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Usage for asperity


The quip deftly bridges any perceived gap between her brief but potent stint as a Sixties screen sex symbol, and her position now as an elder stateswoman of the stage, capable of both tragic grandeur and wicked comic asperity. ...

“I'll tell you why,” said Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram with some asperity to a news channel anchor who was a little bit more aggressive than the others. “We don't have our forces on Pakistani soil. We are not invited there. ...

Wife and matriarch Agnes is coolly controlling, an essay in asperity, but cast an actress noted for nastiness and the role is flattened out. But Penelope Wilton is not only celebrated for the breadth of her compassion, she also began her acting career ...

Morgan Griffith noted with some asperity, the federal government underwrites an unending stream of nonsense projects whose funding could be put to better use rebuilding homes and communities. Washington collects a gawdawful lot of taxes. ...


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