How To Use Asperity In A Sentence
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The New York Times noted his asperity when dealing with Apple's competitor, Microsoft, "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," he said.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: St. Steve Jobs? Probably Not, But….
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I can move her, if you like,’ the elderly surgeon said, a hint of asperity in his voice, ‘but this is the infirmary, after all-'
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I was trying to keep my asperity to a minimum, for his sake.
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He, too, noted with mild asperity the harsh encroachment of industrialization on the ethereal world of the cataract.
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Its interest, when changes in the world are inevitable and necessary, is to assist so that the changes "if possible, may be accomplished without war; or, if war occurs, that its duration and asperity be lessened.
From Disraeli to 'the Bang-Bang'
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Matty had spoken with asperity, and Scobie had to laugh.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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‘They are one and the same, young lady,’ the officer told her with some asperity. ‘I take it you didn't exactly plan this trip.’
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Even the newsboy, inured to the short words of an unfriendly world, and usually quite indifferent thereto, was impressed by the asperity of the suggestion and moved somewhat hastily on.
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories
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She is forced to deal with the asperity of her new Frontier life, and put up with a society that is formed mostly by men, who are constantly over powering her, and unyielding in their torment, her own family being no exception.
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I remember checking a maid because she sang some bairnly kickshaw while my mind was thus engaged; and my asperity brought about my ears the enmity of all the petticoats about the house; of which I reeked very little, but it amused Mr. Henry, who rallied me much upon our joint unpopularity.
Persecutions Endured
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The winding road led me up the flanks of stony hills, terraced everywhere for almond-trees; but after two or three hours of ascent the almonds dwindled away, and the country became an absolute desert of brashy hills, showing little asperity of outline, but mournful and solemn by their wastefulness and abandonment to a degree that makes the traveller ask himself if he is really in Europe, or has been transported by magic to the most arid steppes of Asia.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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When I asked if he had never wanted to go back to South Africa, he responded with some asperity.
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At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
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‘Yes, there were lots of things in there,’ she says, with a hint of asperity.
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‘Well, make sure it never crosses your navel,’ she retorted with asperity.
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Thicker films assure fewer asperity contacts and less wear.
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the asperity of northern winters
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To which she is likely to respond with a touch of asperity: ‘That is the wrong question.’
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‘Because I said so’, Emmett replied with some asperity.
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It conveys pathos, asperity or affectionate irony, rather as if one were in the presence of a relative from whom little is hid and to whom little need to be explained.
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That was something that would attract asperity.
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She'd been through the spellin'-book wunst, and had got as fur as 'asperity' on it a second time.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
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Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity.
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His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment.
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He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence.
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‘Oh, you know what I mean,’ Lady Benthorne said with some asperity.
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It does, however, seem probable that Luke has to some extent glozed over the asperity of the controversies within the Church, notably the opposition to Paul and his views as described by Paul himself in Galatians and II Corinthians, in his attempt to emphasise the fundamental unity of the early Church.
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I remember checking a maid because she sang some bairnly kickshaw while my mind was thus engaged; and my asperity brought about my ears the enmity of all the petticoats about the house; of which I reeked very little, but it amused Mr. Henry, who rallied me much upon our joint unpopularity.
Persecutions Endured
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I was mulling this when God spoke to me again, this time in a voice every bit as clear but now tinged with a hint of asperity: "Just go do what I'm sending you to do.
Eliot Daley: My Memo To Atheists: Why I Choose God
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In another post Keith spoke with some asperity about ‘dolts’ who don't think much about the world around them and know little of politics.
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‘If speaking of Demons was a crime,’ Dorain retorted with asperity, ‘we'd all burn!’
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I recall the asperity with which this easy out (Kushner's "God is not all-powerful") was dismissed by Yehuda Bauer, the former head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, when I asked him about it in Jerusalem.
Disaster Ignites Debate: 'Was God In the Tsunami?'
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Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.
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Carmine in ammonia is not the only solution that may aid science in the investigations now being carried forward by the vitalists and non-vitalists with so much bitterness and asperity of feeling between them; and now that Professor Beale has made _his_ happy discovery, it is by no means certain that some other equally persistent worker in this interesting field of inquiry may not hit upon quite as happy a discovery in the same or some equivalent direction -- one that shall throw the bioplasmic theory as far into the shade as Mr. Cook thinks the bioplasts have already thrown the cells.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Lettice had spoken with some asperity, and as Kemp had no wish to see her kitten claws in action, he announced it was time he went home.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Shear stress can be occasionally intensified if a given rock volume is exposed to local geometric effects such as bending around an asperity on a fault plane.
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She looked at him, considered the asperity coloring his tone.
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
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At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
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With all its merits, there are those who have thought that there was one thing in the declaration to be regretted; and that is, the asperity and anger with which it speaks of the person of the king; the industrious ability with which it accumulates and charges upon him all the injuries which the colonies had suffered from the mother country.
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
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‘In case you hadn't noticed, Milord, ‘he said with just a hint of asperity, ‘everyone's avoiding you.’
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There was a touch of asperity in his tone.
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That's nice -- as one of my Catholic friends put it with some asperity, she was glad Catholicism "was working out for him.
Doug Bandow: Should Christians Ask: Who Would Jesus Vote For?
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`I'm subdued myself," Jessica retorted with a touch of asperity.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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She pointed out, with some asperity, that it had all been my fault.
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As a friend of mine observed with some asperity, ‘Who cares if they're fresh and locally grown if they're covered in sugary goo?’
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‘I have to say, getting on the road and pounding along running or getting in the gym and spending hours pumping iron is not his greatest interest in life,’ Head said, with asperity.
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Nevertheless the fanatic lowlanders, propense to pillage and proselytizing, burned the Christian churches, massacred the infidels, and tortured the priests, until they provoked a blood feud of uncommon asperity.
First footsteps in East Africa
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Professor Brack deals with the question of Hawkins's "asperity" toward Johnson in his introduction.
The Powers of Dr. Johnson
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He, too, noted with mild asperity the harsh encroachment of industrialization on the ethereal world of the cataract.