Sentence examples for in a typical bit from inspiring English sources

"This is nice," he said in a typical bit of understatement.

And in a typical bit of faux Commons outrage, he was rounded on by members of the Labour party for describing our EU negotiating partners as "the enemy".

To that pronouncement, Garnet says that he'd not mind getting to the country to play a little golf, but pleads ignorance regarding the keeping of chickens, which Ukridge waves off in a typical bit of illogical bravado: "Excellent!

In a typical bit of wisdom, Wilder is explaining to Crowe how director Ernst Lubitsch solved a story problem Wilder was having in writing the screenplay for "Ninotchka": How would they show Greta Garbo's evolution from hard-core Communist to fierce capitalist without a lot of cumbersome speechifying?

A typical bit: In the living room, Gena suddenly tells Dasha to take off her clothes.

A typical bit of Wilsonian intrigue in the 1960s made it seem cunning to bring in Charles Hill, then regarded as a reliable BBC-baiter, a disruptive move which David Attenborough likened to putting Rommel in charge of the Eighth Army.

But that's a typical bit of Perry swagger.

Merkin is a serial killer in the Hannibal Lecter mode (although with none of Lecter's intelligence or soulfulness), released after a typical bit of police bungling.

I give you, for your birthday, a typical bit from her opus: "Quicksand!

The partial embrace of Reaganomics is a typical bit of Obama's postpartisan veneer.

Waldo's charm and aplomb can be illustrated by a typical bit of lateral thinking.