Sentence examples for spirited remarks from inspiring English sources

The comments by Mr. Obasanjo, and similarly spirited remarks made by Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, were among the few flickers of controversy in a minutely planned diplomatic ballet as delegations from the leading industrial nations -- the United States, Japan, Britain, Italy, Canada, France, Germany -- joined delegates from Russia.

Her mean-spirited remarks about Jews a few years ago went beyond anything I remember her saying, and were shocking, but I believe her apology was sincere and heartfelt.

Nagging about the little things or making mean-spirited remarks could cause the situation to spiral out of control.

Their performance gave a powerful rebuttal to the mean-spirited remark "Teaching poetry to Detroit children is like fiddling while Rome burns" that a certain "Matthew" posted last fall on the PBS NewsHour website after U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey's "Where Poetry Lives" series spotlighted iO's work in Detroit.

Something that absurd, that kind of mean-spirited, absurd remark, you don't deal with – you don't try to deal rationally with stupid.

As Sam Roberts of The Times spoke with the spirited Rohatyn, Sam remarked, "Eighty used to be old".

Two years ago, he publicly described Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million tits!" We ask that you publicly repudiate Mr. Simpson's mean-spirited and bigoted remarks.

Romney seemed to flag after that, although his prepared closing remarks were spirited and well oiled.

Instead, Mr. Obama hugged and lavished attention on Senator Kennedy, who is fighting brain cancer and seemed physically tentative as he climbed onto the stage with his cane, but was spirited in his own remarks about passing on his brother's torch.

In a question-and-answer session after his remarks, he had a spirited exchange with a Head Start teacher about the financing and monitoring of that program.

In 1997, Hanophy was censured by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for making "undignified, discourteous and disparaging remarks" and being "mean-spirited" and "vituperative" during a sentencing.