rebarbative

How To Use rebarbative In A Sentence

• Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
• It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this.
• Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage.
• Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol.
• They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used.
• If this is correct, the US response should be to drive a wedge between the perpetrators and to their close supporters, rebarbative as they definitely will turn out to be.
• His volumes (physically unhandsome, in a rebarbative print-ondemand format, with cramped typesetting) are reader-unfriendly. The Times Literary Supplement
• The person who brings this out in most women is that television presenter who had the mean little whiney, rebarbative jibes that suited her well.
• he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful
• The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge.