Sentence examples for witty riposte from inspiring English sources

He is charmless, with an alarming inability to come up with a witty riposte.

But let's backtrack, shake off the sadness and revisit the life that led to that witty riposte to tradition.

But I would generally advise against retaliation: critics are writers and if you say something on impulse, they've got all the time in the world to think of some witty riposte.

One of the earliest late Dalís here is "Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone" from 1938, a lush, witty riposte to Picasso's "Guernica," as well as a technical tour de force of scratching and rubbing through black paint laid over white.

This collection is a perfect, witty riposte to that casual dismissal, and a lesson in how much goes on beneath the surface of everyday life; through a series of interwoven narratives, Infidelities explores the unspoken betrayals of those who, either suddenly or over time, find themselves leading lives of dissatisfaction or quiet desperation from which they seem unable to break free.

Can't come up with a witty riposte of your own?

He thought that what experts wrote in response lacked rigour (see his witty ripostes to questions, and assertions, by outraged readers).

It's been so long since our last live-blog that Ms Green in Austin has taken to yelling witty ripostes at infomercials.

It's not the first sign of his own sense of humour – after being a figure of open scorn for some years, the singer has recently gone through a dramatic reputational rehabilitation thanks to his witty ripostes to Twitter critics.

The three novels—"Don't Point That Thing At Me", "After You With the Pistol" and "Something Nasty in the Woodshed"—work together as one big romp, stuffed with witty ripostes, baked custard and the best descriptions of a hangover this side of Kingsley Amis.

Known for his witty ripostes to analysts and journalists, Mr. Gilmour often made headlines during his first stint as C.F.O. in the early 1990's, and was one of a number of well-known finance specialists who turned the job into more than a refuge for bean counters.