Sentences with word «acerbic»

The Big Short director takes his brand of acerbic wit and excessive cursing to TV with the series about a power - hungry family vying for control of the corporation headed by the aging patriarch (Brian Cox).

A fusion of «nigger» and «Literati,» Niggerati was «coined with acerbic wit by novelist Wallace Thurman to describe the bohemian vanguard of young black writers and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.»

Bill Belichick is 58, as acerbic as he was on his first day in coaching, and says he doesn't want to do anything else either.

Glenn Close, Bette Midler, Jon Lovitz and Roger Bart costar in this wickedly acerbic comedy from writer Paul Rudnick («Addams Family Values,» «In & Out»).

Hung facing the elevators, large - scale paintings by David Salle and Barbara Kruger are set against a backdrop of He Kills Me (1987), an AIDS protest mural by Donald Moffett, showing repeated lithographic images of Ronald Reagan in acerbic, Day - Glo colors.

Oprah has a much more acerbic response: «It's a myth, and one that has probably been solely responsible for thousands of unhappy marriages.»

Katherine Bernhardt, known for acerbic, dashed - off images of fashion models, is showing her latest subject: the face of a Swatch watch, much enlarged, with an eye to Philip Guston.

Will that give the Hundred Acre Wood a more barbed, acerbic tone?

But for such a heady draught of melodrama, From the Terrace also features a screenplay with all the immediate, acerbic bite of a hard - boiled film noir.

But in recent years he has become one of the most acerbic critics of teachers unions, clashing frequently with them when he was mayor and subsequently.

The contemporary parliamentary sketchwriter Quentin Letts is noted for his wit and acerbic tongue.

Diana W. Thompson, in her Huntington blog post, writes, «Combined with Pittman's brilliant draftsmanship and acidic color, the images advance an astute and acerbic social commentary embedded in narratives rich with real and invented mythologies.»

With acerbic humor and strangely profound insights, the artist lays bare the ambiguities, comedy and pathos of everyday life.

Enid and Rebecca's friendship is characterized by acerbic aloofness and the savage mockery of anyone and anything imbued with an ounce of earnest appreciation.

Far more involving — and upstaging the central action — is a subplot following the unlikely but inevitable romance between Preston's acerbic best friend (the delightful Lauren Ambrose) and white homeboy Kenny (a hilarious Seth Green), who find themselves locked in a bathroom together.

Kusama deftly manipulates that tension, peppering it with acerbic satire of all things New Age until it finally explodes late in the second act, leading to shocking acts of violence and an unforgettably ominous final image.

Short term money problems are relatively easily solved by marrying a wealthy but acerbic woman; influential friends to sponsor him are more difficult to come by as such friends expect favors in return, and Cicero is, apparently, a man of deeply held principles.

A savvy, acerbic look at how the reality - TV sausage gets made, with all its inherent manipulation, and collateral damage be damned.

This ably assembled little show makes you realise just how much the art world is dominated by sausage, because there's no other explanation for why I haven't seen more of these talented ladies, some of whom have some wildly acerbic views on men, the art world and their own bodies.

Oprah has a much more acerbic response: «It's a myth, and one that has probably been solely responsible for thousands of unhappy marriages.»

Marci also has one of the most acerbic senses of humor that the Western world has ever produced.

McMurray would enter rooms and win them over with eloquent calls for Democratic causes like unions and national health care, as well as acerbic attacks on Collins.

Hill's acerbic sense of humor and tendency to only speak when he has something to say makes for a great supplement to his films.

Still the Hollywood Reporter critic was mostly enthusiastic about the filmmaker's fidelity to Letts» script and maintained that the shots of the vast Oklahoma landscape add another dimension to the play's acerbic family drama.

However, Froberg's etchings offer more acerbic commentary, closer to Daumier or Goya in its darkness and sardonic humor.

Cynthia Nixon (Sex in the City) is perfectly awful as the aging Emily, but in earlier scenes she grins her way through acerbic words with the most bizarre delivery.

But what other acerbic acts are there?

True to form, posters on the official Bioware forums have exploded with their typical acerbic attitude (P.S. don't visit the official Bioware forums unless you want your head to explode.)

Leo is perfect casting as a woman whose acerbic personality helped define her.

Mavis Gary, the protagonist of Jason Reitman's acerbic dark comedy Young Adult, is a jerk.

Among other things, this gritty and sometimes acerbic film from director Guan Hu («Cow») is a crime - genre satire about the fallout of new wealth on narcissistic sons of China's modern capitalists.

Kevin Spacey picked up Best Actor in 1999 for American Beauty, but again, spent as much time agonising over his midlife crisis as he did delivering acerbic one - liners.

Greeley is appropriately critical of authoritarian patterns of leadership, casually dissenting on aspects of the Church's teaching (notably on sexuality), delightfully acerbic on the terrorism perpetrated by liturgists, and pastorally wise about things that can be done to make parish life more winsomely reflective of what he likes to call the Catholic imagination.

However, any objective reader will conclude that some of the more acerbic reviews are by members of the lobby who did not necessarily have warm memories of their relationship with Oliver.

These include Davidovich's storyboard - and comic - book - inspired drawings of a character, TeeVee, a sweet but slightly acerbic cartoon television — one that talks back and watches the watchers.

In a statement in the national daily Cameroon Tribune (no. 4506, 31 octobre 1989, p. 1), Simon Nko'o Etoungou, Cameroon's ambassador to Paris and former minister of foreign affairs under Ahidjo in the 1960s, lashed out against the rumor in very acerbic terms reminiscent of Ahidjo's own declaration at the UN some 30 years earlier:

That's because this third collaboration between director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno)-- and their second with star Charlize Theron (Young Adult)-- effectively transitions to more mature subject matter while retaining a playfully acerbic edge.

Danny's well - funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self - styled guru / owner Trevor (Pearce) and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat (Smulders).

Danny's well - funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self - styled guru / owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders).

Janney is terrific as skater Tonya Harding's acerbic mother in «I, Tonya,» a performance that's simply eclipsed the other nominees.

His prism tempers the more anxious, acerbic portrayal of city life offered by his peers Robert Frank and William Klein... Leiter's photographs are as likely to be compared to abstract expressionist painters like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman or Richard Pousett - Dart.

Hepburn — spunky, witty and wonderfully dressed in Givenchy couture — is a total natural alongside the slightly acerbic, been - there - done - that silver fox Grant.

Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»

His latest, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, contains many of the elements we've come to expect from the younger McDonagh brother — primarily a dedication to carefully crafted, sometimes acerbic dialogue — crystallised into what is his best and most consistently impressive film.

Good and acerbic comment about the greens and Obama, Robert.

Years after he left provincial politics behind, he'd offer acerbic assessments of Ontario's governing Liberals — partly, it seemed, for the fun of it (The fact his wife, Christine Elliot, took his provincial seat likely contributed to his interest).