Sentence examples for cutting sarcasm from inspiring English sources

When a reporter raised that possibility, Stern responded with cutting sarcasm, saying, "I don't have your collective bargaining expertise or your crystal ball".

At some point after Sam's departure, Mrs. Corelli, played with cutting sarcasm and Chicago-tinged vowels by Josette DiCarlo, wins $53 million in the lottery.

Speaking to the state's largest teachers' union this morning, the senator scolded Mr. Silver with cutting sarcasm for releasing details of budget negotiations to reporters.

Expect Mr. Biden, who is able to deliver cutting sarcasm without seeming angry, to continue to make up for Mr. Obama's passivity at the first debate by accusing Mr. Romney of dissembling about long-held policies.

Few speakers here have come close to the cutting sarcasm of Ann Richards's keynote speech at the convention in Atlanta in 1988, when she dismissed the elder George Bush as "poor George," a man "born with a silver foot in his mouth".

Look on the comments field of an any given article and you'll often read through fiery blasts of cutting sarcasm, bloodied rhetorical noses, a virtual reality consisting of white-hot editorial reactions.

Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.

"Sorry", I said, turning on my heel and looking in every direction, "Which way is east?" "Well, Mr. Bond", he answered, with a cutting flash of sarcasm, "do you see which way the sun is setting?

Sarcasm, cutting humor, snarkiness (with its always flexible and all too precarious balance of humor and passive aggressiveness) are particularly difficult to transmit virtually.

But recipients of his cutting wit and occasional sarcasm knew that this was not the whole picture".

4. Making destructive comments: The needless sarcasm and cutting remarks that we think make us witty. 5. Starting with "No," "But," or "However": The overuse of these negative qualifiers which secretly say to everyone "I'm right and you're wrong".