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Example sentences for: caustic

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The part is all mugging--pulling Harpo-like faces--but Morton turns it into a delicious tease, always seeming on the verge of speech, of saying something naughty or funny or caustic.
Pessimists speculated that Jobs' caustic perfectionism would make it hard to hire a good CEO.
Critics revel in his caustic humor and vengeful gossip about new-media moguls (he describes one AOL exec as "a fat man, an ugly man, sweating like crazy").
To let fly with his caustic wit risks a boomerang effect.
Those in favor call the film "scorchingly funny" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) and Stiller's performance "rivetingly caustic" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Those against complain that the film is "a shallow tale told by an idiot" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and that Stiller's junkie character is too thoroughly unappealing for the audience to ever root for him.