Fresh berries are a vital component in many gorgeous dessert recipes as the combination of their acerbity and sweetness adds a delightful kick to almost any post-meal treat. Tiramisu, although you may ...

Though very crisp and bubbly, the tonic does not taste sweet, and it only takes a second for the acerbity to settle in. Even after swallowing, the bitterness continues to bloom and expand on the ...

In the other countries of Europe, racial and religious acerbity is intensified by economic and political agitation. These factors, although impotent to alienate the civil rights of the Jew ...

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Indeed, Manov has now simply become another name in a cycle of literary acerbity. One biblical proverb tells us: “Live by the sword, die by the sword.” One former “it” girl — Heidi ...

O’Brien, who introduced an Irish female perspective to the 1960s literary landscape, has produced stories over the last half-century that resonate with charm and acerbity, lyricism and terseness ...

In Surinam she witnessed the fortunes and fate of the Royal Slave, Oroonoko, of whom she writes (with all due allowance for pardonable exaggeration and purely literary touches), so naturally and ...

Bill Johnston had sharpness of mind and usually a crispness of phrase and judgment which could on occasion tend towards a slight acerbity of manner. He did not suffer folly gladly, though he ...