Word: causticity
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...fame, his appearance suggests that he never fully evolved past his student years: with vintage clothing and designer glasses, caustic wit and deadpan delivery, one can still see an easy-going undergraduate somewhere within this 32-year...
...peace with Iraq lies in the future, we must disarm Saddam not only of his weapons and chemical warfare, but also of his caustic and virulent ideology of bloody revolution. Unfortunately, taking this dictator’s cherished toys away now will not stem his ongoing pursuit of them...
...Yang's madness, Jian begins to find clarity of mind. Yang's caustic torments terrorize his mild student?and gradually cause Jian to question the career that has been set before him, the mentor he thought he knew and the world in which he lives. He's not the only one. While Jian sinks into depression, wondering whether he should bother sitting for his exams and doom himself to a barren life "as a clerk in a workshop", news of a student gathering in Beijing arrives through BBC radio broadcasts and Meimei's letters from the restive capital. Jian wants...
...official puckishly plants a white plume to mark the spot of the surgery. A third is guillotined at the waist, his top half still writhing after the severance. The last victim is buried to the neck, his scalp carved open at the top and a steaming caustic poured into it. He writhes in pain and explodes naked from the earth as the film?s title flashes on the screen. It?s like ?Jackass? in Cantonese, but faster, funnier, and with a little craft up its Merlin sleeve: an efficient mood-stoker...
Some were more caustic in tone: “Career Services absolves itself of any and all responsibility for the functionality of Career Link despite the fact we selected the vendor...