Sentence examples for smart patter from inspiring English sources

And there was Cole Porter of Peru (pronounced PEA-ru), Ind., who wrote jazz songs, and smart patter songs, and was also "a sentimental country boy who can tug on your heartstrings without any tricks at all".

Mr. Smith's tastes run toward traditional, elegant cabaret that puts a premium on smart patter and canny theatrical presentation and reveres the ghosts of Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Cole Porter and, above all, Mabel Mercer, who more or less invented the intimate cabaret style known as parlando and who died in 1984.

He speaks in a jaunty, clipped, wised-up vernacular, mixing street-smart patter with solid analysis.

The show is a series of quick changes connected by smart, funny patter that doesn't waste a remark.

A few hours later her contemporary Little Simz offers up a totally different vibe: British hip-hop with a fast and smart pitter-patter of lyrics.

Elizabeth Stamatina Fey grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Darby, in an environment in which she says snappy comebacks and smart-aleck patter came with the sunrise.

There he crosses paths with Jack Oscar Isaacc), a dodgy-looking drifter full of smart-aleck patter, cheeky biblical references and Shakespeare quotations.

Homes's dialogue drives a lot of the action – and she's very good at dehumanising sales patter, and smart, classic Hollywood-style rat-a-tat-tat exchanges.

Its transatlantic urban showbiz patter and smart literary patterns could have been just a jaded fast-lane bummer, a depleting ride in John Self's purple Fiasco – 'a vintage-style coupe with oodles of dash and heft and twang'.

"You're smarter than you talk!" He kept up the patter for nearly 19 minutes, firing a volley of deliberately provocative queries ("How much does it burn you that Mitt Romney, a guy who I am convinced is not deeply rooted in American history... beat you with money?") at Gingrich, and telling him that, if he'd just had more money, he would have beaten Romney.

It may be that much of the population knows Kors only as the witty and biting judge on "Project Runway". But all those aspirants would be smart to listen to the wisdom tucked between the charming patter.