Sentence examples for subtle riposte from inspiring English sources
This is a subtle riposte to the military junta's accusation that Mr Thaksin and his party do not respect the country's revered monarch, whose portrait is as omnipresent in the Isaan countryside as it is around Bangkok's royal palaces.
Marketed by National Airlines as the 'Sundrome', this light, elegant, calming and transparent building was a subtle riposte to Saarinen's swooping Terminal 5.
The political homecoming also served as a not-so-subtle riposte to Representative Michele Bachmann and other Republicans, who have been in Iowa regularly to hammer at his stewardship of the economy.
The political homecoming also served as a not-so-subtle riposte to Representative Michele Bachmann and other Republicans, who have been in Iowa regularly to hammer away at his stewardship of the economy.
For example, instead of answering Parry and Riposte with Compound Attack, a subtle fencer may make her next attack just out of distance, to allow time for a 'counter-parry and counter-riposte".
The riposte came swiftly.
That Eton riposte was superb.
