Sentence examples for quick quips from inspiring English sources

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She inveighs against feminism and "women who make the world worse" in quick quips.

Mr. Bloomberg had been there before and had traded a few quick quips, Mr. Letterman pointed out, but never for a full interview in the guest's chair.

In Britain he is known as a tabloid chancer, yet in America his English vowels and quick quips can turn him into a charming wit.

North Carolina's Dexter Strickland, then paired in the backcourt with Boyle, listened to his teammate's quick quips at Mario's Pizzeria around the corner from the school, and said, "I'd pay money just to hear you talk".

Most New York gatherings have a therapeutically zestful critical perspective that generates quick quips, perky persiflage and instant analysis of the facial expressions of the nominees when they are shown on the four-way split screen while a giggling presenter struggles to open an envelope.

When you enter Lipah's shop, the self-proclaimed "Bavarian lederhosen king" will likely offer you a beer, reaching into the fridge at the back of the store for a bottle of weiss or dunkel, giving potential customers a dose of Bavarian hospitality as he offers quick quips and outrageous stories, like the time he drove from Germany to Iran wearing nothing but lederhosen the whole way.

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Blair, remember, was master of the quick quip, which could disarm an opponent, or better still, appear self-deprecatory, in order to win public sympathy.

The truth is that Boris may be the master of the quick quip and the funny photo op but he is, fundamentally, out of touch; uninterested in the plight of those who don't look, sound or live like him and his fellow millionaires.

Willing to look past his ridiculously perverse profile and the long drive, you holler back with a quick quip.

No uplift, no patriotic patois, no morning in America — not even a quick quip broke up the sequential references to a country falling apart at the seams.

The cast is terrific and LaBute knows his way around dialogue, favoring the quick quip and jackhammer cadence made famous by David Mamet.

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