Sentence examples for quips of a from inspiring English sources

These are not the we-don't-really-mean-it caricature quips of a Hollywood roast.

"Kitchen Diaries" (2006) and "Notes from the Larder" (2012) — which were originally published in Slater's native U.K. — are both arranged in the manner of a journal, and are both marked by the capricious turns and mordant quips of a private, personal account.

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He speaks by turns in quips of a businessman, a director, a bigot, an abuser, and a louse who's aware he's a louse, with a kind of dumbass honesty that spins the whole thing with such a strange layer you almost forget that this is real.

Teitoku brought dignity to the comic renga and made it a demanding medium, rather than the quip of a moment.

The much-repeated quip of a German politician in response to the February election of Grillo and Berlusconi suggests commedia dell'arte: "Two Clowns".

"I haven't seen the play but I've read the title," as journalist Alan Brien once quipped of a work by Peter Weiss; and, in Kushner's case, his title contains an obvious allusion to Shaw's Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, as well as to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.

Here are some of his quips: "[A politician visiting China] rang [the Socialist PM Bettino] Craxi and said: 'Listen.

When May was initially asked if Clarkson was innocent, he quipped: "Of being a knob?

He was a cornucopia of quips, a symphony of soundbites.

Christgau cited "Book of Rhymes" and "Get Down" as highlights and quipped, "confessions of a mama's boy, tales of a hustler, lies of a mortal man".