Word: caustically
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...incapable of both love and brutality, the romantic gestures of pity and hatred. He is wildly popular, and decently agonized about it. He is closed off to the turmoil of the dilating implications of things, a receptivity which may be inspirational or insinuative. Arkadina is steady and caustic, overbearing in her rationality, but qualified by patronization. Perhaps she senses that the people around are children, but she is unable to go beyond that. Sorin, oar and infirm, feels he has lost out on life and is probably right. He hates to be contradicted by Yevgheniy, a doctor (the only...
...came from, of all people, Italians. During a nine-hour visit to the island of Sardinia, Paul and his motorcade became involved in a battle between police and Sardinian anarchists in which rocks and fists flew. Uninjured and safely back in Rome, the Pope next day leveled an unusually caustic criticism-somewhat reminiscent in tone of Vice President Agnew-at Italian newspapers for having headlined that single incident when his reception in Sardinia had been overwhelmingly favorable...
...caustic, illusionless side of Miss Porter that pervades much of this collection of essays, reviews, asides and letters. Only a few well-made literary essays-on Thomas Hardy, Eudora Welty, Willa Gather-reflect morning freshness and intelligence at high noon...
Jesse Jackson is somebody all right. He 'has a host of adoring admirers as well as caustic critics. But he is still too young to assume a black leadership role on a national scale. He rightfully resents white journalists who portray him as the heir to King or the rival to Abernathy. If S.C.L.C. were to seek a new leader today, the Atlanta-based organization would not be apt to reach outside the South. Until he decided to run for Congress, the most likely
...asking for food from neighborhood merchants. Though discipline is strict, they are cheerful and friendly. The members huddle in frequent bull sessions and gather regularly for group therapy with a trained psychologist. In those agonizing meetings?the one with Ralphie is typical?the kids are by turns affectionate and caustic with one another. Whatever the mood at any one moment, they show a passionate seriousness and a deep mutual concern that is overwhelming to an outsider...