(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.
Vinegary
Definition:
(a.) Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Daddies is a little more spicy and vinegary than HP: I'd go for that.
(2) Before Corbynite radicalism seized the left and Ukip’s vinegary nationalism suffused the right, debate was conducted in shades of difference within a broad consensus.