Although privately his wit could be waspish and his judgment trenchant, his behavior was always courteous.

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Mr Lander does not resort to the waspish prose that makes some other restaurant critics fun to read.

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Heat's success reflects an innovative, more waspish approach, aimed at young women who might otherwise buy mainstream magazines such as Elle.

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Once celebrated for his waspish one-liners, Mr Bildt no longer bothers to attack directly his chief political foe, the prime minister, Goran Persson.

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He had an awesome temper and a waspish way with words.

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NATO, disagrees on all counts and in doing so he flouts Sweden's unspoken code of dignified consensus by speaking his mind candidly, often with a waspish wit.

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Amid the brutal exchange of forehands and backhands, Nadal produced the deftest of drop shots to provide a set point, which was ruthlessly converted with a waspish forehand.

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He is a waspish critic of American policy towards the Muslim world under George Bush, but manages to prick Western misconceptions without falling into Mr Crooke's error of taking extremist movements entirely at their own estimation.

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Meanwhile, the state's former treasurer, Paul Silvester, is serving a four-year jail sentence for taking kickbacks and bribes to steer state pension-fund business, a scandal that has touched the waspish, manicured suburbs of Connecticut's southern Fairfield County.

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WASPish cities like Boston and New York.

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