| Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage. |
| Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented. |
| As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering. |
| That is why, come what may, we must protect the interests of the general public against the greed and unreason of rebarbative witlings. |
| They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used. |
| Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists. |
