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She did not, however, like his corrosively strong, black, unsweetened coffee at all.

Eroded through the interference of politicians and even more corrosively business.

So I projected myself into the situation he described, and what was left of my imagination gave me a corrosively cynical answer.

A man hates those companions corrosively, and these men hated their prisoner.

At the bottom of this phenomenon was a corrosively democratic attitude toward legal knowledge, which the legal profession now simply took for granted.

His voice was corrosively bitter, raw with self-laceration.

No one knew it better than the king; and no one felt it more corrosively.

His voice was corrosively chill.

The story is a corrosively funny fable set mostly in the Cook County jail in the 1920's.

He is sufficiently disengaged, in a corrosively ironic way, to neither deal with his mother's death nor pick up on his wife's affair.

"I want our files," Kirk attempted corrosively.

She was being corrosively insincere.

The portrait that emerges is corrosively funny and relentless: we may not like the narrator, but his torment is all too real.

Thistlethwaite swearing corrosively, produced the oxygen torch.

From the satirical wit of "The Player" (both novel and screenplay), he has moved ever more corrosively beyond the pale.

The couple, Alison and Ben, had bitter quarrels and seemed corrosively incompatible.

All of these questions no doubt have answers that Professor Galbraith could supply in a few of his corrosively elegant phrases.

(Lily is a particular triumph: a corrosively funny, chronically disgruntled bombshell.)

It was one of his best books: boastful, opinionated, indiscreet, but corrosively satirical and full of suspense.

"Magic," Paris said corrosively, pecking at his console with one hand, cradling his other arm in his lap.

Stand-up-style comic riffs and deadpan hipster banter keep interrupting the corrosively bleak narrative.

A gust of hot, metallic vapor, mounting from the abyss, burned corrosively in their nostrils as they peered from the gallery's verge.

The hatred of the Shadow felt by Mordeth combined corrosively with Fain's resentment of the changes forced upon him.

"Da Ali G Show," which begins tonight on HBO, is irresistibly, corrosively funny.

Entertainment Weekly described the artist performances as: "original melodies, some too wan for the strength of the lyrics, which range from the deeply romantic to the corrosively aggressive."