Sentence examples for barbed observations from inspiring English sources

As they lunge and twirl in synch, barbed observations of each other's shortcomings emerge.

Finally, Phil Ochs' references to Hubert Humphrey and Medgar Evers may have dated, but his barbed observations still draw blood.

When she drops in one of her delicately barbed observations about someone she encounters, our opinion of him never recovers.

As the alcohol-fueled dinner proceeds, Eva serves shish kebab along with barbed observations about Alfred, whose cheerful nature she derides.

The difference is palpable on screen: Mr. Bourdain is both more relaxed and more engaged, his narration is more cohesive (and even moving), his barbed observations have more force.

If Ben's funk is the grown-up version of a prolonged temper tantrum by a child insisting that the world know how unhappy he is, his barbed observations about greed and injustice still hit home.

Yet the academic allusions, filigree word play and barbed social observation are directly linked to a truly affecting love story.

As a composer and lyricist, Mr. Wallowitch belonged to the Noël Coward-Cole Porter school of songwriting that reveled in word play and barbed social observation.

A difficult mixture of barbed and hilarious class observations, a naturally warm writing style and a massive soppy heart that always sides with the underdog makes Cooper frankly irresistible, and Mount is no different.

Catchy as their songs are, they have been a vehicle for barbed – and occasionally sweary – observations on modern relationships, which on their latest album Open Every Eye occasionally takes them into the territory of Depeche Mode.

And despite the occasional pseudo proclivity ("Ingmar Bergman and Madonna should have been at Monterey Pop"), her lyrics generally deserve better delivery than she can muster, littered as they are with striking observations and barbed couplets like "It used to be so good/ Now, I've got a gun".