asperity

How To Use asperity In A Sentence

• At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
• It does, however, seem probable that Luke has to some extent glozed over the asperity of the controversies within the Church, notably the opposition to Paul and his views as described by Paul himself in Galatians and II Corinthians, in his attempt to emphasise the fundamental unity of the early Church.
• I remember checking a maid because she sang some bairnly kickshaw while my mind was thus engaged; and my asperity brought about my ears the enmity of all the petticoats about the house; of which I reeked very little, but it amused Mr. Henry, who rallied me much upon our joint unpopularity. Persecutions Endured
• I was mulling this when God spoke to me again, this time in a voice every bit as clear but now tinged with a hint of asperity: "Just go do what I'm sending you to do. Eliot Daley: My Memo To Atheists: Why I Choose God
• In another post Keith spoke with some asperity about ‘dolts’ who don't think much about the world around them and know little of politics.
• ‘If speaking of Demons was a crime,’ Dorain retorted with asperity, ‘we'd all burn!’
• I recall the asperity with which this easy out (Kushner's "God is not all-powerful") was dismissed by Yehuda Bauer, the former head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, when I asked him about it in Jerusalem. Disaster Ignites Debate: 'Was God In the Tsunami?'
• Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.
• Carmine in ammonia is not the only solution that may aid science in the investigations now being carried forward by the vitalists and non-vitalists with so much bitterness and asperity of feeling between them; and now that Professor Beale has made _his_ happy discovery, it is by no means certain that some other equally persistent worker in this interesting field of inquiry may not hit upon quite as happy a discovery in the same or some equivalent direction -- one that shall throw the bioplasmic theory as far into the shade as Mr. Cook thinks the bioplasts have already thrown the cells. Life: Its True Genesis
• Lettice had spoken with some asperity, and as Kemp had no wish to see her kitten claws in action, he announced it was time he went home. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE