Sentences with word «badinage»

We learned, for instance, in a bit of badinage with the locals reeling in their nets that real fishermen never sit down in their boats — that's for old men or wimps.

The pratfalls, the double takes, the slow burns, the fast burns, the inspired magpie badinage between Gus and his dim - bulb accomplice Murray — Leary hits one after another dead on.

But it's also a film of often sensuous beauty, and in stretches, a surprisingly funny one too, as when the Dickinson sisters exchange brittle badinage with their witty friend Miss Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey)-- sequences in which the Dickinson residence in Amherst really does become a House of Mirth.

Counsel: I'm endeavouring to make a submission, not to engage with your Lordship in badinage of that kind.

«Ha, so long as it wasn't all some illusion of the devil,» he said, with typical German badinage of the rather crude kind.

It began: «Dear Goat, don't butt me», and after much badinage it got down to serious matters; but such exchanges were the small change of the public scene, half entertainment.

But there was nothing like the unchecked badinage I heard in the kitchen at Mina's house, the meaningless spats dissipating into cackling laughter.

Now that Po and the Furious Five (Angelina Jolie's tough Tigress, Jackie Chan's Monkey, Seth Rogen's Mantis, Lucy Liu's Viper and David Cross» Crane) are buddies in sync, there's a bit of badinage about the temple dojo but little time is wasted on auld lang syne.

The buddy - buddy badinage between Ray and Ken is sometimes amusing thanks to the rapport between the two actors.

That relatively - light badinage stands in sharp contrast with his being mercilessly roughed up by the police who resort to water boarding and electric shocks in quest of a confession.

This go round, the intellectual badinage has been minimized to make way for a flurry of visually - captivating action sequences.

This is all done to a soundtrack of lightning - fast badinage and a brilliant soundtrack straight from the era.

There are a couple of CGI shots that look a little plasticky, the director's TV background is noticeable in his occasionally mundane choice of camera angles and the action might be undercut with humour a little too often, but these minor niggles are more than countered with some first - rate fight dynamics, effortlessly pithy badinage and top - drawer performances.

There are moments of respite between the big battles, and that's when Whedon can give us his trademark badinage.

This sparks some contentious badinage between them.

- Publishers Weekly «To compensate for the absence of plot complications, realistic dialogue or suspense, the meals sound great, the ebullient badinage is genuinely witty and Mayle wears his considerable knowledge of the area lightly.»

Political and social commentary was a constant thread throughout Polke's oeuvre referencing Germany's Nazi era in his early career with a sense of badinage, and sly wit not matched by fellow artist Anselm Kiefer — through «abstract» swastika's and the haunting series of Watch Towers from the mid-80s which evoke the structures on the perimeters of concentration camps, with the juxtaposition of a drab Warhol-esque finish.

Thesaurus ridicule noun she was subjected to ridicule mockery, derision, laughter, scorn, scoffing, contempt, jeering, sneering, sneers, jibes, jibing, teasing, taunts, taunting, badinage, chaffing, sarcasm, satire; informal kidding, ribbing, joshing, goofing, razzing.

Oh I live the badinage back n forth of the blog based on your interaction with the sis even more than the cookies.

He can't seem to get any sympatico with this pop mythos; the only sparkle comes in some of the badinage between Superman and Luthor.

Co-written by Wheatley with his wife, Amy Jump, «Free Fire» is full of stinging verbal parries and thrusts (at one point someone asks Ord to distract another character with his «badinage»), but eventually the dialogue gives way simply to the sound of bullets flying with deranged desperation.

It's an intelligent piece of thriller engineering, oiled with»70s style and some wonderful lines (mostly spoken by Copley, who has a field day with phrases such as «badinage» and «redeem yourself»).

What I do enjoy, though, is the friendship, badinage, and loyalty shared by our heroes.

A great deal is left to the wisdom of the courts to draw sensible lines between the ordinary banter and badinage of life and generally offensive and unacceptable behaviour.»