| It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon. |
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| Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented. |
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| Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. |
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| Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage. |
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| The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge. |
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| Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists. |
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| As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering. |
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| They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used. |
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| Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour. |
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| 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. |
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| That is why, come what may, we must protect the interests of the general public against the greed and unreason of rebarbative witlings. |
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| But there is no getting around the fact that Kraus's work is rebarbative today. |
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| 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. |
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| But free-speech advocates insist on the church's constitutional right to say rebarbative things, and the courts partly agree. |
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| Mr Brown now has a less rebarbative press team and a better Number 10 operation. |
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| His Satan has an ambivalence that allows him to represent revolution in both its heroic and its rebarbative aspects. |
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| Instead, the expressions of delight on the faces of ordinary Afghans, and the tales of life under the rebarbative Taliban, have offered eloquent justification for calling the downfall of the regime a liberation. |
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| Ignorance is simply the reverse of culture, just as violence is the reverse of the human societies that strive to regulate it, to limit it, to circumscribe it within legitimate form, however rebarbative these may be. |
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| Central to the story was Steve Eisman, an eccentric and rebarbative hedge-funder who was one of the earliest to see through the subprime lies. |
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| This makes much of his later work look somewhat rebarbative on the page, until one gets used to it and takes no notice. |
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| It's not just the rebarbative pseudo-thought, the cliched political sloganeering, the minatory, all-knowing tone. |
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| We'd done the critical reading and so could sort through the often rebarbative yet always challenging works we favored. |
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| Why is it, to speak bluntly, that so much of what we are called upon to admire as art has the smirking, rebarbative quality of a bad joke? |
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| And his consideration of the sophistication of the Wallace, a description rarely bestowed on it, should begin the rehabilitation of this rebarbative poem. |
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| A recent critical rereading of Neue Sachlichkeit, and in particular its verist subgroup, allows us to better grasp the significance of this rebarbative figurative language. |
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