The acerbic greens, muddy blues and meaty pinks are soothing.
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She is a positive force, mischievous and at times acerbic.
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Her smart, hilariously acerbic performance in this summer's Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Shkreli, however, commented, in acerbic fashion, on his case on Facebook.
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There was a soft heart for people behind the acerbic wit.
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The dialogue is acerbic, especially the sparring between Devgn and Shukla's characters.
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Mr McDonagh chronicles the various reactions to her provocation with acerbic humour.
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Ms. Miller, being as airy as Ms. Horowitz was acerbic, simply laughs.
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Even blockbuster exercises such as "Mission: Impossible" (1996) managed an acerbic undercurrent.
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How else can you advertise to an acerbic populace than by baiting them?
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Delany's thinking and in her own hand—she offers witty, acerbic commentary from
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It introduced readers to the acerbic wit that suffused Ms. Brookner's later work.
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But this was a more acerbic and combative affair than Tuesday's ideological slugfest.
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He has taken his acerbic humor to, among other places, the American Midwest.
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Communication between the Democratic and Republican Senators on the committee was already acerbic.
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As ever, it's Happy Valley's acerbic wit that cuts through the heavy drama.
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It's eight short, acerbic, wittily profound episodes with a richly satisfying ending(s).
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It was not the relationship to power the acerbic Mr Stewart would have liked.
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Members of the news media did not escape the president's acerbic sense of humor.
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Some Democrats have expressed frustration over Trump's acerbic approach toward Canada in the negotiations.Rep.
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She was sharp on her message, confident with crowds and acerbic with cynical reporters.
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Krysten Ritter takes the silver medal as the perennially drunk and acerbic Jessica Jones.
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He is known for addressing other people's quandaries with acerbic wit and bracing honesty.
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Justice Scalia was a firebrand known for opinions that were eloquent but often acerbic.
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Her unmistakable voice, acerbic and personal, has a way of jumping off the page.
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Tully's strength lies in Cody's signature harmony between acerbic, wry humor, and stark, naked emotion.
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Indeed Twitter remains awash with acerbic commentary, well after "The Story of Adidon" was released.
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Courtney is still acerbic and he still doesn't suffer fools, but he's distinctly more mellow.
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It's not all acerbic jokes and violent impalings, though, and that's where the trouble lurks.
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" Ms. Perlman won four Emmy Awards as the acerbic waitress Carla Tortelli in NBC's "Cheers.
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Elsewhere in her practice, Rasheed has worked with language in more direct and acerbic ways.
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They are full of silences, wan light, somber darkness, acerbic humor, and signs of disintegration.
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First, though not foremost, among the Spadas is Grandpa Gugliemo, Paolo's anticlerical, acerbic-tongued great-uncle.
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The same is true for Mr McCartney, whose catchy tunes benefited from John Lennon's acerbic contributions.
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It's pretty hard to imagine getting enough of Jennifer Lawrence's hilariously acerbic, irresistibly self-deprecating wit.
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Spy had a very sharp, acerbic, you might say mean, edge to it at various times.
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A lot lose their flowery notes and become more acerbic and aggressive as time goes by.
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Last year, Strait released an unusually acerbic song called "Kicked Outta Country," which he co-wrote.
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Her jabs at Seth and his more empathetic approach to his work can be savagely acerbic.
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Her comically acerbic friend Suzanne (Skyler Volpe) is one, an underage French immigrant (Cathryn Wake) another.
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At first, Rumsfeld is the mentor — an acerbic congressman from Illinois while Cheney is an intern.
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In each one, the judge has wielded an acerbic wit and ironclad control of the courtroom.
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A sometimes acerbic meditation on loss and love, the novel was among this year's critical favorites.
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I tried again with a question, only this time my tone was less sentimental, more acerbic.
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This physical and mental absence, however, does not prevent Dottie from providing an acerbic running commentary.
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Mahony is soon joined in his quest for the truth by the bored and acerbic Mrs.
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Soon after, in one of his many acerbic interviews, Trump essentially challenged Tillerson to an IQ test.
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"I mean, visually they look like dog biscuits," the infamously acerbic chef said as the audience laughed.
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Then, Miley Cyrus's acerbic rasp added a welcome punch, bringing the performance to its climactic, pyrotechnic swell.
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The woman I got to know as a child was tough and funny, with an acerbic wit.
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And Marano plays Celia with a pleasing acerbic spikiness that contrasts beautifully with Centineo's nice-guy chill.
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Until recently, the exchanges between Mr. Lieberman and the government he is joining were no less acerbic.
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Britain's acerbic Ricky Gervais will take over hosting duties from comedy duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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The court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed in her acerbic dissent in the new case, Gonzales v.
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At first her tone was acerbic, skeptical that there was any point in talking to a journalist.
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There's no mistaking the acerbic sound of Mr. Lake's alto saxophone; it's both quizzical and deadly serious.
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Compared to Kayleigh, the acerbic and genderqueer Alex (Rosie Dwyer) is very much above all the drama.
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Even a brilliantly acerbic chat-show interrogator can't unseat him, because Jamie's got so much more bandwidth.
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And so, in addition to Sweelinck's queasy downward-slithering tunes, there were acerbic harmonic juxtapositions and clashes.
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It could, though I wouldn't say it always succeeded, because he was usually pretty sharp and acerbic.
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Maybe. We all are—including Murphy himself, obviously, who's made a career out of aging with acerbic grace.
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He had plenty of complaints about the modern golf game and could be quite acerbic in enumerating them.
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Veep loves its physical comedy as much as its acerbic wordplay, and Timothy Simons pulls it off excellently.
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The White House offered a more acerbic response after the story ran, calling it "absurd," and slamming Comey.
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The song has the murky, wilted sound of 2017 pop, but the acerbic lyrics of an earlier era.
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In addition, his reader-friendly writing style has been compared favorably to Scalia's brilliant but more acerbic prose.
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Five years after You're The Worst began, television and culture have caught up to the show's acerbic outlook.
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But in "Love's Refrain," he offers up his deeply passionate soul, only sometimes camouflaged by his acerbic wit.
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That account's tweets did contain comments on the ongoing trial and were written in Shkreli's often-acerbic style.
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He was the outsider, too authentic and even acerbic to be tamed by the convention of the elites.
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Turns out, barista's can be thoughtful in their own cattily acerbic way—you just might not appreciate it.
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And for all of Dose Your Dreams' acerbic grumblings, it's a record genuinely and wholly committed to giving hope.
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The freewheeling, acerbic, often vulgar and offensive maverick of the campaign trail has 70 days to become a president.
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On You're the Worst, we're used to seeing acerbic characters storm through Los Angeles with determined, even reckless apathy.
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Joking that Pioneer was the "motherfracker," Einhorn, known for his acerbic presentations, showed dozens of slides emphasizing his point.
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It is also evident that Cruz didn't develop his acerbic personality when he arrived in Washington three years ago.
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I think she is a little more sort of acerbic and odd and vain and weird in the books.
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Putin made an acerbic reference to the U.S. coat of arms at the start of his meeting with Bolton.
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Dick and I weren't close, but he was a genial, well-liked guy: smart, funny, and, yes, sometimes acerbic.
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Thanks to his expert trolling abilities, and his acerbic and irreverent jabs and jokes he's constantly winning us over.
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Enter "fake clickbait"—especially ClickHole, from the minds behind The Onion—as a new form of acerbic social commentary.
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Even among Twitter's notoriously acerbic user base, it was hard to find criticism about the quality of Thursday's stream.
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Once an ambitious and acerbic journalist, she's now a weepy, Xanax-popping college student thanks to the Underwood trauma.
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The wickedly acerbic canvases of Christine Wang (Platform 294, presented by Night Gallery, Pier 123) originated in internet memes.
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Today, our political climate is marked by increasingly acerbic and polarizing rhetoric on all sides of the political spectrum.
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"Noels out of the [expletive] country weren't we all love," Liam Gallagher wrote in a characteristically acerbic Twitter rant.
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Clinton's inner circle have said that the acerbic comments of Ms. Tanden, a former top policy adviser to Mrs.
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Mr. Liu, who died Thursday, was a passionate and acerbic lecturer and literary critic in Beijing in the 1980s.
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She marries, then divorces, Paul Simon, reinvents the funny best friend trope, and unleashes her acerbic wit on the world.
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During this unhealthy diet, her vagina's taste didn't come across as acerbic, but definitely a bit more pungent than usual.
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If a post includes redface, nasty caricatures, or even the acerbic Twitter troll attacking Natives, it's most likely offensive. 13.
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There's Nana, of course, played by the wonderfully acerbic Cathy Moriarty, who believes her "superstar" will get there one day.
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Apple shot back with an acerbic response at the time, accusing Spotify of profiting off the exploitation of artists' work.
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To have such an acerbic mental state looming at you in billboard-size paintings is weirdly transporting, if not comforting.
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But, as could be expected, when it was all said and (hopefully) done, acerbic argument gave way to collegial progress.
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How many listeners would enjoy Stravinsky's tricky, acerbic "Agon" were it not for George Balanchine's penetrating ballet to the score?
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"black-ish" — acerbic where "Cosby" was earnest — is focused on black identity in relation to a larger, multiracial, multivalent culture.
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It was a free-for-all that must've had Trump campaign advisers laughing out loud with each increasingly acerbic barb.
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Known for being outspoken, his acerbic, blunt style has at times upset his own people as well as foreign leaders.
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It's a sharp, acerbic hit of inventive rock 'n' roll, the band's first with Damo Suzuki's James "Bo" Smith on guitar.
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Little known outside the region, Mr Qahtani looms large in the Gulf, using social media to launch acerbic attacks on critics.
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"Underneath all the bravado and the acerbic remarks and the cutting-edge humor, she was a really vulnerable woman," he said.
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Calanthe is an erudite woman who uses her violent temper and acerbic humor to bully and cow the men around her.
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But Bloom and Stevens are most captivated by Fisher and Reynolds' close adult relationship, which is simultaneously acerbic and heartbreakingly sweet.
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Scott's Germany mission also endangered original Ant-Man Hank Pym (Michael Douglas, acerbic as ever) and his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly).
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Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit.
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President Meyer is as deliciously acerbic as ever after five seasons, and Dreyfus's work is nothing short of a national treasure.
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The audience naturally aligns itself with the Westernised Muna, but her acerbic wit and astute observations of life endear her further.
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Acqua di Parma, Chinotto di Liguria The acerbic chinotto orange is not very popular outside of Italy, but it should be.
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She's nicely acerbic and flinty as Rosemary, with a wide-eyed idealism that becomes increasingly desperate as the episode goes on.
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But Mr. Grenell is also an acerbic combatant who throws regular punches at "fake news" reporters and Mr. Trump's opponents online.
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Oh and the Dowager Countess (played by the legendary Maggie Smith) and her acerbic one-liners deserve their own spinoff show.
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You also supported Dieter Helm's acerbic criticisms of British energy policy for directing subsidies towards particular technologies, such as offshore wind.
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Maciej Ceglowski, the brilliantly acerbic writer-thinker-entrepreneur, recently returned from a month in the city-state reporting on the protests.
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" A beat later: "He covers his acerbic face with his hands, as if he could feel his visage with his fingers.
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" Added HBO programming president Casey Bloys, "We are thrilled that Larry will be back with his uniquely acerbic wit and comedic sensibility.
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There were some dissenters, like the acerbic writer Evgeny Morosov, but they were largely brushed aside in an Arab Spring-induced high.
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Clinton's most acerbic allies, challenging both her critics and unflattering news stories about her, and increasingly turning his fire on Mr. Sanders.
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Both sell for under $10 on Amazon, so think of them as pretty well-priced notebooks with an acerbic sense of humor.
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Lucid and acerbic, she seems like a cross between the Dowager Countess of Grantham and one of the less savory Mitford sisters.
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The good new is: No matter where you start, in everything he does, Sedaris' acerbic humor crackles but it's not without heart.
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For four years, she's been skewering the news with her acerbic comedy — while bringing issues of sexism and race to the forefront.
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A question on the extent of illegal logging prompted an acerbic response from Mr. Putin in his annual news conference in December.
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Mr. Johnson followed the well-received "Skeleton Twins" with "Wilson," an acerbic 2017 comedy adapted from a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes.
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Is she the prickly, acerbic, neurotic weirdo, or the girl next door in the sheath black dress and the bland rom-com?
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It's the beginning of the end of this acerbic comedy series about a married couple, Rob (Rob Delaney) and Sharon (Sharon Horgan).
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Rap metal was coming into existence, but felt too acerbic for the flannel-clad rockers who preferred the Vinnie Paul side of Pantera.
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However, it is clear that along with his tactical skills, his acerbic personality has made it difficult for him to enjoy sustained relationships.
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Ms. Houdyshell's Deirdre is staunch and frustrated, acerbic and tender, a fully realized and immediately recognizable woman rather than some mere stage creation.
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From his acerbic political comebacks to his undying love/hate for a man named Kevin, here are some of Delaney's most memorable tweets.
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Fourteen years later, Hart presented a more acerbic version of his views on the subject with the 2015 book The Republic of Conscience.
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Listening to Tyler speak about his new home, it's clear LA has done nothing to dampen his acerbic observations on place and history.
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I would spend far too much time on one Status Update, ensuring it contained exactly the right balance of originality and acerbic wit.
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Ross, who has collaborated with the supremely acerbic Austrian Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek, made two significant and successful choices for Request Concert.
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At story conferences with producers, Dorothy curbed her acerbic tongue, and within four years she and Alan racked up credits on 15 films.
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Ms. Glaspy's debut album, "Emotions and Math," released last summer, was a fine showcase for her acerbic lyrics and quietly intense guitar playing.
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He was acerbic and often acted like the smartest guy in the room, usually because he was the smartest guy in the room.
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You can hear snatches of The Raincoats' frenetic outsider punk, Pere Ubu's angular grooves, and Jens Lekman's acerbic lyrical sensibilities in the mix.
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" Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times's architecture critic, was more acerbic, describing the skyscraper as a "middle finger stuck up at the city.
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Mr. Minhaj, 31, joined "The Daily Show" in 2014 and has become popular among viewers with his cheerfully acerbic takes on current events.
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But he has reinvented himself as a more decisive politician in recent months, on occasion deploying acerbic wit to tear into Mr. Modi.
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He became an outspoken, witty and acerbic writer and speaker, who was deified or vilified by people on opposite sides of the political divide.
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But long before Diet Prada was policing fashion's deep waters, there was Joan Rivers' acerbic red-carpet commentary and her Fashion Police TV show.
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With that in mind, Madonna gave a surprise speech in the nation's capital yesterday, addressing the Women's March in her own forthright, acerbic fashion.
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Though McCarthy's acerbic portrayal of Sean Spicer on Saturday's SNL had the White House press secretary calling it "funny," Trump was apparently less amused.
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If you were a fan of the first two seasons of this acerbic little show but got lost around Season 3, I hear you.
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Mr Gandhi, who until recently was widely regarded as a political weakling, has begun offering a steady barrage of acerbic barbs, to growing effect.
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They are sort of perfect for each other in all their dirty, acerbic weirdness, but have to intensely speed up the process of courtship.
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Steinhauer makes herself a character in her account, sharing with readers some witty and at times acerbic observations that keep the narrative moving along.
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Even Mr. Schiff, known for playing acerbic characters like Toby Ziegler on "The West Wing," is cast here as an avuncular guardian teddy bear.
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Rather, it was the writing, journalism unlike any I'd ever read, sympathetic and evocative and inventive but also sharp-eyed and precise and acerbic.
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Fortunately, a good friend — the acerbic, mildly effeminate Churton Saunders (a delightfully droll Hugh Sachs), called Chuffy — is there to offer counsel and sympathy.
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"It is going to get more acerbic, more focused," said Dick Harpootlian, a South Carolina state senator who sits on Biden's campaign finance committee.
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I'd come alone, not having any friends who were eager to drop $100 to see Fran wax acerbic on secondhand smoke and Rudy Giuliani.
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It's Shakespeare mixed with Greek tragedy, plus a healthy dose of acerbic humor that disguises the high stakes until long after you've gotten hooked.
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It's heavy stuff, but brilliantly punctuated by Dear White People's acerbic sense of humor in a way that only emphasizes the characters' individual personalities.
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Veep is, especially in its recent seasons, an acerbic and highly fictionalized representation of the political system that (barely) keeps the US propped up.
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Now 943, Jones remains one of the more colorful figures in the game, a former player with an acerbic wit and a penchant for insults.
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With her typical acerbic wit, Ms Cusk skewers the pretensions of the literary world while simultaneously upholding the intrinsic value of literature—no small feat.
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Al al-Sheikh's remarks drew an acerbic retort from Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who said they were evidence of bigotry among Saudi leaders.
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The same can't be said for the fatalistic ethos of Vince Staples's Summertime '06, an acerbic project that offers a very different, very valid worldview.
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I can't think of a stronger symbolic lead than Kimmel's son — a sick, wealthy kind with a devastating illness — followed closely by his acerbic father.
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In her gallery debut in May, Bernstein showed paintings from her series The Birth of the Universe, an acerbic meditation on all-consuming maternal rage.
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A retrospective at Blum & Poe brings together paintings and drawings that lay out in frank and acerbic terms a snapshot of American racism and misogyny.
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Goldstein wrote the music), which range from propulsive pop to an acerbic tango to a humorous duet of immigrant one-upmanship ("We Had It Worse").
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As the equally acerbic and tragic Beatrice (Wendie Malick) tries to remember her past, the episode renders her flashbacks through the filter of her dementia.
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Ms. Lind is well matched by Alison Wright's shrewd Emilia, Desdemona's handmaiden and Iago's wife, who has a will as sharp as her acerbic tongue.
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The author of "Chaos Monkeys," an acerbic Silicon Valley memoir, García Martínez wanted a refuge that would be far from cities but not entirely isolated.
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It's been twenty-five years since Emanuel first came to national attention, in his early thirties, as an ambitious, acerbic aide on Bill Clinton's campaign.
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Jimmy Fallon is to host the 74th Golden Globes in all of his goofy glory, taking the reins from the acerbic British comedian Ricky Gervais.
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Skinner, notorious for his acerbic wit, was known as the "Beast of Bolsover" for his role in a particularly fractious debate in parliament in 1977.
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Skinner, notorious for his acerbic wit, was known as the "Beast of Bolsover" for his role in a particularly fractious debate in parliament in 1977.
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Managers began picking coders less on the basis of aptitude and more on how well they fit a personality type: the acerbic, aloof male nerd.
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Her aversion to nonsense isn't merely acerbic—calm and well-spoken though she remains, she can still run you over with her full-on bitterness.
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He not only made an enemy of the government, but also riled fellow intellectuals and activists with his acerbic, rough, often coarse, observations of their weaknesses.
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While North Korea's Tuesday statement came in reaction to Biden's Kim comment, it's also worth looking at Pyongyang's acerbic words as a clear message to Trump.
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Kathmandu's Binaash, which features guitarist Prateek Raj Neupane, also of Ugrakarma, plays a mix of brutal death metal and acerbic, humor-laden grind a la Birdflesh.
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" And acerbic about the contemporary sports world, as in a drawing of a fielder in mid-error saying to a teammate: "Whaddya want for 19 mil?
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So where's that huge, looming, acerbic anger and contempt that drove me to metal in the first place, but which isn't laced with boneheaded reactionary politics?
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The main target of the acerbic satire in this episode is Fox's "Glee," which the show also criticized in Season 1 for rarely using original music.
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A colourful character who is often pictured holding a pint of beer, 55-year-old Farage's acerbic euroscepticism was the bane of committed Europeans in Brussels.
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Anton, an at times acerbic communicator, was well liked by his White House colleagues and known as the rare conservative intellectual that joined the Trump administration.
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A colourful character who is often pictured holding a pint of beer, 55-year-old Farage's acerbic euroscepticism was the bane of committed Europeans in Brussels.
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Mr. Nichols published an autobiography, wryly called "Feeling You're Behind," in 1984; in 2000 he published the entertainingly acerbic diaries he kept from 1969 to 1977.
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The result is at once a work of efficient charm and, to those of us who treasured Frears in his more acerbic phase, a mild disappointment.
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There's Chess's best friend, Kate (Jenny Rose Baker) — you can tell she's rebellious because she is acerbic and wears a flannel shirt tied around her waist.
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With acerbic British comedian Ricky Gervais hosting for the first time in four years, anything could happen at the informal, often boozy dinner in Beverly Hills.
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The very first episode of Netflix's gloriously acerbic BoJack Horseman begins with its alcoholic has-been of a title character offering a spirited defense of crappy sitcoms.
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Huawei issued an acerbic public statement on Tuesday following a report from the Wall Street Journal that US prosecutors are investigating new allegations of intellectual property theft.
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Several said the move appeared aimed at testing Mr. Trump, who has antagonized Beijing with acerbic words and actions on issues like Taiwan, trade and North Korea.
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Popovich was the acerbic but caring old-school master, R.C. Buford the erudite front-office presence and Peter Holt the owner who let them do their jobs.
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Proudly antediluvian, with an admitted fondness for drinking and smoking, the acerbic Mr. Zeman has been criticized as contributing to the coarseness of the current political climate.
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Though there is no actual sound component to the installation, it is the artist's voice you first encounter upon entering; a voice with an amusingly acerbic tone.
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If Ms. Jelinek's acerbic play has a whiff of Vienna's storied bitterness and cynicism, Mr. Amir shows us the opposite side of the coin: sentimentality and schlock.
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Severus is for Severus Snape, the acerbic potions professor Harry spent years loathing before he discovered that Snape was a brave and decent guy, just deep undercover.
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Mr. Livingstone is no stranger to controversy and has been one of the most acerbic figures on the left wing of the Labour Party for several decades.
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Her appearances on "Late Night," like reading the "Top 10 Things Found in Dave's Mom's Refrigerator," brought a sweetness and warmth that softened Mr. Letterman's acerbic sensibility.
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Ultimately, its propulsion has less to do with the soundtrack or the filmed sequences than with the dynamism that the actors bring to the acrobatic and acerbic prose.
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But for now, they'll have to content themselves with the acerbic character study of Mister America, a film which the characters themselves say to "avoid at all costs."
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Specifically, "Highway To Hell" suited the good-natured motel dweller antics of My Name Is Earl, the acerbic dramedic wit of House, and the hauntingly implausible Sleepy Hollow.
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The answers to her problems aren't clear, but at least now—inventive and acerbic as ever—Kline can safely say that she's still miles away from selling out.
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Huawei has issued an acerbic public statement following a report from the Wall Street Journal last week that US prosecutors are investigating new allegations of intellectual property theft.
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You're the Worst has had its rough patches, but whenever it turns its eyes toward being a straightforward rom-com with an acerbic point of view, it's aces.
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And while Jenkins himself remains a shadowy figure, in Powell's words "more to be pitied than blamed," he is given a wonderfully acerbic and baroque way with words.
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Growing up gay often times mean growing a thick skin and acerbic wit to combat ignorant bullies, and the reading challenge feels like the natural extension of that.
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He was perhaps best known for his witty, acerbic "Style Guy" fashion advice column, which he began at Details magazine, then wrote for GQ from 1999 to 2015.
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Trumps public comments about how Amazon pays its taxes surely has Bezos on high alert and, as someone with an acerbic edge, it's unlikely Bezos will remain silent.
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I would love to load Churchill into a time machine and enjoy his acerbic observations on today's politics, but have a hard time seeing him as our contemporary.
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At a time in which American politics can be acerbic, the large, diverse and civic-minded group of candidates running for this local office is a refreshing change.
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Further, it could also function as an acerbic joke about the nature of "gay icons," and how quickly and arbitrarily some gay icons (see: Nick Jonas) are anointed.
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In "Do Not Consider Us Forgotten," the Cleveland art collective named acerbic presents poems printed in stark, black type interposed over portraits of anonymous Clevelanders in street scenes.
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JONATHAN MOYO - A slick propagandist and former information minister, Moyo was G40's brains and mouthpiece who never shied away from an acerbic comment or Tweet about his rivals.
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From the few details Netflix is offering, it's easy to imagine a sort of epic-fantasy version of Futurama, with the same acerbic, absurdist humor as Groening's other shows.
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She played the character as warm but never soft — an acerbic, brilliant force who got referred to as a "robot" and a "machine," but who was far from heartless.
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Early in her campaign, Clinton had an acerbic private exchange with several protesters who felt as if Clinton was talking down to them and being dismissive of their efforts.
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But Scalia's personal warmth should not preclude considering to what extent his jurisprudence and his famously acerbic tone may have contributed to the polarized national conversation about the court.
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But it's difficult to imagine that the Presidential Library is not poking some sort of acerbic, antagonistic fun at Roth, giddily provoking further agitation while paying him grand tribute.
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Agree with him or not -- I thought he was hopelessly wrong on gay rights and deference to administrative agencies, for example -- there was a method to his acerbic pen.
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But the GOP solidified their Senate majority after an acerbic midterm election that enshrined America's deep divides and shaped a highly contentious battleground for the stirring 2020 presidential race.
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The GOP solidified their Senate majority after an acerbic midterm election that enshrined America's deep divides and shaped a highly contentious battleground for the stirring 2020 presidential race. 1.
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Indeed, Mr. Bruce, whose acerbic and profane observations about society inspired generations of comedians who wanted to do more than just tell jokes, is having a pop culture resurgence.
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The acerbic exchange came against the backdrop of what is shaping up to be some of the worst flooding to strike Iran since the Islamic revolution 40 years ago.
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A guitarist by turns meditative and acerbic, Harrison recently released "Angel Band," the third in a series of albums devoted to works from the American folk and country songbooks.
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Postmodern architecture had always gestured toward the antique past, usually in a mode of acerbic or calculatingly boisterous irony, but Kuma's wild gesticulations in M2 were grotesque and overwhelming.
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As Rob, short for Robin, in High Fidelity, she actually has personality; she's acerbic, effortlessly cool in her Doc Martens, and convincingly knowledgeable about music, but disarmingly vulnerable too.
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Elliott Abrams, Mr. Tillerson's first choice to be deputy secretary of state, was rejected after Mr. Trump decided that his campaign criticisms of Mr. Trump had been too acerbic.
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Or, perhaps, the acerbic tone encouraged by the site's previously imposed limit will slowly fade away — leaving nothing but thoughtful discussions and rambling polite disagreements (don't hold your breath).
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It even acquired a new and essential incongruity, introducing a sweetness and warmth that made him more relatable to viewers who might have been alienated by his acerbic sensibility.
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The melodic register of the track is lush and peaceful, but in typical fashion, Jamal Moss voices everything in acerbic distortion, giving it a highly personal and tactile feel.
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Played to acerbic perfection by Renée Zellweger — who even earned an Oscar nomination for the role — Bridget is smarter than most people in the room, but still hates herself.
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" Anderson was even more acerbic in a recent essay that argues LGBT rights will penalize people of faith, saying the bargain means "one side advances and the other is punished.
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In his 277 years on the Supreme Court bench, Scalia's acerbic wit and vicious attacks on social issues, like gay rights, birth control and abortion, made him a controversial character.
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In his 29 years on the Supreme Court bench, Scalia's acerbic wit and vicious attacks on social issues, like gay rights, birth control and abortion, made him a controversial character.
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If they are working on documents together, then they are probably working well together, too (or just leaving acerbic comments on marketing presentations, but you get the general idea here).
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David Hammons's self-portrait series, ironically titled America the Beautiful, in which he records his image by flattening himself against the paper to accentuate his features, renders an acerbic commentary.
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Mr. Burnett, 59, is a self-contained, acerbic, existential atheist with an earring, while Mr. Evans, 63, is an outgoing, verbose, practicing Christian with the gray beard of a philosopher.
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From Richard Ford I had learned an acerbic and more shrouded form of male sexuality, one that was, somehow, easier to take because less was there in black and white.
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"The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be," Mr. Macron said Thursday in an especially acerbic tweet.
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Just as Dayanara, a soft-spoken amateur cartoonist, has suddenly become an armed rebel, "Orange," an acerbic comedy-drama, is instantly pushed hard to the drama end of the spectrum.
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Dushe Dianying, or "poison tongue movie", a popular movie-review site known for its acerbic critiques, had its account on WeChat shut down last month by regulators citing "socialist values".
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Weiner was best known for his fiery speeches and acerbic, combative wit until 2011, when he was forced to step down after he posted a photograph of his crotch on Twitter.
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" In a statement accompanying the video, AARP Studios Vice President Jeffrey Eagle said, "Don was known for his biting, acerbic humor, and we feel lucky enough to have experienced that firsthand.
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Though Johnny rarely has the show's strongest storylines, he's found a new purpose in season four as he helps acerbic local Stevie (Emily Hampshire) manage the motel they all live in.
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Indeed, the galleries featuring her later work — which seems only to gain layers of refinement, both in terms of style and acerbic, absurdist humor — offer activities that get at this depth.
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Through his sharp, almost acerbic dialogue, Finley has managed to capture the intricate ways that teenage girls interact with each other, without the voyeurism or sexualization typical of a male gaze.
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But when he raps it's a different story: his flows are fast and sharp, acerbic and precise, and he knows exactly what he wants to say and how to say it.
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" The New York Times' acerbic A.O. Scott writes, "It feels less like yet another installment in an endless sequence of apocalyptic merchandising opportunities than like ... what's the word I'm looking for?
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Next is his sister, Kate (Chrissy Metz), who is fighting a serious weight problem with the help of a support group, in which she meets the cheerfully acerbic Toby (Chris Sullivan).
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"I have always enjoyed his quirky style, his acerbic quips about the individuals he met, and the colourful descriptions of the hustle and bustle in his ports of call," he writes.
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Mr. Reid was a tough adversary, an acerbic foe always ready to slug it out with Republicans, and he left behind many detractors when he retired at the end of 2016.
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The Immigration and Cat's Cradle are just two of the kinetic works in this ambitious exhibition; the other intricately mechanized dioramas are equally steeped in cultural history and acerbic social commentary.
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Yet, Deadline has learned that the great part of the discussion yesterday did revolve around the acerbic Brit&aposs behavior and overlording of the Fremantle and Cowell&aposs Syco produced &aposAGT.
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There was also some concern that the President, more at ease with the acerbic rhetoric of divided Washington politics than with words of consolation, would not immediately strike the right tone.
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It's as though there were a fixed amount of warmth and a fixed amount of vinegar available to the brothers McGill, and as Jimmy becomes more acerbic, Chuck becomes less so.
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Originally a Lifetime series before jumping to Netflix for its second season, You is a thriller about Joe Goldberg, a bookseller with an acerbic wit and a propensity for stalking women.
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In the pilot, we get both the dark, acerbic humor that has always secretly been this show's calling card, and the corny, unabashed musical spectacle that made Crazy a niche hit.
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Before starting her musical career, Cardi B worked as a stripper and developed a following on Instagram, where she cut an acerbic figure as she delivered witty observations and plainspoken observations.
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But Netflix's cartoon BoJack Horseman is an acerbic gem, thanks to scripts packed with humor, sharp and empathetic vocal performances, and some of the best and weirdest animation you'll see on television.
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He follows acerbic British comedian Ricky Gervais, who took the reins for the fourth time earlier this year, and comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler who did the honors from 2013-2015.
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Hundeyin has an acerbic sense of humor honed by years of watching "South Park," and he thought that "The Other News" should take a similarly no-holds-barred approach to Nigerian culture.
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As with "Bitters," the book is ideally timed: Many Americans in the last few years have discovered the bracing pleasures of drinks like Campari, Aperol, Cynar and even the acerbic Fernet Branca.
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Still, it's cathartic to return to these characters, who have always been up front about being total dicks, and to the remarkable timing and acerbic eloquence of the cast and writing team.
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An unwavering and acerbic critic of the government and a disrupter of the reigning national consensus, Mr. Avnery wrote regular opinion pieces for the liberal newspaper Haaretz up until he was hospitalized.
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"I believe there will be 11 Norwegians opposite us tomorrow night," she said the day before the game, in the faintly acerbic tone that managing a French national team seems to engender.
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" In contrast, Cel is a demurely acerbic young woman who speaks in a darkly comic voice about the day-to-day taping of a daytime squawk-fest: "The guest list is mediocre.
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Like the acerbic John Quincy Adams, the antislavery former president who represented Massachusetts in the House, Giddings intentionally goaded Southerners to violence in order to expose the barbarism of the slave power.
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" Another example came last year when the racial-brotherhood bromides of "Green Book" likewise triumphed over the beautiful-but-distressing childhood elegy, "Roma," and a far more acerbic race-based melodrama, "BlackKkKlansman.
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You had to wonder what last year's host, the vitriolic Ricky Gervais, might have done, or Mr. Fallon's other predecessors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who made acerbic jokes in good fun.
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His big minus is that he's got a long history as an acerbic businessman who said some things to female employees we would now consider deeply, deeply offensive — and may have then.
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The publication of the call, in which the presidents made critical comments about German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, has drawn acerbic comments from other Russian officials and lawmakers.
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She has an easy stylishness that inspires envy in her female colleagues, and a barking laugh that she unleashes generously—a disarming quality in someone with such an acerbic sense of humor.
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Visitors familiar with his signature acerbic and satirical tone and the large scale, brightly colored figure paintings of his later career may experience shock upon viewing his earlier and more subtle compositions.
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"Downton Abbey" fans might remember her as Mabel Lane Fox, the drolly acerbic heiress who vied with Lady Mary for the attentions of the less-sexy-than-Matthew-Crawley aristocrat Lord Gillingham.
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Imagine if an art critic was writing a devastating and acerbic critique of an artist's paintings, and that same art critic needed to illustrate her argument with images of the artist's paintings.
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Part of Trump's strategy was to recognize that there were enough voters who like a tough, acerbic and often nasty candidate to chart a narrow path to the highest office in the land.
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Roseanne Barr's acerbic and biting humor was candid, the Conners didn't try to impress or preach from a moral high ground, and the real-life problems faced by the characters were incredibly relatable.
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I find myself constantly drawn to Baumbach's brand of acerbic, negative-leaning modern comedy, from the millennial angst of Frances Ha and Mistress America to the anti-everything lamentations of While We're Young.
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Nassif seems less a knotty type than Lindsay, yet it's his record that packs the kind of acerbic, off-kilter Tom Zé-Elza Soares buzz that delivers samba and its children from suave.
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Ida Kitaeva Laurel (Nina Arianda) is a Russian starlet with an acerbic tongue and a gleefully sarcastic manner; Lucille Hardy (Shirley Henderson) is her perfect foil, fretting over and doting on her husband.
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But this special, taking place in 1991, right after the end of It's Garry Shandling's Show and before The Larry Sanders Show contains some of the comic's most acerbic and self-skewering jokes.
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And Mr. McHale's last two hosting gigs, the ESPY Awards in 2015 and the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2014, were notable for their acerbic tone and close-to-the-bone zingers.
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Belzer left the series in 2013 after 21 years of playing the character, who first appeared on Homicide: Life on the Street and quickly became a fan favorite for his acerbic wit. Det.
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Leon G. Cooperman, the acerbic 203-year-old founder of the hedge fund Omega Partners, made news in September when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged him and his firm with insider trading.
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While Chris Rock has come under pressure from some black celebrities to step down as Oscars host, the acerbic black comedian may feel he can do more good by remaining in the game.
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"Ideas have consequences" has been a conservative battle cry since 1948, when the acerbic anti-modernist Richard M. Weaver published a book-length polemic by that title bemoaning the decline of universal truth.
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Or the acerbic criticism that Gordon Brown, a former British prime minister and finance minister, directed at former United Kingdom central bank officials at last week's conference for their commenting on fiscal policy.
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Sarah Butcher of eFinancialcareers had a more acerbic take: For a firm which likes to clear out its bottom 5 percent of performers annually, Goldman seemed strangely wedded to its underperforming senior partners.
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They're in the generally engaging performances, including warm and sharply funny work from Abigail Kubeka as Queen's acerbic grandmother and Enhle Mlotshwa as the patient girlfriend of a man hung up on Queen.
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The combination of Wolf's thick Midwestern accent and acerbic asides can make watching her comedy something of a jarring experience — a fact she, looking out at her audience with a giant grin, clearly relishes.
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The Republican president, known for his acerbic insults on Twitter, was hitting back at Dimon for saying on Wednesday that he was smarter than Trump and could beat him in a White House race.
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In season three, FXX's acerbic romantic comedy turned over an entire half-hour to its most put-upon character, veteran Edgar (Desmin Borges), who suffers from PTSD — not that his friends noticed or cared.
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"My more acerbic friends on both sides of the aisle consider it a Hobson's choice," he said, referring to a situation where it seems there's free choice but in reality there's no good alternative.
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I knew I'd be ready for that patented acerbic Sundance quirk later on, but I opted for The Worker's Cup, a documentary about the migrant workers building the stadiums for Qatar's 2022 World Cup.
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"The picture of Russia looks tragic, where you see how Moscow drains up all resources as into a funnel," said Mr. Radya, whose works are huge acerbic slogans, installed or painted on city roofs.
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" Julia is mooning over his physicality here, yet James is also a square — a man so unfeasibly sane, patient and anodyne that Iris, the acerbic mother of Julia's dead husband, wants to "smack him.
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This comedian has made name for himself as a correspondent on "The Daily Show," where he lends his acerbic brand of humor to criticisms of Fox News and trends reserved for the ultra wealthy.
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Tompkins was more acerbic and domineering than Chouinard, who has always had a Zen calm about him, but they were both opinionated, talented, and tough, and did not easily suffer fools—a formidable duo.
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But if Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner's acerbic cynicism resonates with you, the show is a laugh-out-loud cringey binge, dismantling romantic views of New York and even of the elusive idea of success.
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But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress is now bringing Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor.
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Acerbic and professional, Spicer, a Navy Reserve commander, has been openly critical of media coverage of Republican candidates and the president-elect, but insists the future U.S. leader has a high regard for press freedom.
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You have your deep dish pizza in Chicago, and then you have your thin crust in New York, and folks like to manufacture these really acerbic pizza wars between the thick crust and the thin.
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"Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were John and Paul's odes to Liverpudlian childhood: one an acerbic song of estrangement with a flute-like Mellotron, the other a collage of suburbia set to French horns.
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The studios also found themselves vying for respect from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, who had emerged as one of the first real stars of web video criticism thanks to his acerbic video series for The Escapist.
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Had Mitford a grave to rise from (she hasn't; her ashes were scattered at sea), she might be pleased by some of the changes slowly shaking the industry, if acerbic about some of their aesthetics.
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Following strong statements from the Chinese foreign ministry condemning Wednesday's nuclear test and denying any prior knowledge of North Korea's plans, state-owned media published critical editorials replete with acerbic advice for the reclusive state.
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" There are amorously acerbic pleas to sugar daddies and road dogs, earnest references to Cali churches and Springsteen, and biting opening lines like, "Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn's my mother / Jesus is my bestest friend.
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Dealing with his own constant physical pain, he uses a cane that seems to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor while his unconventional thinking and flawless instincts have afforded him a great deal of respect.
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His book starts with dining habits in earlier eras and goes on to provide often acerbic commentary on the scene of his time, when Paris was considered to be the center of the culinary world.
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But it's acerbic, smart, pleasingly, shamelessly weird and set, in part, at a hotel for single people who are given 45 days to find love among the other guests or be turned into an animal.
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He was famous for his enigmatic persona and acerbic wit, and for building a broader audience for Chanel's distinctive products — like its No. 5 perfume, black bouclé jackets, two-tone ballet pumps and quilted handbags.
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"Barrage" could just as well describe the onslaught of acerbic wit and wiseguy Queens attitude that is the show's content, a funny, improvised session that bounces around familiar topics, from music to the New York Mets.
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There was Julia Stiles' acerbic Kat Stratford in 290 Things I Hate About You in 07, then the rule-breaking best friends played by Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley in Bend It Like Beckham in 228.
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Where to Stream It: Amazon Prime EVERETT COLLECTION Election (1999) For proof that all politics is local, one need look no further than Alexander Payne's adaptation of Tom Perrotta's acerbic 1998 novel of the same name.
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Steinfeld, who first came to fame after her performance in True Grit, has expanded her resume to include roles in blockbuster films like Ender's Game and 2016's deliciously acerbic teen drama, The Edge Of Seventeen.
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If you enjoyed the dark humour and acerbic one-liners from The End of the F***ing World (TEOTFW), then we have some splendid news for you: it's going to be back for a second season.
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And as such, while his older brother might make more headlines while his sister beams her radio show out around the world, his significance as the genre's most acerbic and innovative player should not be underestimated.
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A cooling evergreen moat of pine ice surrounds an earthy rye pudding that's enriched with brown butter; pears fried in honey are splayed out on top, and some acerbic cranberries prevent the whole thing from cloying.
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Ms. Huxtable's current show, "A Split During Laughter at the Rally," at Reena Spaulings on the Lower East Side, reverses that dynamic: Rather than her body, Ms. Huxtable's voice — funny, acerbic, malicious even — is on display.
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Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who is chairman of the subcommittee on the Coast Guard and maritime transportation, was even more acerbic, calling the proposal "an insult" that would put the nation's security at risk.
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William Powhida, one of our most trenchant and acerbic political artists, used to work regularly as an art critic — and basically still does, in a continuing series of brilliant text drawings produced over the past decade.
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But with the inauguration less than a week away, there is a growing realization in European capitals that Mr. Trump's acerbic criticism of NATO and the European Union was not just an attempt to win votes.
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I'm not in the White House to read about myself, and I pray for those people because I have no idea what could possibly make people so negative and acerbic to a stranger because we disagree.
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But then the song changes for a moment: "You're spring to me, all things to me," she sings, and then lets out a sigh, or maybe even a grunt, that is rueful and a little acerbic.
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Formed in the wake of the 1970 Kent State massacre, Devo arrived with an acerbic wit, sharp aesthetic, and a philosophy called "devolution," a charged socio-political concept that posited mankind as regressing, rather than evolving.
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Cruz also had a strong news cycle after the attacks in Brussels, calling for a need to "patrol" Muslim neighborhoods – a statement that resonated with voters who supported Trump's similarly acerbic statement about banning Muslims immigration.
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But the real draw here is the cast, who deliver their lines with acerbic prowess and deadpan humor, all while never letting us forget that there's something very serious at the core of all this sports drama.
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Robinson, the former leader of the English Defense League known for his acerbic criticism of Islam, reportedly pleaded guilty to breaching the terms of a previously suspended sentence from 2017 when he reported on a similar case.
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Whatever you may think or ever thought of CM Punk, the acerbic ex-WWE champion and subject of a lawsuit by one of WWE's doctors, his career trajectory was never supposed to end where it is now.
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In its "home country," Friends initially presented a sanitized, glitzy, and strongly Caucasian reflection of New York City—a cuddlier alternative, perhaps, to fellow NBC juggernaut Seinfeld's acerbic (and similarly Caucasian) perspective on Manhattan's hustle-and-bustle.
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Clinton's opponent is Mr. Trump, a candidate with a combative alpha-male style who has already attacked her husband's sexual history, mocked women's looks and engaged in acerbic feuds with women from Rosie O'Donnell to Megyn Kelly.
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Johnson is a departure from the rueful, acerbic quipsters she has perfected onstage (in "Other Desert Cities" and "The Assembled Parties," for which she won Tonys), and Ms. Light brings a vibrant, thirsty eroticism to the part.
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A diminutive man — he was 5-foot-5 — with a shrewd business sense, the elder Mr. Nederlander was known for a tough-minded resistance to the demands of actors, producers and unions, and for an acerbic wit.
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An early episode of the acerbic sitcom You're the Worst, which follows the misadventures of four thirtysomethings living on the east side of Los Angeles, begins with a close-up of a mimosa in a champagne flute.
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The separatist movement, like the Umbrella Movement, is a reaction not only to Beijing's high-handed denial of genuine political reform in Hong Kong, but also to C.Y. Leung's acerbic manner and in-your-face governance style.
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Barbara's acerbic and delusional voice-over sets the tone, at times describing events in real time, and a score from Philip Glass helps build and release tension as things play out not quite as you might expect.
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One client went so far as to watch every episode of Seinfeld in an effort to teach herself how to understand sarcasm and the nuances of acerbic humor that she struggled to pick up in real life.
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A few years ago, she became an uproarious force on Instagram for her frank sexual talk and her comically acerbic wit, and her casually wise and ground-level relatable videos became part of the app's lingua franca.
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His sharply black and white prints are his best known works, for their striking compositions and rich, sometimes sinister narratives: domestic interiors occupied by uneasy couples; acerbic depictions of the haute bourgeois and scenes of police brutality.
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Late in his career, Altman entered a gentler phase, losing a lot of the satirical bite and acerbic cynicism of his earlier movies and replacing them with a genuine affection for watching talented actors do their work.
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Now you have a sense of what it's like to watch The Favourite, the latest acerbic confection from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, writer/director of movies like The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Dogtooth.
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This is especially the case in those passages where, hewing close to Merlo's point of view, he tries to describe Williams's creative process, and stoops to a level of prose from which his acerbic protagonist would recoil.
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They are, in addition to Bush's eldest son, Alan Simpson, the former senator and acerbic wit from Wyoming; Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who also gave a eulogy for Ronald Reagan; and presidential historian Jon Meacham.
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One of Mr Zingales's teachers encouraged his pupils to bring daily papers to school, except for Il Giornale, a conservative daily founded by Indro Montanelli, one of Italy's most brilliant journalists—and an acerbic critic of the left.
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But she has watched Katherine's comedy for years, and is certain that if she put a bit of herself into it, infusing some of her acerbic wit and her own views into her monologue, the show would improve.
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Sorry to take such a sarcastic and acerbic tone, but perhaps it's necessary to snap everyone out of the delusion that the government knows what best for us and our reproductive and everything other kind of our health.
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Sharp-witted and acerbic, Judge Williams can be as quick to crack jokes from the bench as he can be to admonish the individuals in front of him for acting outside the neatly drawn lines of his expectations.
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Ms. Rousseff's lawyer, José Eduardo Cardozo, said he was stunned that her opponents had dragged Ms. Rousseff's family into the acerbic debate, pointing out that Ms. Rousseff was never accused of embezzling public funds to benefit her family.
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Smart and acerbic, he stood next to me on the subway ride back from a museum; later that night, we snuck away, took a long walk around a lake, and watched the sun come up over the water.
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As Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, noted in her acerbic questioning of Mr. Stumpf at a Banking Committee hearing in September, he bragged in 2014 that Wells Fargo customers had an average of 6.17 accounts per household.
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That acerbic style helped Gutiérrez become a leading Democratic voice on all things immigration, and he boasts of helping turn the issue into one of the party's core social principles, on par with health care and gay rights.
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The real surprise, however, is that "Downhill," starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who also has a producer credit), is respectful enough of the source material to avoid cheap laughs and maintain the original tone of acerbic honesty.
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Even if he sits on the Supreme Court and authors a hundred acerbic opinions in the style of his judicial hero Antonin Scalia; even if — especially if — he provides one of the decisive votes to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress brought Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies — which just won the Golden Globe — to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor.
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The task force was established, in the acerbic words of veteran golf writer Dan Jenkins, to identify how the U.S. could "compete better over the next 20 years without sinking more putts and shooting lower scores than the Europeans".
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After a closing flurry of episodes that consciously leaned into current events, the show closed at its most cynical and acerbic in an effort to trump them, zeroing in on its protagonist's utter ruthlessness in the pursuit of power.
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But hockey's most prominent spokesman, the 85-year-old television commentator and former coach Don Cherry, has a history of making acerbic comments about foreign-born players, and even French Canadians, on the benches of that overwhelming white sport.
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For some, the appeal of the latter will likely be enough, with Jake Gyllenhaal leading a top-notch cast, sinking his teeth into a juicy role as an acerbic art critic with the power to make or break talent.
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Because it was somehow clearer to those watching the event on TV that Wilmore's acerbic jibes against pundits and politicians were aimed beyond the glitterati and toward those who have come to expect such corrosive wit on cable comedy shows.
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Bob Dole, the acerbic former presidential candidate who has made no effort to hide his hatred of Cruz, has taken the RINO-bashing game to its logical conclusion and declared that Cruz "is a RINO—he's a Republican In Name Only."
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Shanahan did not directly name China when making accusations of "actors" destabilizing the region, but went on to say the United States would not ignore Chinese behavior, the latest in the exchange of acerbic remarks between the world's two biggest economies.
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And starting the day before Baby arrives, you'll be able to watch the first two installments to gear up for whatever horrifying exploits the acerbic Bridget (Renée Zellweger) and her suitors (Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey) get up to next.
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Chain-smoking her way around New York City's East Village as she tries to solve the mystery of why she keeps dying and waking up at her own birthday party, Lyonne's Nadia was a gruff, acerbic, and sex-fueled loner.
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The unexpected death of a divisive public figure during an acerbic presidential campaign set off conspiracy theories and demands from political commentators that a pathologist perform an autopsy before Justice Scalia's burial on Saturday to prove no foul play was involved.
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On Thursday the comedian sent a message to his email list elaborating on his motivations and plans for the series, which, based on the first episode, is a poignant but acerbic story about an argumentative family who owns a Brooklyn bar.
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Say, the hypocritical fact of Trump's own acerbic behavior, or the idea that "civility" is the least of our worries at a time when the U.S. government has separated migrant families at the border with no plans for reuniting them.
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And the death of that judge, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, had much narrower political and legal repercussions than the surprise demise of Antonin Scalia, the court's longest-serving justice and most acerbic conservative, who has died in his sleep, promises to.
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The center was founded after members of group called Collaborative Projects broke into an empty city-owned storefront on Delancey Street in late 1979 and installed the so-called Real Estate Show, which took an acerbic view of that industry.
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There wasn't one love song in the lineup, and the closest thing to comedy was a ditty about Bach and Dante prostituting themselves "under the green pepper trees," Brecht's acerbic commentary on European talent chewed up by the movie industry.
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Jonny Langford and Deano Schlabowske are so fervently acerbic that it doesn't matter much that the full lyrics of "Lucky Fool" and "Going Down in History" don't deliver on their titles the way "Building Our Own Prison" and "DIYBYOB" do.
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In that moment, I would have very much liked to have sat her down to learn something from the funny and acerbic "Penguin Problems," but my daughter has now graduated beyond taking lessons, as the little penguin does, from cartoon walruses.
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It's an often moving look into an extraordinary life, but it's also a startling glimpse into a sharply opinionated but somehow less polarized political scene from Molly's time, and an example of how acerbic commentary needn't crowd out real conversation.
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A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2019 With the collapse of the Soviet Union later that year, he returned to the air on newly established Russian television channels, including ORT, where he became known as an acerbic commentator.
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It's unclear what, exactly, is going on here, but it sure looks like an acerbic piss-take on how easy it is these days to create a brand new virtual currency and drum up some fleeting value before cashing out.
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Some Democrats have suggested the party should hew closely to a strategy focused on health care and economic issues, but Mr. Sanders appears primed to attack the president, using acerbic language in recent months to denounce him and his policies.
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Miles, who has narrated works by Roxane Gay, bell hooks and N. K. Jemisin, excels at a technically perfect Standard American dialect but interjects just enough slightly sarcastic pauses and subtly acerbic inflections to emphasize the true meaning of the text.
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In 1974, Vera Stravinsky gave Mr. Wuorinen permission to write a piece based on incomplete sketches by her husband, Igor; the result, "A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky," is a tautly compelling masterwork with an acerbic but moving lament at its center.
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A TV series would be the perfect way to get acquainted with Mia's eclectic world (New York, not San Francisco), friends like violin virtuoso Boris Pelkowski or Tina Hakim Baba and an acerbic royal grandma who drinks sidecars and terrifies poodles.
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The story involves the effect, direct and indirect, that a young woman (Emily Browning) has on a group of friends and strangers, including two sets of sisters (Lily Rabe, Analeigh Tipton, Chloë Sevigny and a hilariously acerbic Mary-Louise Parker).
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That's the setting for Don Nguyen's terrific mini-comedy "Race Day," in which Maddie (a delightfully acerbic Dominique Brillon) and Leah (Jo Mei) come to watch their younger sister, Kara, lead her perennially disastrous team to, surely, yet another humiliation.
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Steadman will be familiar to fans of "Downton Abbey" — she is the actress who played Mabel Lane Fox, the acerbic heiress who vied with Lady Mary for the attentions of Lord Gillingham — but she's even better at writing than acting.
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Between Two Ferns is known for its acerbic and irreverent interviews with celebrities ranging from Brad Pitt to Barack Obama, but now, this bitesize talk show is getting the feature film treatment, with the appropriate number of celebrity cameos to match.
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"You have people who care about you, who love you and who will do anything at all to protect you," Trump said, in remarks that were touching in part because they were such a departure from his normal acerbic tone.
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But in time it would become clear that her true soulmate was Josh's acerbic, sarcastic best friend Greg, and as soon as Rebecca realized as much, all of her problems would be solved and she could be happy with Greg.
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"If it's a Friday night, I'll sit there with Bill Maher on, who gets on my nerves as well, and I'm going to be probably more poignant and acerbic when I post things if I hadn't had a drink or two," Fox says.
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Jimmy Fallon hosts Sunday's three-hour spectacle, broadcast live on NBC television, in what is seen as a safer choice after seven years in the hands of acerbic Briton Ricky Gervais and the zinger-prone duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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Silicon Valley was the right target for the acerbic humor of Watch Dogs 2, but this series now has lots of potential in terms of seeking out future targets, provided it can keep the same balance of quality open-world gameplay and wit.
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But the bigger slight for the Google employees — conveyed in the memes and confirmed by multiple sources — is what they see as an acerbic corporate culture that Fadell, a former Apple executive, has instilled at Nest — one viewed as antithetical to Google's.
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The decision to call this the "Friendship Tour" wasn't a case of Thou exercising their typically acerbic wit, it was a fully earnest way to signal their joy that they'd soon be traversing the country with over a dozen of their best friends.
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Peng is the acerbic boxing trainer in the striped T-shirt who chides Van Damme for wishing to fight the bad guy Thai champ, Tong Po. Though some foreigners were already living and fighting out of the gym, the film brought even more.
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" Or as Erin Doherty, who gives a memorably acerbic portrayal of the young Princess Anne, remarked on-set between takes: "After a while you have to drop your thoughts about who they are — you have to accept we are Peter Morgan's royal family.
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Harena, even then, was extraordinarily pretty, with fawn-colored hair and skin, long spindly legs, acerbic breasts, and a beauty mark beside an arched nose that looked as if it belonged on an ancient marble statue in a museum thousands of miles away.
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If season three had succeeded thanks to an acidic, acerbic take on politics, season four seemed at times to shy away from that sort of material, in favor of broad pop culture parodies that essentially every other sketch show had already tried.
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Mr. Nicholls deals with the books' reliance on interior monologue and description by putting snippets of Mr. St. Aubyn's prose into the characters' mouths as conventional dialogue, sometimes to salvage an acerbic bon mot but often just to get in background information.
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The acerbic comic romp set in small-town America is set to be one of the highlights of the competition in Cannes, alongside Quentin Tarantino's hotly anticipated return to the Croisette with an ode to Hollywood based on his memories of the industry.
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Agents of the Bad Place, led by Michael's vengeful but acerbic former boss Shawn (Marc Evan Jackson), are trying to stymie the protagonists' experiment at every turn, but the show hints at a possible compromise that would be in everyone's best interests.
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He was also what Christopher Buckley, William's son, called a Pied Piper for The Dartmouth Review, the acerbic, decidedly conservative, often inflammatory journal (not affiliated with the university) founded in Professor Hart's living room in 22004 by four students, including his son, Ben.
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Single mothers are often required to be superheroes (on television and in reality), but Better Things does an even more valuable job by bringing its acerbic heroine down to earth, mining comedy gold from the mundanities of parenting and being a sporadically employed actor.
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She had more pressing matters to attend to, like filing assignments for her religious studies program; writing acerbic blog-style posts on the Russian clone of Facebook, called vKontakte; participating in various feminist groups online; and attempting to launch a sciencey-print T-shirt business.
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The Tesla CEO, who has a known affinity for the acerbic, dimension-twisting show, also revealed on Sunday in the same tweet that, like the Model 3 launch in July, this one will be live streamed on Thursday, November 16, starting at 8 PM PST.
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Yet last week, people were gleefully sharing the darkly humorous headlines and stories published by the women's satire site Reductress, guffawing at its acerbic coverage of the extreme anti-choice laws coming out of Georgia, Ohio, and Alabama to tens of thousands of retweets.
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The movie's tone does have at least a consistent tinge of Mr. Smigel's acerbic perspective — an early scene shows a couple of kids watching the classic film "The Grapes of Wrath" on TV with the sound off while their offscreen parents scream at each other.
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Fortunately, Doubleday had more courage and released the complete essay as a book, "Chicago: City on the Make," a slim classic that combines poetry, personal recollections and acerbic political commentary in ways that remind a reader today of both Walt Whitman and Tom Wolfe.
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Directed by former stuntman and John Wick co-director David Leitch, Deadpool 2 is sharp fun, a delirious exhibition for the bawdy, acerbic humor of Ryan Reynolds — who co-wrote this sequel in addition to starring in it — fused with blistering, inventive action sequences.
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But Uchis' music is about much more than setting a mood or starting a party (though it's capable of doing both): Underneath the reverb and nostalgic arrangements, she sings acerbic lyrics that recall the plain-spoken melancholy of Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Rey.
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Humor almost always found a place in his plays, sometimes expressed in vaudeville style, but behind the laughter lay shrewd, often acerbic, sometimes discomforting observations: of the family, of marriage, of human foible, of Britain's colonial past, and of the state of Britain itself.
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But his insistence that Iran is the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East, as well as his acerbic criticism of the Obama administration's initial efforts to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, made him an attractive choice for the incoming president.
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This monthly comedy show, which promises "sharp, acerbic, self-effacing" comedy that doesn't "preach to the converted," is hosted by the actor and presenter John Fugelsang, the writer and former "Mystery Science Theater 3000" host Frank Conniff, and the comedian and writer David Feldman.
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There could be no better guide to the murky labyrinth that has brought us here than "The Politics of Pain," by Fintan O'Toole, a quizzical, acerbic Irishman who bears a passing physical resemblance to Samuel Beckett and who deploys more than a little of Beckett's frosty irony.
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Irish, with help from Linda, Cam and other regulars (including the endearingly acerbic hacker Simone, played by Kate Atkinson), unravels a byzantine case on several continents while helping out at the track and looking after a surly new acquaintance who threatens to become a surrogate daughter.
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NEWARK — The low-profile governor's race in New Jersey shed its sleepy veneer on Tuesday night as the first general election debate quickly descended into an hourlong rumpus that was both acerbic and wonkish with the two candidates repeatedly lacing into each other's positions and personal background.
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The stuttering romance between acerbic addict Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) and aggressively Midwestern-sweet Gus (co-creator Paul Rust) wandered around in excruciating real time, and was often myopic enough that even I — an LA asshole who sucked at love — couldn't find much of anything to relate to.
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But it's Aminé's acerbic wit that steals the spotlight and makes him an ever-engaging frontman, as he rewards devoted listeners with barbs about his newfound fame that are both refreshing and funny ("White girls love me like my first name Coachella," on "Yellow," is particularly pointed).
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One of the last he read was "Asymmetry," by Lisa Halliday, a book about a young woman who has a romance with an aging novelist who bears an unmistakable resemblance to Mr. Roth — funny, kind, acerbic, passionate, immensely well-read, a devotee of Zabar's and old movies.
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Mr. Newman, 73, first rose to prominence in the early '70s with albums including "12 Songs" and "Sail Away," introducing a new sense of acerbic comedy and commentary to pop by writing in the voices of characters like a slave trader or an innocent at an orgy.
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Cinema's reigning bard of curmudgeonly misfits and outsider artists, Mr. Zwigoff made his mark in documentaries with "Louie Bluie" (Saturday) and "Crumb" (Sunday) and kept his acerbic voice intact when he moved into fiction features with "Ghost World" (Friday), an adaptation of the cartoonist Daniel Clowes's work.
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Money constraints also, praise be, ruled out endless special-effects sequences, Mr. Miller said, allowing for greater emphasis on Deadpool's character and relationships — with his bartender buddy; his acerbic landlady; and the love of his life, Vanessa, a smart-aleck sex worker played by Morena Baccarin.
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" In fact, lots of her favorite personal writing by authors like Dodie Bellamy, Marie Calloway, and Kathy Acker "is successful precisely because it can be acerbic or punitive towards the people in the writer's life who are depicted, often men or authority figures who have wronged them.
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The audience numbered about a hundred people, who were given the signal to clap when the show returned from commercial break, or when one of the pro-Kremlin guests made a particularly acerbic point at the expense of one of the show's villains—in this case, me.
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Foer's devastating, emotional, acerbic piece is really a must-read for anyone looking to zero in on the roots and extent of Trump's misogyny— and how it helps explain the presumptive Republican nominee: There's one ideology that [Trump] does hold with sincerity and practices with unwavering fervor: misogyny.
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Old clips recalled how Fox television took a chance in 2002 on unknown Britons Cowell and series creator Simon Fuller and a format that turned atrocious auditions into mass entertainment, brought an acerbic tone to critiques of amateurs, and handed TV audiences the power to choose the winner.
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It was the latest exchange of acerbic comments between the two sides as their ties come under increasing strain due to a bitter trade war, U.S. support for Taiwan and China's muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.
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For a few years, in the nineteen-nineties, he taught psychology at Harvard; by the time he published "Maps of Meaning," in 1999, he was back in Canada—teaching at the University of Toronto, working as a clinical psychologist, and building a reputation, on television, as an acerbic pundit.
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By helping to push out Mr. Priebus and Stephen K. Bannon, the president's chief strategist and acerbic nationalist infighter, they said, Mr. Kushner helped stabilize the White House, allowing him to focus on his own projects rather than feeling compelled to weigh in on so many different issues.
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This acerbic little comedy has only aired three episodes so far, but it's already got the confidence of a much more established show, flying out the gate with pointed gags and fully formed characters that unapologetically tear down whatever wholesome memories you might have of your elementary school teachers.
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Lucy, a middle-class Manhattanite attending an elite private school, has battled none of the Nolan family's hardships, nor is she plagued by the acerbic ennui that Holden Caulfield gave voice to in "The Catcher in the Rye," but comparisons to both classic New York bildungsromans nonetheless seem inevitable.
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For all his accomplishments in office, the World War Two combat veteran may be best known for his folksy language and acerbic remarks, as well as for serving 36 years as his state's "junior senator" behind Strom Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in history who retired at age 100.
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Created over the course of two years by Shushko and a small team of animators, the comic artist's 13-minute short film debut has the look of an early 2000s Disney movie (think Atlantis or Treasure Planet), but with a heaping helping of grotesquery and acerbic Russian wit.
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After three mostly hilarious years of co-hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, the Globes are returning to ringleader Ricky Gervais, the acerbic British comedian who hosted the show from 2010-12 -- and whose barbed jokes about religion or bombs like Johnny Depp's "The Tourist" have sometimes rankled his targets.
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In addition to being a tough, opinionated, acerbic, visionary artist, whom I believe still has not quite gotten his due, Brown was a collector of folk art, handmade objects both functional and not, and the work of self-taught artists, such as Lee Godie, Joseph Yoakum, Henry Darger, and Aldo Piacenza.
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Cut from the cloth of Discharge, Framtid, and Nausea, as well as influential homegrown miscreants like Tampere SS, Appendix, Mellakka, and Kaaos (from whom Kohti Tuhoa lifted their band name), the quartet delivers an acerbic old-school punch with enough of an angular edge to keep things sounding violently fresh.
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A meticulous rendering of a power plant's back end, it's not the most appealing of scenes, though its gradient blue sky, slashed by crisscrossing power lines, makes for an acerbic commentary on the American landscape and our abuse of it for the convenience of devices like the laptop I'm typing on.
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This band of sisters to Jordan's sororal brother is made up of the brashly self-centered Kiki (entertainingly played by Sas Goldberg, in the style of Megan Mullally's acerbic socialite in "Will & Grace"); the moody Vanessa (Rebecca Naomi Jones); and Jordan's alter ego and former college roommate, Laura (Lindsay Mendez).
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Enter Bachelorette contestant Tyler C., whose hilariously awkward Flashdance audition tape gave us a taste of just what a goofball he is way back when, but whose chiseled good looks and slow drawl have sometimes distracted from his acerbic wit and great sense of humor (Tyler C. is a model, after all).
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He starred in Parts Unknown and No Reservations, he got Barack Obama to slurp noodles with him in Vietnam, and never failed to let his 7.5 million Twitter followers see him unleash his characteristically acerbic tongue on people — usually ones who held a lot of power — who he thought had screwed up.
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But in many ways, the acerbic and bitterly divisive election of 22011 represented a final wrenching departure from the more courtly, old-fashioned politics practiced by George H.W. Bush, who until late in his life would pen handwritten notes to friends, former political allies and foes and even reporters who covered his presidency.
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The social issues the shows tackled (or not) at the time are also discussed, particularly in regards to WB network concerns: A staff member reveals that the part of Cordelia, Buffy's acerbic rich pal, was originally meant for a black actress, but spine-free executive worries about interracial relationships thwarted the casting intention.
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"Paul Griffiths's style can be quite acerbic and vehement, though I have found it to be fueled by a genuine concern with the subject matter at hand, rather than ad hominem, as some have alleged," Dr. Pfau said, adding that he had always found him to be a "generous and formidably thoughtful" colleague.
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On Comedy Last week, Lee Camp, an acerbic left-wing comic, dedicated six minutes of his topical TV show, "Redacted Tonight," to the discredited conspiracy theory that it wasn't Russian hackers who leaked emails during the presidential election but Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staff member killed in a botched robbery.
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Ruchir Sharma VARANASI, India — India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, is a mesmerizing orator, in the way of a talk-show host with an acerbic tongue, and this month a campaign crowd of more than 50,000 showed up in Deoria, a hardscrabble town in the state of Uttar Pradesh, to hear his story.
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As played by series co-creator Rachel Bloom, heroine Rebecca Bunch was a mess, a toxic wreck of a human being who was actively stalking someone — but the show surrounding her was so sparkling, so simultaneously joyous and acerbic, that it was nearly impossible not to love it, and to love Rebecca too.
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Fan videos can be hit or miss, but Chong's four-minute clip (embedded above) is unusually slick; not only did he combine dialogue from both shows so that it flows in a believable way, but his original Bob's Burgers-style animations of Archer's acerbic characters look right at home in Bob's restaurant.
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Steven Rogers' script is witty and startling, full of fourth-wall-breaking gags and acknowledgements that this story comes from self-serving, contradictory interviews from figures like Harding's mother (played with acerbic brilliance by Allison Janney) and abusive ex-husband (Sebastian Stan, looking weedy and dorky and miles off his work as Marvel's Winter Soldier).
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"You can watch the exchange below:The maverick director is as well known for his passion for cinema as he is for his acerbic comments, from his infamous "I'm shutting your butt down" interview with the UK's Channel 4 in 2013 to a recent press conference where he bluntly told a reporter, "I reject your hypothesis.
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Slow to start, "It's Great to Be Alive" profits from the presence of the acerbic character actress Edna May Oliver, in a role that requires her to be variously the world's greatest scientist (at one point introducing a short-lived "synthetic man") and the diplomat presiding over a world congress to decide Carlos's fate.
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The acerbic and urgent tenor of the exchanges reflected the panicked state of a Republican field determined to halt Mr. Trump, whose crudely freewheeling style, abundant self-assuredness and durable popularity have produced three consecutive early-state victories that threaten to put the nomination out of reach for his two biggest rivals, Mr. Rubio and Mr. Cruz.
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But through her production company Pacific Standard, the actress brought Liane Moriarty's female-driven novel Big Little Lies — which just won the Emmy for outstanding limited series — to HBO as a seven-part whodunit drama with a healthy dose of acerbic humor Watch the full episode of People & Entertainment Weekly Red Carpet Live, streaming now on PeopleTV.
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On the other side of depression, there's anger, and seeing a seething Dunst in Headland's acerbic debut film, 2012's Bachelorette, feels emblematic of what it's like to be in your early thirties and part of a generation set up to be disappointed by the impossibility of achieving the personal and professional stability our boomer parents enjoyed.
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Chris Geere isn't actually the Worst person – he just plays one on TV. Geere, 35, made a name for himself as the acerbic British writer who does his best to reject modern romance in You're the Worst, and with season 3 of the hit FX show now underway, the English actor is quickly earning his spot in Hollywood.
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And while the characteristically acerbic writing includes witty barbs and observations -- from those sporting MAGA hats to latte-sipping liberals -- the finer points are lost in lurid imagery and cheap scares, masquerading as smart TV. "Horror Story" regulars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters again anchor the show, which opens with 90 seconds of news footage building toward election night.
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" That remark brought a suspension from his job at Standard Bank and an acerbic rejoinder from its chief executive, Sim Tshabalala, that "entitled is often a key word in racist thinking" — either by whites accusing blacks of claiming undeserved privilege, or by blacks arguing that "white people are not entitled to be full citizens because they are 'all racists.
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Set poolside, this 80-minute evening is essentially an audience with Gerry, who suffers from a serious case of ADHD, throws back cocktails as if they were cleansing juices, possesses a voluminous knowledge of pop culture (who is Shannon Elizabeth, anyway?), wields an acerbic wit that could flay you at 50 paces and has no off button.
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One of them was Goldberg, who had had an eventful year: his response to Decius was only one in a series of acerbic essays that had established him as a leading light of the #NeverTrump movement, a group of normally reliable partisans who said they could imagine voting for just about any Republican candidate—except one.
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Bee, the acerbic host of TBS's Full Frontal, had her event staff wear shirts that said "Free Press," donated $200,000 in proceeds from the evening to the Committee to Protect Journalists, and gave shoutouts to the staff of small local newspapers like the Flint Journal, which broke the story of the Michigan city's lead-polluted water.
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I first came to Margery Sharp, a British author who lived from 1905 to 1991, through her adventurous mice, Nils and Bernard and Miss Bianca, but for decades now, I have been browsing happily in her brilliantly acerbic adult fiction — social comedies that track issues of romance, sex, marriage, family, class and artistic endeavor through most of the 20th century.
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Instead of treating it as life-or-death, the film sells it through her acerbic boss (Michaela Watkins) and Harper's own dictation to her friends that they are going to party all night and suck it up in the morning – and what semi-functional adult hasn't shared the experience of balling too hard one night and struggling stoically through work the next morning?
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The oft-acerbic way he communicates with co-workers has drawbacks—Rondo likes to antagonize Pelicans coaches during film sessions with questions seemingly intended to test their intelligence, and has a habit of running sets that aren't even in New Orleans's playbook—but has also turned him into a beloved figure who's appreciated by teammates, both in and away from the game.
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The show, "Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight," caps off several years of festivities, many of which have focused on the artist's centenarian status, including a documentary film, "The 21974 Years Show, Starring Carmen Herrera"; a spring exhibition of recent paintings at the Lisson Gallery in Chelsea; and numerous profiles hailing Ms. Herrera as a living treasure and praising her acerbic wit.
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" 'Acerbic Yet Warm, "Russian Doll" Is More Rewarding Than Any Puzzle-Box Show' [The A.V. Club] Danette Chavez offers a smart take on the show's flawed protagonist, writing: "The all-woman team behind Russian Doll — which, aside from Lyonne, Poehler and Headland, includes director Jamie Babbit — know just how special their lead is, and craft a story both worthy and reflective of her.
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After nearly fifteen years in standup and a starry-eyed move from rural Ohio to LA, Silverman's acerbic wit has caught plenty of attention: her appearance on Comedy Central's short-lived Not Safe with Nikki Glaser certainly opened doors, but not before the release of her debut album Intimate Apparel, which helped her become head writer on Maximum Fun's comedy quiz podcast International Waters.
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Judging by the trailer, the movie has it all: a reference to one of the best Mariah Carey bangers of all time; sensual, close-up shots of decadent food; Wong and Park's signature acerbic senses of humor; cultural jokes that will make Asian-American viewers groan with their resonance (who among us hasn't witnessed an Asian parent's Very Direct Questioning about how much money their crush is making?).
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Although her shift into Davis – an actress who often portrayed almost a high-dudgeon caricature of her larger-than-life self – is not as eerily spot-on as Lange's Crawford (and given Bette's BIGNESS, how could it be?), Sarandon uncorks every bit of acerbic attitude in her arsenal – something we haven't seen from her before to this magnitude –and it works like gangbusters, especially when juxtaposed against the quieter moments that expose, but never try to overly explain, where that venomous veneer was coming from.
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It follows nearly three decades of what C.K. Lal, an acerbic columnist, describes as "history on steroids", during which Nepal's 29m people endured a ten-year armed insurgency that left some 1003,000 dead, a machine-gun rampage by an angry prince who slaughtered nearly the entire royal family, a revolving door of governments under 25 different prime ministers, including spells of arch-conservative dictatorship and of rule by Maoist guerrillas, the abolition of the 240-year-old monarchy, a massively destructive earthquake, devastating floods and a ruinous economic blockade.
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He was wearing shorts and flip-flops; he has a soft handshake and an easy, teasing manner that he knows will likely confound people who expect the sustained contentiousness that he employs online and on TV. (On cable news shows, Greenwald draws his lower lip over his bottom teeth, blinks slowly, and seems able to state his position on the Espionage Act of 1917 while inhaling.) Greenwald, though untroubled about being thought relentless, told me that he was "actually trying to become less acerbic, less gratuitously combative" in public debates.
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These viewers argued throughout the nomination-and-voting process that if Hollywood really wanted to more emphatically challenge white supremacist thinking, there were at least two other Best Picture options on the board: "Black Panther," Marvel Comics' lavish, stirring cinematic rendition of its first superhero-of-color (Chadwick Boseman) and leader of a high-tech African kingdom and "BlacKkKlansman," writer-director Spike Lee's acerbic true-life story of a black cop (John David Washington) in 1970s Colorado going undercover to prevent a white racist gang from terrorizing black college students.
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