“His music is liberally dissonant within a strongly tonal framework, the asperity resulting from the play of contrapuntal lines rather than from wilful experiment.”

“Being offended by the paparazzi, she responded with asperity in her tone.”

“She is forced to deal with the asperity of her new Frontier life.”

“By frequent collision asperities were worn off, and a foundation was laid for the establishment of a nation, out of discordant materials.”

“In this case, the resistance to sliding is produced by harder asperities on the surfaces and by adhesion between points of solid-solid contact.”

“Marx, reacting against the asperities of Capitalism, will establish a metanarrative promising emancipation from exploitation and alienation.”