Word: bitingly
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...single bark might sacrifice a bite, so the bull dog shuts his mouth, grits his teeth and concentrates upon the job at hand...
...still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed spectacles. This gesture, observers realized, was not a conscious precaution against a bite or horned warts. Pointing with the bars of his spectacles, indefinitely, with both bars at once, is a gesture President Coolidge habitually employs to indicate a document or memorandum under discussion...
...enliven the cautious conversations at Rome, last week, came a fire eating, swashbuckling editorial from L'Impero, an arch-Fascist news organ which performs the sometimes useful function of a watch-puppy which can bark but not bite. Barked L'Impero...
...spite of Mr. Volstead; but most of all, consider his lot when the very mouth he supplies turns to whisper against him. Of all those among whom he plies his nefarious trade, rumor has it that the student is most addicted to his wares; that the student should bite the hand that feeds him, or more strictly, act against the man that gives him to drink, is incredible...
...main he is tenaciously faithful to it. The trouble is that he is no more able to handle a subject with the tragedic poetntialities belonging to this one, than is the present cast capable of creating the necessary stage illusion. It is case of a large, undigested bite on the part of the playwright, wrangled through by the actors to a conclusion which is powerful in spite of itself. Briefly the story concerns an unrequited love, and it must be said in due praise, that there is nothing halfway in the lack of reciprocation,--neither is the plot in this...