Sentence examples similar to cutting retort from inspiring English sources
When Petruchio's antic charm offensive meets Kate's well-manned defenses, the combustion makes for a lively scene of cutting gibes and scornful retorts that is taken at a galloping clip.
Prevent it by cutting spending and nurturing personal responsibility, American conservatives retort.
There were so many things one could retort to Peggy, replies at once cutting and polite; the trouble was, Stella never thought of them in time.
(Marion's retort is both admirably calm and decisively cutting: "I doubt you'll get that good of a job").
"Voluptuous," she retorted, then proceeded to define the unfamiliar term, cutting off the laughter and offering a memorable vocabulary lesson in the process.
The news will be seen as a retort to Labour claims that the coalition has abandoned young people by cutting the Education Maintenance Allowance, raising tuition fees and ending the Future Jobs Fund.
The prime minister retorts that the government has been acting "like a good surgeon" cutting out "diseased tissue".The Kaczynskis may have been right to try to rid Polish public life of post-communist sleaze.
Republicans retort that the budget-cutting Doomsday device called sequester was actually invented by the White House.
From Manhattan to Milan, the Occupy movement is saying "Enough Already!" No, European leaders retort, we need more — more budget-cutting, more sacrifice to set our houses in order after the debt-driven binge of this century's first decade.
Environmentalists retort that at the present rate of cutting, they will be gone in a decade: "The mill capacity outpaces the forest capacity," says one.
