Balancing this is the show’s caustic tut-tutting at materialists for wanting these baubles in the first place.

In their oral arguments, the attorneys refrained from repeating some caustic language from their written briefs.

"We have the means to limit the spread by... burying them with caustic soda."

Withdrawn and caustic, Janice is a raw lump of unresponsiveness bombarded by those determined to “fix” her.

So with recent lower court decisions and a rebuke by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, it appears that some attempt to cure the country of this caustic virus is underway.