Sentences with phrase «aleck voice»
He climbed out of the pool and rubbed his eyes, which were red with chlorine, and said in a very loud, smart - aleck voice, like I had when I was his age: «They used this chlorine on the Germans in World War I and news they're using it on us!»
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There is some actual meat to the scenes between the two, as, from his professor, the egotistical, young «smart aleck» learns about the balance of the author's voice with an actual story, the humility of rejection, and that being a writer means a devotion that doesn't always result in success.