(1) Known for his acerbic wit, sharp tongue, and occasional profanity, he stood out among the colorless bureaucrats who ruled Poland.

(2) He instantly wished he could take back the acerbic comment.

(3) His prose is peppered with acerbic wit and keen insight.

(4) Thinly veiled insults and acerbic comments are the tools of his or her trade.

(5) Written with erudition and firm, if sometimes quirky, opinion, the book is interlarded with humor and acerbic comment.

(6) I nearly offered my usual acerbic response of u2018And your point is, exactly?u2019

(7) The author's uncompromising critical insights and acerbic style, both humorous and original, make the reading of this work a feast for both the mind and soul.

(8) Ed is known for his acerbic wit and often outlandish and controversial commentary.

(9) Marrying thought provoking lyrics with great melodies and his trademark acoustic guitar playing, his music is underlined with an acerbic and sometimes sarcastic wit.

(10) You should have a sassy woman who knows her food but also has acerbic comments to make about corporate America and the food industry.

(11) Back in January, when it began to snow, I made some acerbic comment that all the 4x4 drivers will be coming into their own.

(12) For more than 50 years he has brought to the Bar his consummate advocacy skills combined with an acerbic wit and a sharp legal mindu2026

(13) He takes his shots at me, but he has an acerbic , curmudgeonly style that gives me a laugh and he happily owns up to his prejudices.

(14) He has a lazy, matey sort of north London accent, longingly smokes each cigarette, as if it is his last, and has an acerbic wit, usually directed against himself.

(15) His style is acerbic , his humour disquiets, his directness can shock.

(16) He is sharp and acerbic and readily entertains.

(17) Jeff and the tenacious Steve - who had continued to make acerbic comments about her the whole evening - sat in the two recliners on either side of the couch.

(18) Full of my usual razor sharp wit and acerbic commentary coupled with pithy, erudite and provoking insights into the unfolding world about me.

(19) The old man never once turned around to look at the speaker, but his reply was undeniably acerbic in nature.

(20) His question wasn't acerbic , but quite inquisitive.

(21) Of the more than five hundred strips reproduced, most come from the 1950s and sixties, which connoisseurs consider u2018Peanutsu2019 heyday for its level of literary wit and shocking acerbity .

(22) Another newspaper and another story, acerbically pointing out: u2018One of the standard replies which citizens complaining to police about thefts hear is, u2018check in the pawn shopsu2019.u2019

(23) She expresses it in her typically acerbically entertaining way.

(24) She replied acerbically : u2018Once you've lived through the diagnosis, the worst is behind you.u2019

(25) Burke's contemporaries thought his Indian speeches u2018too full of acerbity , and much too passionate and exaggerated,u2019 and even today the English academy condemns his language, most often blaming his Irishness for the excesses.

(26) Even as he held magisterial power over the audience (he asked for quiet and got it) during the autobiographical u2018Freehold,u2019 Springsteen offered not an oversincere paean to his hometown but an acerbically funny look at small-town life.

(27) What I always found amusing was that her acerbity fitted well with the rumbustious nature of the setting.

(28) Nonetheless, the wife cannot resist him, and her complicity is evident in the desperate acerbity of their dialogue.

(29) He replied with more than a hint of acerbity : u2018I thought that the home team was supposed to have it easy!u2019

(30) Flying on the wings of an ubiquitous electric slide guitar, a distinctive if quavering voice, and her acerbically accurate songwriting, the Ottawa songwriter has crafted what sounds suspiciously like a Canadian roots rock classic.