Sentence examples for like one-liners from inspiring English sources
Whereas today, buildings look more like one-liners: they can be technologically much more sophisticated but there's a slight dumbing-down of the language.
A concerned yet witty cynic, the British artist John Isaacs exhibits five terse sculptures that look like one-liners but resonate beyond.
Compared with Kyuss, which proceeded slowly, drawing you in over the long haul, the new music of Queens of the Stone Age comes in short bursts, like one-liners.
A pleasant-looking man whose dark, pleading eyes suggest reserves of decency and a deep well of panic, Mr. Carell makes for a markedly different presence from Mr. Adams, a stand-up comic who delivered all his dialogue like one-liners and seemed two jokes and one unfastened brassiere away from a gig at the Playboy Mansion.
"On first impression, these beach houses seem like caricatures, one-liners," the architectural historian Alastair Gordon wrote in a 1999 New York Times profile of Mr. Geller, but "they represented a kind of everyman modernism that was both playful and accessible, with most houses costing less than $10,000".
Often the descriptions and language sound like cartoon one-liners.
I liked the smart one-liners that crept in: "You know there's no TV on during the day unless it's boring", "I don't give a rats ass what you do to me, Lady KGB", that fantastic exchange between Claudia and Elizabeth on the park bench.
Mr. Beane hired Mr. Colaizzo as his typist but eventually gave him a writing credit for churning out countless one-liners like "puttin' the sis back in Genesis".
Generally, I like either tomb-dry one-liners (Leonard Cohen), cheerful idiocy (Sir Mix-A-Lot) or unintentional hilarity (the Doors), and consider the work of Frank Zappa a black hole from which no mirth can escape.
But each time I'd leave a theatre, it was shellshock haunted by the one-liners like, "I am… Kazaam!" that followed him throughout his career.
Rashid was reduced to a bumbling caricature who couldn't grasp the subtle punchlines of sarcasm, and delivered bitingly witty one-liners like, " Pinocchio was my favourite movie growing up".
