Sentence examples for a barbed reference from inspiring English sources

It is perhaps a barbed reference to film company's role in producing Exit Through The Gift Shop.

The president used it to make a barbed reference to the recurrent exasperation in Europe with Britain's long-held assumption that it could have its cake and eat it.

The Maryland governor, who is far behind in the polls, also claimed to offer a "new generation's perspective" after making a barbed reference to the other candidates' ages during the debate.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, a veteran Socialist politician, said that "perhaps policemen and soldiers will be fighting," a barbed reference to the fact that the police are part of Mr. Rubalcaba's ministerial portfolio while Ms. Chacón oversees the army.

Asked to respond to the words "Hillary Clinton," he replied "foreign fund-raising," a barbed reference to a Washington Post story, published earlier this week, reporting that the Clinton Foundation raised money from overseas governments during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State.

"Who opposes street lighting," he demanded, "if not those ruffians who profit from the darkness of the night?" And then, in a barbed reference to the intellectual monopolists whose feeble glow depended on surrounding gloom and the ignorance of others: "A firefly only glows at night".

The chair of Scottish Ballet, Zoë van Zwanenberg, said in a statement that Hampson has "a clear understanding of what it means to lead a national company" – which may be a slightly barbed reference to Page's enthusiasm for programming his own camply lavish postmodern works.

She says little about her Facebook role and makes only a glancing, barbed reference to Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the Google founders.

His commentary on the gaudy baubles in glass cases – largely royal bling passed from one bored monarch to another – barely allowed pause for breath, but his barbed references to Queen Victoria and her scions were a salutary reminder that Iranians have no reason to love the Brits.

He explicitly compared his merciless Martians to the British colonialists who wiped out the population of Tasmania, while making plenty of other similarly barbed references to the cruelty and arrogance of empire.

In barbed references to what many Indian officials see as the United States' double standard on terrorism -- that the United States can crush it militarily in Afghanistan, but that India must be restrained -- Mr. Singh said terrorism east of Pakistan, in India, is just as bad as terrorism west of Pakistan, in Afghanistan.