Sentence examples for sourly remarked from inspiring English sources

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When World War I broke out, Sigmund Freud, commenting on the shock and despair occasioned by the descent into barbarism, sourly remarked that humankind had never risen as high as had been believed.

The late art critic Robert Hughes once sourly remarked: "The only thing the market liked better than a hot young artist was a dead hot young artist, and it got one in Jean-Michel Basquiat".

As one cynical commentator sourly remarked: "I sometimes think that when adolescents addicted to computer games grow up they become counter-insurgency experts".

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("I read Glenarvon too, by Caro Lamb, Byronn remarked sourly after it was sent to him on the Continent. "God damn").

"A tree might be a show in Scotland, as a horse in Venice," Dr Johnson remarked sourly in 1773.

"The b went past me as if I were a double-decker bus," one rider remarked sourly after his mount, no slouch, had received the full Arkle treatment near the finish: "He'd have won with the whole Taaffe family on his back". "There wasn't anything I could do," said another hard-bitten professional.

When the recording ended, he remarked slightly sourly: 'I think that's the last time I'm ever going to talk about Citizen Kane.' I told him, quite sincerely, that I'd rather have been talking to him about his own work.

"Hoity!" Kilroy remarked.

"Not ideal," Mullick remarked.

"Shit," Scruggs remarked.

"Oucheroo," she remarked.

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