(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.
Hypercritical
Definition:
(a.) Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
(a.) Excessively nice or exact.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main reasons why the program did not produce the other 142 comments were: insufficient data in the computer-based medical record; absence of sufficient medical consensus; and omissions in the database of hypercritic.
(2) Given the fickle and hypercritical nature of the group, in conceiving Spamalot Idle had to manage his expectations.
(3) HyperCritic has access to the data stored in a primary-care information system that supports a fully automated medical record.
(4) But four years after Greece went hypercritical, triggering a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and a reshaping of how the EU works, the social, economic and political costs of the upheaval are coming home to roost.
(5) On the basis of reviewing his role in the Medico-Psychological Association (MPA), his rather pessimistic and degenerationist philosophy, his undoubted wealth and his 'hypercritical nature', it is possible to define an alternative view of his significance and influence.
(6) The core of the model underlying HyperCritic is that the process of generating the critiquing statements is viewed as the application of a limited set of abstract critiquing tasks.
(7) Behind the scenes, it argues, Deng had become hypercritical and aggressive towards Murdoch.
(8) His peddling of a ‘moral’ justification for perpetuating fossil fuel dependence in developing countries is hypercritical and ill-informed.
(9) Calculation of an "index of merit" ([sensitivity + specificity] - 1) for individual reviewers showed that hypercritic performed better (index of merit 0.62) in its limited domain than did physician reviewers (0.3-0.56).
(10) Unlike some players, Murray is a superb analyst of his own tennis, often hypercritical and rarely complacent, even in moments of grand achievement.
(11) We have written a computer program called 'HyperCritic' that audits general practitioners' management of patients with essential hypertension by taking patient-specific data from the ELIAS system.
(12) Of 468 comments on patient management, 260 were judged correct by six or more of the physicians; hypercritic also made 118 of these 260 comments.
(13) We investigated whether the computer-based medical records contain sufficient information to generate critiques, and compared the limitations of audit by hypercritic with those of review by a panel of eight physicians.
(14) After detecting the relevant events in the medical record, HyperCritic views the task of critiquing as the assignment of critiquing statements to these patient-specific events.
(15) He was prone to shame and guilt, self-criticism, and hidden hypercritical attitudes toward others.
(16) We describe the design of a critiquing system, HyperCritic, that relies on automated medical records for its data input.
(17) Hypercritic and the physicians independently reviewed the medical records of 20 randomly selected patients with hypertension and commented on the decisions made at each of 243 patient visits.
(18) The principal advantage demonstrated by HyperCritic is the adaption of a domain-independent critiquing structure.