Word: causticity
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...Caustic...
...crush a reporter for ornate writing, a caustic city editor bawls, "What do you think you're writing for? A magazine?" The rebuke is pregnant with insulting implication. A newspaperman is jealous of his association with spot news and of the qualities of speed and vigor which he feels set him apart from the magazine "journalist...
...Forbes declined to make public the precise contents of the letter but it is understood to have contained caustic comment on the expenditure of so large a sum of money by Harvard for a work of art in the face of the prevailing unemployment, and to have suggested that the equivalent of the sum could have been more profitably employed in alleviating suffering among the laboring classes. Mr. Forbes would not declare whether or not the letter was signed...
Pressed for details, Editor Buré reminisced: "As far as I can recall, the incident took place in 1904. Clemenceau was then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...
...Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality is only a question of statistics." Other books: Antic Hay, Two or Three Graces, Point Counter Point...