| When I asked if he had never wanted to go back to South Africa, he responded with some asperity. |
| He also points out with asperity that Fry abandoned a play to near-certain death, allowing his friend Rik Mayall to sink with it. |
| Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |
| Marx, reacting against the asperities of Capitalism, will establish a metanarrative promising emancipation from exploitation and alienation. |
| They could also be very funny, or at least generously sprinkled with oblique and telling asperities. |
| In particular, seamounts on the subducting plate may serve as earthquake nucleation sites or asperities. |
