Word: causticity
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...WHITE AMERICA. This series of documentary dramatic sketches about racial intolerance is moving in its self-contained pain, playfully caustic in its humor...
...Alabama courts had detected in Commissioner Sullivan's case was totally demolished. The First Amendment, said the Supreme Court, clearly spelled out "a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." This commitment, the court has long held, binds the states through the 14th Amendment, which forbids them to abridge a person's liberty without "due process of law." Added the court: "The Times advertisement, as an expression of grievance...
...discussion after Khrushchev had concluded a most noisy diatribe, which he climaxed by removing his shoe and beating it upon the podium, Harold Macmillan looked up blandly into the TV cameras. "Would someone mind translating the gentleman's remarks" he murmurred. How caustic! How arid! How British! Now, imagine Red Skelton impersonating Macmillan. No more snap and crackle than yesterday's milk-logged Rice Krispies...
...over the Tories' strange "evolutionary" method of choosing a Prime Minister, suggested that the technique owed more to Machiavelli than to Darwin. It also showed fissures in a party which traditionally has gained much of its public strength by presenting a sound, "nonfissiparous" image. Though Macleod's caustic chronicle came in reply to a fulsomely pro-Macmillan book by Journalist Randolph Churchill, and thus allowed Macleod to appear only to be setting the record straight, many Britons sensed the beginnings of a new leadership battle. If the Conservatives lose to the Labor Party in the next election...
...could be as rough on lawyers as on defendants, often barked his caustic impatience when counsel seemed to him to be sluggish or ill-prepared. "His facial expressions and gestures," said one critic, "his intonations, his pauses at the proper moment, all clearly indicate his belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...