"In time, anybody that wants to throw quick insults, they'll do it, and she'll keep going".
The Old Vera had been sharp-tongued, quick to insult, frequently cruel.
And with black culture placing a hefty premium on the quick, creative insult -- "playing the dozens" has always been high art -- it is no surprise that the disagreements have been highly personal.
Members of the news media have long sought a moment when Trump, a 70-year-old politician and entertainer seemingly set in his ways ― ever quick to insult, boast and exaggerate ― would suddenly "pivot" into a more subdued statesman.
Frontline workers suggested that the head of the hospital did not commend them for good work done, but was quick to reproach (insult) workers who made mistakes.
The PCA scores plots of the median metabolic time trajectory for these rats showed that these idiosyncratic responders recovered from the hydrazine insult quicker than the others.
An athlete, a suave dancer, a sharp dresser, a short-tempered brawler with a quick response to perceived insults or slights (including anti-Semitic ones), Luft was an easy schmoozer and fast-talker and deal-maker who, around age twenty, turned a gig as a stunt diver into an entrée into the gossip columns and some experience as a producer.
Shen says, "It is confusing to see why Park wouldn't denounce Malkin of all people," especially when Park is quick to fling around insults such as "anti-blackness, racism, sexism, homophobia [against]other organizers in the Asian-American community".
Playing a bar customer and the beer's mascot Wedgehead respectively, the pair fill the advert with a relentless barrage of quick-witted, inventive insults that they bat back and forth... all of which were apparently ad-libbed.
As for Mr. Murray, he plays Great Writer in the Hemingway-clone mode, quick to bellow, quick to insult, quick to defend the grandiosity of the artistic pursuit.
