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Перевод: acerbic speek acerbic


[прилагательное]
кислый; терпкий; резкий; неприятный


Тезаурус:

  1. Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
  2. This quality is reflected in an accent that has a blunt and acerbic ring to it, especially in east Berlin, which was always more plebeian than most western districts.
  3. I has all his trademarks and more: male impotence and self-importance; female oppression and revenge; and acerbic wit that cuts swathes through any passing target.
  4. So when the Colonel's lady - with the provincial's enthusiasm for champagne - questioned her choice of an exquisite and rare-vintage sweet wine from Frontignan to accompany the pudding, Fru Mller was uncharacteristically acerbic in her response.
  5. In return for a book of her own - God Persists - Lewis sent Sister Penelope The Pilgrim's Regress , and she noted his acerbic satire on High Anglicans.
  6. Pilkington recounts how when Winifred Harper turned on her tap, "out came a yellowy, stinking acerbic fluid which curdled the milk".
  7. The NME was unusually acerbic about the incident, referring to Gedge's "fat arse" and continuing: "This could of course explain the band's recent silence.
  8. Kieslowski's acerbic critiques of life under communism won little respect from the Party.
  9. The suggestive outlines of a hierarchy of disdain can be traced: the "tragic Garbo" is preferred to Mickey Rooney, Betty Boop to Donald Duck; their most acerbic denunciations are reserved not for "amusement" or "light" art in themselves, but for the attempt by the Culture Industry to absorb "light" into "serious art", accommodating difference to the familiar - "Benny Goodman appears with the Budapest string quartet".
  10. The simple faith conveyed in Pannekoek's treatise recalls earlier utopian writing, and contrasts with the strident and acerbic tone of Situationist writing.
  11. The Gasthof Lwen was spotlessly clean and the Gute Frau obviously intended, by her acerbic tone and more acerbic expression, that it would be kept that way.
  12. Only Alexander Mackendrick at Ealing and David Lean seemed able, to some extent, to sustain their earlier initiatives, the one by focusing an acerbic eye on the state of England, the other by applying his extraordinary craftsmanship to such international films as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

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