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Example sentences for: scathing

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The New York Times calls the 42-page counter-attack a "scathing rebuttal," the Washington Post opts for "blistering counterattack," and the Los Angeles Times calls it "acid-worded."
Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.
Couldn't we get some ace script doctors in there to write bitchy, scathing lines for our candidates?
He has published half a dozen books on the plight of the Palestinians, including The Question of Palestine (1979), After the Last Sky (1986), and Peace and Its Discontents (1995), a scathing critique of the Oslo peace accords, which Said calls "the Palestinian Versailles."
The book had its defenders, but the reviews were mostly scathing.