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Example sentences for: caustic

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Alec makes news with his caustic condemnations: He called Newt Gingrich "evil" and Alfonse D'Amato "the bozo pool attendant from Island Park."
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.
The attempt to wheedle money out of the caustic and not-quite-there old man is the real glory of American Movie . As Borchardt shows Bill pictures of pretty actresses, offers him a credit as an "executive producer," buys him booze, and promises big profits and glory down the road ("I see great cinema in this."
This is a pity, for his caustic tone and shallow glosses undermine what is a bold and worthy effort: to write a readable one-volume history of the American people.
Seizing on Fielding's allusions to Pride and Prejudice , critics declare Diary an Austenlike comedy of manners that captures the Zeitgeist . They praise the protagonist's caustic humor for providing an antidote to her "perfectly coiffed ...