Sentence examples for A smartass from inspiring English sources

A smartass wag might jest that Payne does not understand the dramaturgical principle of draft-exclusion or, to put it slightly more positively, that he has a strong susceptibility to drafts, given the purposeful prevarication of Constellations and its refusal to discriminate amongst the host of hypothetical variants through which the couple in this two-hander travel.

And he was a smartass, and that didn't help.

"I was a smartass film student who thought he knew everything about movies," Singleton said.

"Hey, I just got called a smartass by John McCain," bragged Jared Fernandez, high-fiving a friend.

I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good.

Make of that what you will though the real message I want you to take is that I'm a smartass seller of banal meta-fictions.

Granted, a genius janitor who's great at math but sides as a career smartass is an irritation of the most privileged kind.

The sarcastic crowd now has a variety of winky faces to indicate a comment's smartass quotient and tone -- a critical innovation, if you ask me.

So, we give you Thinkware, a line of smartass t-shirts that encourage reading, literacy and not being a moron.

(I especially love Sue Heck, whose dorky innocence is a break from smartass teens elsewhere on TV).

Leng presents three possible interpretations for this couplet: "another play on the blind seer idea"; or Harrison's rejection of the concept espoused in his 1968 Beatles composition "The Inner Light", "that knowledge is the key to enlightenment"; or, like his 1975 rebuttal to detractors such as Rolling Stone, "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)", a "dig at smartass rock journalists".