Sentence examples for riposte of from inspiring English sources

Yet amidst it all, he issued one riposte of lasting resonance.

Instead, he delivered a riposte of scrumptious snide and studied subtlety, forked tongue coated in caramel.

The argument that we cannot afford to spend more on these is so glaringly exposed by the simple riposte of our military prowess to interfere on other continents.

The following day, a riposte of sorts crackled on the sugar-white sands of Palawan as hundreds of American and Philippine Marines scurried from rubber dinghies and stormed into the adjacent jungle with machine guns blazing.

The riposte of the Central Powers was swifter than the progress of the invasion: Germany, Turkey, and Bulgaria declared war against Romania on August 28, August 30, and September 1, respectively; and Falkenhayn had plans already prepared.

That brought a nice riposte of "Where's your European Cups?" from the Kop, but on the pitch the home team were finding it difficult to fathom out what their opponents were scheming.

HDP and Syriza's joint surge into the political mainstream -- at a time of widespread uncertainty -- presents something of a riposte to the divisions of the past.

There are ripostes of a sort to that and England would have pulled level at the Free State Stadium had it not been for hapless officiating.

But in its place sits one of the great architectural ripostes of New York, a lugubriously postmodern but definitely Classical folly, a circular, roofless ring of masonry supported by pairs of columns.

Is it a kind of riposte to Sisman's shrewdly forensic anatomising of Le Carré's 80-something years?

You can see in this a bleak riposte to one of the greatest photographs of all time, Weegee's Crowd at Coney Island, 1940.