Sentence examples for tart language from inspiring English sources

There is some tart language.

Rove unrepentantly employs tart language and occasionally selective facts when assailing his targets, even as elsewhere he criticizes those very weapons when used by his adversaries.

It is divided between fluff — an "About Town" section offers extensive coverage of parties and premieres — and substantive, reported features with tart language like "Coroner's Report," an examination of a movie that flopped.

In the part of his opinion joined by only three others -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. -- Justice Scalia used language tart even by his standards to deride Justice Breyer's failure to discuss whether there can be judicial takings.

The pungent harmonic language is tart and captivating.

The harmonic language combines tart modern, milky Impressionist sonorities with echoes of modal French sacred music from earlier times.

That high-altitude news conference underscored what many Republicans say are Mr. Bush's greatest strengths as a campaigner: his sunny persona, his humor and his ability to cloak tart retorts in genial language.

No one did smart and tart like the legendary language maven and pundit, who inspired countless scribes and speechwriters (like myself) during his 40 years in public life before passing away in September.

Sex, for another: the two most prominent female characters in the show are prostitutes, or tarts ("taaarts"), in the language of the time.

With unusually dismissive language, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered tart assessments of his potential presidential rivals at a news conference on Wednesday, suggesting they are offering meaningless bromides rather than serious answers to the problems confronting the country.

His language is far too tart, incisive and economical for that.