Exempel på acerbity

• "You speak as though you control the weather," Jill said with acerbity.

• In spite of his occasional acerbity, he is a very warm person.

• She notes, with some acerbity, that she has to invent more macho excuses for time off than her male colleagues.

• I hope that we do not allow our present disagreements and acerbities to damage our relations.

• It will take time before these mutual acerbities die down.

• And, like all internal differences, this one is marked by some acrimony and sometimes some acerbity of speech.

• I hope neither his persistence nor his acerbity will be wanting on the present occasion.

• Such things sweeten the acerbities of political life.

• I do not think that there is any need for acerbity about this matter.

• It has gone with the utmost smoothness, and there has been hardly a note of acerbity at all.

• I hope that this debate on what is normally a sweet subject will not be soured by these acerbities.

• The fact was that he had to sweeten the acerbities of political antagonism by a lavish display of generosity.

• Acerbity, acrimony, and, as a result, bitterness, and a bitterness which is difficult to dissipate.

• The point is a perfectly straightforward one which should not be confused with these acerbities.

• I hope, however, that we do not part too much on terms of acerbity.

• We should not seek to add to the acerbity between police and public by including a clause of this kind.

• There are other ways in which a vast injection of public money could immediately relieve something of the acerbity of the present situation.

• I hope that, with that happy background, we shall find that our proceedings have the correct blend of amicability and acerbity.