Sentence examples for clever repartee from inspiring English sources

I liked to stand unnoticed at the back counter, listening to clever repartee.

And as she and Mr. Feinstein engaged in clever repartee that seemed snatched out of the air, the two embodied a professionalism that is rarely seen nowadays.

Each vocal selection is designed as a clever repartee to a development in the narrative; the fetus blooms into the comedian Corinne longs to be.

Gres, designers seldom spoke to the press, and they certainly never had to confront a barrage of those television cameras that make clever repartee essential.

On the other hand, the André Charlot Revues of the 1920s, the handsome shows at the London Hippodrome, and especially the performances at Sir Charles Cochran's Ambassadors' Theatre were more intimate and emphasized clever repartee and topicality.

The case for Shakespeare's authorship of "Edward III" is built mainly on this act, with its clever repartee, its lyrical poetry and even one line -- "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds" -- borrowed from Shakespeare's Sonnet 94.

There was little opportunity for spontaneous repartee, clever riposts or other displays of quick thinking.

Characters in old films talk all the time, stuffing scenes with clever, beautifully constructed repartee.

Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick carry on "a kind of merry war" that tests their wits in clever but crushing repartees.

The script strives to capture the same irreverence and bonhomie, but the repartee is not nearly as clever as it thinks it is or needs to be.

The slow movement has an underlying mournfulness that looks ahead to the 19th century, but it is the coda at the end of the finale, with its brief repartee between piano and flute and its clever misdirections, that make this prime Mozartean real estate.