Word: causticity
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...republic" of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow pits a bloated, inept dictator - whose solution to the country's crippling poverty is to build a tower that reaches heaven - against a wizard who cures his clients with emotional therapy disguised as sorcery. As lyrical as a bedtime story, but also caustic and earthy, the novel grapples with big issues - social inequality, corruption, aids - along with more subtle signs of Africa's insecurity, like envy of the West or the loss of a national language. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. "Dictatorship is tragedy that manifests itself in comedy," says Ngugi...
...course they didn't. But Clinton went some way toward confirming the very thing Coulter had alleged: that certain kinds of discourse - caustic, yes; outrageous, yes; illiberal, certainly - are not allowed...
...College, requested an office but received only a storage locker. Large political groups, such as the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard College Democrats, also felt snubbed, receiving significantly smaller spaces than they applied for. And if you write for the Harvard Salient, you could only look on with caustic bewilderment as other substantially less prolific publications (such as a glossy lifestyle magazine that has published exactly one issue) ended up with more than double your share of the Hilles pie. These assignments are so surprising because the Committee on College Life’s Subcommittee on Student Organization Space...
...caustic wit and crisp British accent make Dr. Knock both sympathetic as the only voice of scientific logic in the small town of San Maurice and—once Dr. Knock successful converts the population of San Maurice to depend on his “treatments”—believable in his monstrosity as a megalomaniac authority figure who creates bedridden, paying patients out of healthy townspeople. Above all, she excels at that transition between disappointed young doctor and crazed dictator...
...Shall We Sing a Duet?” features a pair of vocalists exchanging proclamations of love—but, as one of the singers reminds us, “one will never forget all the clichés and lies.” Despite the oft-caustic lyrics, these songs are a pleasant listen. For longtime Merritt listeners, they won’t do much that previous Magnetic Fields albums haven’t done already and better (or 6ths albums, or Future Bible Heroes albums, or any of Merritt’s other projects...