Word: caustically
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...incessantly subjected to "caustic personal commentary," it is important that they possess "qualities of personal security and stability...
This time Carter was not in awe of Ford, and at times seemed deliberately caustic and sarcastic to keep him off balance. When the President claimed that...
...part of Tom, the alcoholic, can only be convincing when the entire play is working. He is the most poorly developed character, the one we know the least about; he circles around the action making caustic comments without permitting anyone to know him. William Leach fills the bill competently although his final breakdown is incomprehensible to us, having been given no previous background about his character. Leach does not handle this weakness in Miller's script very well; and apparently he too failed to find the motivation for his character's collapse...
...still fear of the Harrises that led her to join them after they had fled all the way to a secluded farmhouse in northeastern Pennsylvania. She said she had been driven across the country by Jack Scott, the left-wing former Oberlin athletics director, who is a caustic critic of the U.S. sports establishment. Patty told how Scott and the Harrises wanted to produce a book that "was supposed to be some kind of propaganda thing about the S.L.A., and what they had done, and how great they were." To appease the Harrises, Patty said that in the farmhouse...
...abuse. He fears that the middle class will be "radicalized" if inflation is not brought under control. Since returning from his first European trip last fall, Wallace has stressed the need for good relations with U.S. allies. But he still fervently opposes most foreign aid, and he is caustic about détente. "I think the Russians have out-détented us." If he were President, he says, the U.S. would be the "No. 1 offensive and defensive power on the face of the earth. When you get that way, you can always negotiate...