paleocon mothership, the American Conservative.
(2) Lewis, 42, admitted he was "hugely embarrassed" after McKellen, 74, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, responsed acerbically in the Radio Times.
(3) Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker In recent years, Christmas at Scottish Ballet has been defined by Ashley Page’s witty, acerbic re-writes of the 19th century classics.
(4) In contrast, he returned to the mainstream in Robert Redford's factually based Quiz Show (1994), as the acerbic father to a fraudulent game-show contestant.
(5) Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Birmingham Yardley, has already posted an acerbic tweet.
(6) He was a man of contradictions: he was a romantic, but also an acerbic and difficult character.
(7) Other work in the show recalls Soviet-era propaganda posters, and twists political slogans to acerbic effect.
(8) The acerbic correspondence of Jones and Briffa with Michael Mann of Penn State University , the chief creator of the hockey stick graph, is a central feature of the emails.
(9) The result is a show whose rapid-paced, ultra-acerbic dialogue is as funny as anything on television at the moment.
(10) And we will address it.” The Vermont senator urged attendees to “join me in this campaign to build a future that works for all of us, and not just the few on top.” Although the acerbic left-winger is a political veteran, this will be his first Democratic primary.
(11) Mark Gardner, Community Security Trust On Holocaust Memorial Day 2013, the Sunday Times ran a cartoon by its famously acerbic cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe, that depicts Binyamin Netanyahu using blood to cement a wall that he is building, that has parts of bodies trapped within it.
(12) His acerbic former adviser Dominic Cummings , long loathed by David Cameron (the feeling is mutual), is the campaign director.
(13) His acerbic wit and combative manner can ruffle feathers.
(14) The acerbic comments from the official Xinhua news agency come after Clinton, while on an official visit to Africa , appeared to question China's motives in the region.
(15) It received a warm reception in the House of Lords, though one peer commented acerbically that Adonis’s predecessor, Ruth Kelly, had just two years earlier called such a project “opportunistic, economically illiterate and hugely damaging to Britain’s national interests”.
(16) Angela Eagle The chair of the Labour national policy forum and shadow leader of the house has an acerbic wit capable of putting most Tory ministers on the back foot.
(17) Erdoğan’s acerbic response on Monday suggested the EU’s concerns were justified.
(18) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
(19) "As the wonderfully acerbic Anne Robinson said, 'The viewers don't want to watch ugly.'"
(20) The hashtag #Clapper on Twitter is filled with acerbic tweets mocking the "least untruthful" line.
Embitter
Definition:
(v. t.) To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Embittered, he fled to America, settling in Langley, Virginia, a stone's throw from CIA headquarters.
(2) "In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekohov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive."
(3) Women are dead (McAdams), betrayed (Laurence) or embittered (Rita Ora, on hand as a “tough junkie with a kid to protect”, according to Harvey Weinstein).
(4) In the past the O'Reilly camp tried to paint O'Brien as embittered by his attempt, in the dotcom days, to buy Ireland's former state-owned telecoms monopoly, Eircom - which O'Reilly foiled.
(5) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
(6) "You're not old, and I'm sure you're not embittered – You like people too much."
(7) On stage, Lee is apparently an embittered, envious, self-lacerating man, caught in a ferocious double-bind: if he’s unsuccessful it’s because his audience are stupid shits who don’t get his jokes; and if he’s successful it’s because he’s a stupid shit churning out jokes that confirm his audience in their prejudices.
(8) In the seven years since, though, he's had four Oscar nominations and matured exponentially with each film, his efforts culminating in this year's devastating tragicomedy Young Adult , which furnished Charlize Theron with a career-best role as embittered ghostwriter Mavis Gary.
(9) Will Self meets Stewart Lee: ‘Are you really, ultimately embittered, or not?’ Read more The funniest person I know Roger Mann, who gave up comedy in the mid 90s to live in rural France and play in a Beatles covers band.
(10) An embittered Magnier sold his shares to the Florida businessman Malcolm Glazer .
(11) A legislature that acts with complete impunity will further embitter the population and destabilize Hong Kong.
(12) Two years later he was outraged when the title track of Born in the USA, written in the voice of an embittered Vietnam veteran, was appropriated by the Republican party, who mistook its deceptively exultant chorus and tried to use it as a flag-waving campaign anthem for Ronald Reagan.
(13) I’m sorry to Jeremy and the Labour party that I am caught up in this but it wasn’t me that started this problem, this is embittered old Blairites bringing it up,” he said.
(14) On the other hand, seven years is a long time and powerful influences that have been chipping away at Qatar, not least embittered losing bidders in the US and Australia, are unlikely to give up.
(15) Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves.
(16) The Rwandan president is also embittered that countries, led by the US and UK, that blocked intervention to stop the 1994 genocide, and France which sided with the Hutu extremist regime that led the killings, are now judging him on human rights.
(17) In the often embittered industrial relations on London's transport network, the RMT union says that outlying stations are sometimes now left unstaffed, monitored instead from a one nearby.
(18) Pro: You hate everyone – you're an embittered feminist to whom nobody listens.
(19) Sir Mark, titular head of the Thatcher family, was speaking earlier this week of the "very sad moment" of his mother's death, in what must have been his first formal interview before the UK's TV cameras since his rather embittered exile from the UK almost 30 years before.
(20) Amid argument among analysts as to what has been behind the stream of "green on blue" attacks, Nato officers on the ground are reported to have ascribed them mainly to disgruntled and embittered Afghan security forces with grudges against their western mentors.