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Don't get it on your skin. It's caustic.
caustic = capable of damaging or eating away (such as a strong acid)
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Be careful. The chemical is caustic.
caustic = corrosive or damaging
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And they had the caustic knowledge that no one had come between them and tragedy.
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In the past when he walked out like that and sat looking over the country lying in just the faintest visible shape where the lost moon tracked the caustic waste he'd sometimes see a light.
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- Sometimes they find tins of motor oil, caustic solvents, plastic bottles of bleach. (source)
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It's more than the reinforced elevator, or the claustrophobia of being so far underground, or the caustic smell of antiseptic.
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This morning, gasping lungfuls of caustic, snow-filled air, he had apparently frozen his larynx.
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Some days the halls were suffused with a caustic scent, as of a cleanser applied too liberally, other days with a silvery medicinal odor, as if a dentist were at work somewhere in the building easing a customer into a deep sleep.
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If Kilvin's demonstration was any indication, I guessed the whole shop could be a sea of flame and caustic fog in less than a minute.
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But then I remembered the chair at Hemingway's house had been lodged in a manchineel tree and must have been coated with a little bit of the tree's caustic sap.
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Matron's by contrast were doughy white, the knuckles large and red as if someone had taken a ruler to them; the knobby excrescencies on the fingers spoke of nothing but age and toil and the caustic soaps and scrubbings which were the first tools of her profession;
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The stench was caustic, scouring the throat and chest.
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Evidently the Tilghman brothers owned a giant vat of some caustic solution that stripped everything to the bare wood.
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With a passionate haste, she looked around her at the crowd, with eyes as smarting, unseeing, and tearful as if an oculist had put caustic eye-drops into them, and all the people began to move, shuffle, and walk out of the room, leaving her at last alone, behind half-closed doors.
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- On Rack 10 rows of next generation's chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine. (source)
- For many-headed is this surrounding Hydra; one head cut off, two more appear—unless the right caustic is applied to the mutilated (source)
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People passed, leisurely, self-absorbed, and as they entered the radius of the light, it fixed them momentarily in caustic, carrion-green.
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- I recognized some spurges that let their caustic, purgative sap trickle out. (source)
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The key that locks up the acids and caustic alkalies!
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Suction, ammonia, oil, the use of the knife, application of fresh mold, lunar caustic, leaves of certain plants, all these and more are mentioned.
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caustic = antiseptic (to cauterize a wound to prevent infection)
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Three days later Bazarov came into his father's room and asked him if he had any caustic.
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caustic = antiseptic (a harsh sterilizing liquid)
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At the same time it continued to boil, forming thick, low clouds, dark as tar, caustic, and ready to burst into flame.
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The caustic laxative worked so well that Hawley marketed it commercially under the disarmingly innocuous name Slim Jim.
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Our old friend caustic.
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That ought to have been done sooner; the caustic even is useless, really, now.
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caustic = antiseptic (a harsh sterilizing liquid)
- But had the district doctor no caustic? (source)
- Vassily Ivanovitch all at once turned quite white, and, without uttering a word, rushed to his study, from which he returned at once with a bit of caustic in his hand. (source)
- The doctor, the same district doctor who had had no caustic, arrived, and after looking at the patient, advised them to persevere with a cooling treatment, and at that point said a few words of the chance of recovery. (source)
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[H]e startled her when she turned round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him;
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She mixes lye with her own menstrual blood into a caustic brown paste, then thickly coats Graciela's head.
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There is an almost caustic discomfort in my lower chest and then down my right arm and right leg, what feels like lines of internal burns that sharply prickle and itch and ache.
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As I raged on like this I cut my chin in the usual place and had to apply a caustic to the wound; and even so there was my clean collar, scarce put on, to change again, and all this for an invitation that did not give me the slightest pleasure.
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caustic = antiseptic (a harsh sterilizing liquid)
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'You are a piece of caustic, Tom,' retorted Mr. James Harthouse.
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caustic = antiseptic (making things better)
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Some lint, mamma, for mercy's sake, bring some lint and that muddy caustic lotion for wounds, what's it called?
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She has a caustic sense of humor.
caustic = sarcastic, critical, or harsh
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I always enjoy her remarks, though they can be a bit caustic.
caustic = sarcastic or harsh
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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"Oh," Beatrice said caustically, "the one you went chasing when you shoulda been minding your own business."
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Just as Allied soldiers, like the cultures they came from, often held virulently racist views of the Japanese, Japanese soldiers and civilians, intensely propagandized by their government, usually carried their own caustic prejudices about their enemies, seeing them as brutish, subhuman beasts or fearsome "Anglo-Saxon devils."
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Further complicating matters, the prelate was deaf in his left ear, partial to Latin epigrams, and prone to stare at décolletage whenever he drank a glass of wine; while the Duchess Obolensky, who was particularly caustic in summer, frowned upon pithy sayings and could not abide discussions of the arts.
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caustic = sarcastic, critical, or harsh
- She was pretty but not beautiful, smart but caustic, never chic, never ambitious, always intent on teaching elementary school for a few years, then getting married and having two children and living back on a farm, though not necessarily our farm—a horse farm in Kentucky was one of her early ambitions. (source)
- And to the students of Gravesend who thus chafed against their bonds, the only accepted tone was caustic—was biting, mordant, bitter, scathing sarcasm, the juicy vocabulary of which Owen Meany had already learned from my grandmother. (source)
- He gestured with the folded white cloth and gave a short, caustic laugh. (source)
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"Do you?" asks Prim caustically.
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Gregarious by nature, Hall proved to be a skillful raconteur with a caustic Kiwi wit.
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The next day the newspaper singled out Chauncey Depew, president of the New York Central, for a particularly caustic appraisal.
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"That may be," he said caustically.
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The laugh itself was caustic as acid.
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He never said anything to that effect, but he continually threw caustic remarks my way, cutting me short, ignoring me, sometimes being just plain rude.
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- Cecilia Vanger can be extremely caustic. (source)
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"Yes, it's a disgrace," agrees the caustic, some-what original, and entirely imposing lady who presides over this "But the stamps work, don't they?"
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They were caustic about their vanished comrade, feeling that the character represented by Eric lacked courage.
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"There is," put in Shade caustically.
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She remained undisturbed by his caustic outbursts, sometimes asking the same question over and over again in different ways and carefully considering what little information he might let escape in spite of himself.
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"What a sweet way you have of putting things!" Yossarian snapped with caustic resentment.
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He dared to be a little caustic and ironic about the sisters' social activity, and, heaven forbid, their social awareness.
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He had a satire that was good-natured and caustic.
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"You're going to go back and be a cowboy?" she said caustically.
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Caius looked away with a caustic expression.
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"I don't know yet," his master had answered caustically.
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What else could we do? he says in a caustic, cutting voice which surprises Sophie, so at variance does it seem with his previous milky equanimity.
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They did this by saying unpleasant things to each other, their conversation becoming increasingly caustic until an emotional storm burst and soon ended in tears and a reconciliation.
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"Keep up his spirits, if you can."
[He adds caustically.]
"If you can without making it an excuse to get drunk!"
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...he caustically referred to them by name "as demure as three prostitutes at a christening."
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Each session produced wordy battles, personal remarks and caustic criticisms; what was lacking in the gentlemanly formality found in older congresses was made up in spice.
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Mr. Justice Wargrave, mellowed by the excellent port, was being amusing in a caustic fashion, Dr. Armstrong and Tony Marston were listening to him.
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"A fine midwife your Prissy will make," Scarlett remarked caustically.
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He snapped orders and lost his patience before the smallest difficulty; when he lost his patience, he screamed at people: he had a vocabulary of insults that carried a caustic, insidious, almost feminine malice; his face was sullen.
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- This going to the Lighthouse was a passion of his, she saw, and then, as if her husband had not said enough, with his caustic saying that it would not be fine tomorrow, this odious little man went and rubbed it in all over again. (source)
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Her new clothes were the subject of caustic comment.
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She was indolent, passive, the caustic even called her dull;
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...the latter—saturnine, spare and tall, one in whom a discreet causticity went along with a manner less genial than polite, replied, "Your pardon, Mr. Purser."
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causticity = critical nature
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Dawes stared up at the picture with a caustic expression on his face.
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So ended Naphta's caustic oration.
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As they pushed out, giving and receiving curious impersonal glances, Amory decided that he liked the movies, wanted to enjoy them as the row of upper classmen in front had enjoyed them, with their arms along the backs of the seats, their comments Gaelic and caustic, their attitude a mixture of critical wit and tolerant amusement.
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LORD CAVERSHAM. Engaged to be married yet?
LORD GORING. [Genially.] Not yet: but I hope to be before lunch-time.
LORD CAVERSHAM. [Caustically.] You can have till dinner-time if it
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"I'm driving at this," spoke up Stewart, presently; and now he was slow and caustic.
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His—if I may say so—his caustic placidity, and, at the same time, his intelligent sympathy with Jim's aspirations, appealed to me.
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Izz was by nature the sauciest and most caustic of all the four girls who had loved Clare.
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"Lydgate would say that was not worth knowing," said Mr. Ned, purposely caustic.
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"I am very amiable and have a caustic wit," continued Prince Andrew, "and at Anna Pavlovna's they listen to me."
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"How now!" said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever. "What do you want with me?"
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If Lundie himself were to call on me for an opinion which I admire more, your person or your wit, beautiful and caustic Mabel, I should be at a loss to answer.
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The words came out more caustic than I intended.
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Caustic, opinionated, he disliked just about everyone.
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'Would it be any less terrible if they had all been new men?' he inquired caustically.
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- "Did the dead man in my tent have a share?" Yossarian demanded caustically. (source)
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"I wasn't noticing that." He adds caustically.
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- [Caustically] I don't notice you've worn any holes in the knees of your pants going to Mass. (source)
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The civility of this encounter belied a caustic battle being waged outside Jackson Park for the rights to illuminate the exposition.
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- From the start there was tension between the two firms, although no one could have known it would erupt years later in a caustic attack by Sullivan on Burnham's greatest achievements, this after Sullivan's own career had dissolved in a mist of alcohol and regret. (source)
- …flights of creaking wooden stairs and guided them through a doorway into their own wonderful and resplendent tenement apartment, which burgeoned miraculously with an infinite and proliferating flow of supple young naked girls and contained the evil and debauched ugly old man who irritated Nately constantly with his caustic laughter and the clucking, proper old woman in the ash-gray woolen sweater who disapproved of everything immoral that occurred there and tried her best to tidy up. (source)
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He laughed caustically.
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Beginning in the same humorous vein, the Senator warmed to his work and concluded his speech by caustically blistering all of his enemies, including those who stood sheepishly before him and whom he later described as poor, ignorant beings who were collected on the bank of the river for the very honorable purpose of ducking me for giving an independent opinion.
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Perhaps for this very reason—although I might honestly have bridled at the intolerant Yankee slurs that had sometimes come my way (even good old Farrell had gotten in a few mildly caustic licks)—I did feel at my heart's core a truly burdensome shame over the kinship I was forced to acknowledge with those solidly Anglo-Saxon subhumans who were the torturers of Bobby Weed.
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His grim and caustic tongue reproved my indolence.
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Sometimes he was caustic; sometimes to Thoby especially instructive.
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Fear and hatred were almost gone, or traces of them showed only in a slight exaggeration of the joy of freedom, a tendency to the caustic and satirical, rather than to the romantic, in her treatment of the other sex.
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(caustically) "Yes, and bejees, if I ever seen you throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens!"
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"Perhaps you will wake up and find the sun shining and the birds singing," she said compassionately, smoothing the little boy's hair, for her husband, with his caustic saying that it would not be fine, had dashed his spirits she could see.
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Naphta sat silent, his eyes sparkling, a caustic look on his face.
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- He sat silent, his skinny hands in his lap, a caustic look on his face. (source)
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'You don't happen to know any good of him, do you?' said Mr. Grimwig, caustically;
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An occasional caustic allusion to "your friends the Wellington Brys," or to "the little Jew who has bought the Greiner house—some one told us you knew him, Miss Bart,"—showed Lily that she was in disfavour with that portion of society which, while contributing least to its amusement, has assumed the right to decide what forms that amusement shall take.
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- The movies thrived on caustic comments, but the men who made them were generally running it out; talking of clubs was running it out; standing for anything very strongly, as, for instance, drinking parties or teetotalling, was running it out; in short, being personally conspicuous was not tolerated, and the influential man was the non-committal man, until at club elections in sophomore year every one should be sewed up in some bag for the rest of his college career. (source)
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Naphta's words had been caustic, apodictic—even though it was he who had defended a larger definition of freedom.
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True, you're a windbag and organ-grinder, but you mean well, mean better than that caustic little Jesuit and terrorist, that Spanish torturer and flogger with his flashing glasses.
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...whereas on more than one occasion Naphta had shown a caustic disregard of Virgil and of the Latin poets in general—and promptly and maliciously used this opportunity to do so again.
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A caustic, tormented spirituality drifted toward him in those words; probing deeper, he discovered both knowledge and a maliciously elegant mode of thought—all the more surprising, given the young man's tattered exterior.
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Little Naphta might have made use of it, but it would have been a usurpation, mere caustic chatter, whereas in Peeperkorn's mouth the thunderbolt was trumpeted forth with its full crashing, booming, biblical impact.
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And then there was caustic little Naphta, who was bound to strict vows—and such a freethinker that he came close to being a libertine himself, making the Italian look like the dupe of virtue, so to speak.
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Somehow everything about him was caustic: the aquiline nose dominating the face; the small, pursed mouth; the pale gray eyes behind thick lenses in the light frames of his glasses; even his studied silence, from which it was clear that his words would be caustic and logical.
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- In caustic words, Naphta forbade Herr Settembrini to call himself an "individualist," because he denied the polarity of God and nature and defined the question of humanity, the problem of man's interior conflict, as simply the conflict between the individual and larger social units, and so was wedded to a bourgeois morality that was tied to life, understood life as an end in itself, saw its sole purpose in unheroic utility, and viewed all moral law as invested in the state; (source)
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At the moment, however, their current discussion consumed his total attention, because Naphta now went on to discuss in caustic fashion the general biases that induced humanists to honor health on principle and dishonor and belittle sickness whenever possible—a position, however, that revealed a remarkable and almost praiseworthy self-abnegation on Herr Settembrini's part, since he was himself ill.
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- Granted, she did not have to deal here with Herr Lodovico's fundamental repudiation of her character, and the essentials for conversation were somewhat more favorable, so that the two of them, Clavdia and the caustic little man, would sometimes move away from the others to talk: about books, about questions of political philosophy, where they found agreement in radical answers; and Hans Castorp sometimes ingenuously joined in as well. (source)
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…was reminded of that humanist's spare garret with its lectern and rush-bottom chairs and water carafe; whereas Naphta, after first claiming that lust could never be without guilt and that nature should, if you please, have a bad conscience in the presence of the Spirit, went on to refute the nihilism of the ascetic principle by defining the Church's policy of spiritual indulgence as "love"—and Hans Castorp found the word "love" sounded very odd coming from caustic, gaunt little Naphta.
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Whereupon Naphta felt obliged to offer cold, caustic proof—and his proof was almost blindingly incontrovertible—that the Church was the embodiment of the religious, ascetic ideal, and at her core not even remotely an advocate or supporter of forces whose concern was to maintain themselves: worldly education and civil authority, for instance; rather, from time immemorial the Church had inscribed radical overthrow upon her banner—destruction, root and branch.
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As was the custom here, he wore neither hat nor overcoat, but he was very well dressed: his suit was dark blue flannel with white pinstripes, its cut elegant, understated, stylish—which did not escape the scrutiny of the cousins' sophisticated eyes, though their gaze was immediately countered by an even sharper, more caustic inspection of their persons.
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Perhaps he felt that under the circumstances Naphta 'was temporarily in a superior position; perhaps it was this momentary supremacy of his foe that he had been attempting to counter with lively expressions of grief and mat now silenced him—and kept him silent when Leo Naphta exploited his fleeting advantage by declaring with caustic sententiousness: "The error of literary men is to believe that only the Spirit makes us respectable."
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He was a small, skinny, clean-shaven man, and so ugly—caustically, one could almost say corrosively, ugly—that the cousins were astonished.
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He, too, was often confined to bed; the cracked-porcelain sound in his voice rattled more loudly now when he spoke, and as his fever rose, he spoke more—and more caustically and cuttingly than ever.
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...and bound up with the idea and image were all sorts of gloomy, caustically Jesuitical, and misanthropic notions, the torture and corporal punishment that were such abominations to Herr Settembrini, who with his barrel organ and ragione could only appear ridiculous in his opposition to them.
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- Naphta's crude end, that terrorist deed committed by a caustically desperate antagonist, had been a terrible blow to his sensitive nature; he had been unable to get over it, had been frail and subject to fainting spells ever since. (source)
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In any case, whenever the Italian warmed to that cause, Naphta would champion a Christian world citizenship, claim every land and no land as his fatherland, and caustically recall the phrase of Nickel, a former general of the order, who declared patriotism "a plague and the surest death of Christian charity."
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Mr. Deane, he considered, was the "knowingest" man of his acquaintance, and he had besides a ready causticity of tongue that made an agreeable supplement to Mr. Tulliver's own tendency that way, which had remained in rather an inarticulate condition.
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Mr Flintwinch, after scraping his chin, and looking about with caustic disparagement of the Pig-Market, nodded to Arthur, and followed.
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The difference of accent, the excitability of the singer, the intense local feeling, and the seriousness with which he worked himself up to a climax, surprised this set of worthies, who were only too prone to shut up their emotions with caustic words.
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- He had found more words than usual in the first jet of his anger, but Mr. Brooke's propitiation was more clogging to his tongue than Mr. Cadwallader's caustic hint. (source)
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The latter in Pierre's presence had ceased to be caustic, and his face expressed perplexity as to what Julie's smile might mean.
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- Seeing him, Kutuzov's malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what was being done was not his adjutant's fault, and still not answering the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkonski. (source)
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"Or I could," I added caustically.
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"That you're making a humongo habitat?" Steren said caustically.
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It could be at the same time caustic and seductively convivial.
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I say mercifully because it was never my nature to harbor such thoughts, which have always been near-caustic to me, but in respect to the doctor a vital, searing charge was propelling me, an ashen, bitter hate whose taste I no longer abhorred.
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