rebarbative

No affection was felt for them, for they were consistently rebarbative.

I'm always on the lookout for a good chance to use the word "rebarbative", but it seldom comes.

It's easy to make political art that's polemical, grandiose and rebarbative.

He was also, quite consciously and for reasons almost inseparable from his rebarbative genius, a great hack.

As Nixon and the boy who would one day become his rebarbative five o'clock shadow both understood, football is simply war by other means.

Yes, literary theory is often jargon-filled, narcissistic, smug and generally rebarbative.

Art can be political and blunt, rebarbative even, and it's all right to force a viewer to jump through hoops to get its point.

If so, you are quite unlike me, for I eschew such transactions as rebarbative sentimentality, emotional retardation.

Probably Maggie found Victor's rebarbative malice to her liking.

Scholars consider his rebarbative, theory-laden prose a must-read.

He began drawing, figures and faces and occasionally rebarbative plants, in a flattened, linear style of suspended animation.

And Cosmopolis, which has hard things to say about the direction postmodern society is taking, is an awkward, rebarbative book.

Yet in Sean Holmes's superb production, the play looks less simply confrontational and rebarbative than the stoning suggests.

To someone who asked, "Why does Anita Brookner use hard words like rebarbative and nugatory?"

Juan Antonio and Maria Elena can't get along, but their rebarbative effect on each other produces some good paintings.

In a sense, "Stage Kiss" is a ghost play in which both the play-within-the-play and the rebarbative lovers keep the past present.

Could Reagan have turned out to be rebarbative to the biographer's art--so emotionally hollow as to be uncharacterizable, perhaps?

Perhaps the gentlemanly tradition that prevail d at some British studios was less stimulating than the rebarbative climate created by Hollywood moguls.

Ellis's 2004 biographical sketch suggests that much of Cruttwell's rebarbative manner may have been the result of simple shyness.

On the other hand, you did manage to use the great word "rebarbative" in the June 17 "Culturebox" ... so I'm not altogether unhappy.

His most rebarbative work,Criticism and Ideology, is an Althusserian rewriting of The Great Tradition.

James finished by saying that Osho, though a "fairly benign example of his type," was a "rebarbative dingbat who manipulates the manipulable into manipulating one another."

The uncompromising temperament of the Mitfords, combined with Mosley's rebarbative politics, involved renouncing the social life of which she had previously been a leading ornament.

Petit's collection, exploring the way trauma hurts an artist into creation, celebrates the rebarbative energy with which Kahlo redeemed pain and transformed it into paint."