| He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence. |
| 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. |
| Samples, tapes, synths, drum programmes and all-sorts have been embedded into the sound to create a dynamic asperity. |
| Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence. |
| Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |
