What's the difference between acerbic and hypercritical?

Acerbic


Definition:

  • (a.) Sour or severe.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.