Sentence examples for good riposte from inspiring English sources

Hodgson's selection was ambitious, experimental and a good riposte to those who feel he lacks boldness.

The Forbes ranking is a good riposte, but it really only ratifies what we already know about her.

France's swaggering presence in central Africa is a good riposte to the sneering about Europe "gone soft" (try calling a French marine a paper tiger).

That's a pretty good riposte, although I'd say that if the other teams weren't so poor then surely United wouldn't have managed 89 points?

They were actually good friends and it is incredibly poetic they have gone at the same time".When he joined him on the back benches Howe said it was like being "cherished by a dead savage", which was his rather good riposte to the dead sheep line".

"Candy floss is a horror!" Parsons, meanwhile, admits that his wife is not the greatest fan of his lip furniture, but he has a good riposte: "I always say kissing a man without a moustache is like drinking champagne without the bubbles".

If it had, there were plenty of good ripostes: none of this had anything to do with official British policy; in Britain an artist's work is not judged by his personal views; and what is wrong with the dedication by the inanely sentimental composer anyway?

There was no effective riposte.

On immigration, he suggested tougher labour standards would prevent employers undercutting locals' wages.Mr Miliband seemed happiest of all discussing his vision of the "good society": ie, his riposte to David Cameron's "Big Society".

There's an even less successful routine about why fat people are good for the economy; and a clumsy riposte to a daft remark the actor Eva Longoria made about her eyelashes.

"I am not particularly good at or interested in this theatrical-riposte stuff," he told me.