Sentence examples for pointed riposte from inspiring English sources
Asked about the situation Friday, Rodriguez delivered a particularly pointed riposte that embodied his mature response to the entire situation.
Mr. Miller's proposals -- which were similar to proposals he made earlier this spring -- drew an unusually pointed riposte from the Bloomberg administration.
America will "ensure the sea lanes are secure, and the skies remain open" in the Pacific, the US vice-president, Joe Biden, has vowed in a pointed riposte to Chinese territorial ambitions in the South China Sea.
In a pointed riposte to the Israeli Cabinet's efforts to list various Palestinian obligations, Mr. Ross emphasized that "both sides have obligations and commitments, and both sides should fulfill them". Officials are concerned that the Palestinians will now produce their own list detailing Israeli obligations.
"Damn feminists are ruining everything!" The scene is writer Jason Aaron's pointed riposte to the uproar last summer when Marvel announced that the mantle of Thor would pass to a woman and some aggrieved male fans accused the company of pandering to political correctness.
As grasping Hollywood diva Havana Segrand, craving a comeback at whatever cost to others, Moore's performance isn't just the essential livewire of David Cronenberg's otherwise frostily mannered showbiz satire, but a pointed riposte to the institutional sexism that fosters gorgons like Segrand in the first place.
Meera Menon's conscientious financial-crisis thriller boasts a killer hook – placing women in the big boardroom chairs for a pointed feminist riposte to a spate of boorish Wall Street dramas – and a flinty lead in Anna Gunn, but there's a glazed, tentative hollowness to its depiction of an already glib environment.
With a lawn on its tilting fun-house roof, the whimsical Lincoln, done in collaboration with Fxfowle Architects, became an instant conversation piece around town, a pointed green-and-glass riposte to the endearing monotony and cold war pomposity of the center's stony, classicizing modernism.
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