Sentences with word «barb»

This can't be the same college student / aerospace engineer I had the pleasure of trading barbs with the other day....

Hugh Laurie took aim at him after winning for his role in The Night Manager and host Jimmy Fallon aimed a number of barbs at the US election winner.

The lawmakers, all members of the Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, have at various points traded barbs with Bratton.

Town Supervisor William Chase and Highway Superintendent Mark Siskavich traded barbs at last week's public hearing and special meeting on the town's tentative 2018 budget.

After trading verbal barbs in their third and final debate last night, the two presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — will try to play nice at the Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan tonight, 301 Park Ave., Manhattan.

It's a stream of barbs over debates, crowd estimates and ad wars.

As one reviewer mentioned, it is not easy to get at the crab meat, especially without scraping yourself with barbs on the shells.

Fisher kept calm and offered tempered responses to a handful of barbs from Antonacci during the presentation.

There is another reason for Wenger to want his rival to stay in charge at Stamford Bridge as well, however, and this is on a more personal note, because the prof must have been loving all the suffering that his serial taunter was going through and was probably looking forward to a few well chosen verbal barbs aimed at the special one.

The Las Vegas couple's bliss proves to be short - lived, though, as barbs about his egg physique and her unshaven legs as well as bidirectional accusations of infidelity fly, causing the two to «bust up.»

A dark comedy with as many barbs as points, Zero Motivation is a delicious and original vision, percolating with purpose.»

She takes especial pleasure from throwing barbs at the daughter of a scout volunteer, who gets it worse for daring to think that it might be a bad idea to have a convicted felon run a business that depends on child labor.

Last week, Trump accepted an invitation to meet with Kim by May, although it has yet to be arranged The two leaders have exchanged barbs in the past over North Korea's nuclear program.

I was driving through town the other day, and noticed that a large local church has recently put up a huge fence with barb wire on top of it.

The sharpest barbs for Mr. Grimm came from Mr. Recchia's surrogates.

Ramis» was no small feat — he had crafted a thing of jet black social commentary that sang out with sharp barbs of comedy.

These two Bennetts are a virtual married couple — arguing over Ms. Shepherd, and jabbing each other with barbs aimed directly at known emotional weaknesses.

The backward facing barbs on their tongues make it nigh impossible for them to retch, or spit, the string back out.

Ines exhausting and demanding job is emblematic of women in the workforce writ large, and Ade's many pointed barbs at corporate culture makes for studious social satire with a thirst - quenching feminist tilt to it.

What's more, the Russos understand, as Joss Whedon does, that the Marvel universe is really just one big dysfunctional family — an extended ensemble of big personalities, trading as many barbs as blows.

Rosy barbs also exhibit external differences easily identified even by beginners.

Still, the shiftless slacker returns their stinging barbs by telling his overweight mother - in - law «You look like Idi Amin with a propeller on his head.»

Except for a few barbs exchanged with Ford, she is basically a spectator to the conflict between him and McAdams.

I see very few movies that express an emotion with such intensity, or set their uncanny images like barbs in your brain.

Republican leaders traded more barbs over the future of the Queens GOP Party this week in the wake of a wide - ranging bribery scandal.

That is because their tongues are actually covered by tiny barbs which are perfect for removing dirt and other debris from their coats.

The political feud continued with more barbs between the two sides after Cuomo's press conference Thursday.

In one battle, they've had to put up with little barbs from players and fans of Auburn, a team that lost four games.

His style of humor is acerbic, self - conscious and somewhat absurd, and in trying to channel his straight - faced barbs into a cutesy rom - com with adorable actors, nothing seems harmonious enough to evoke the requisite chuckles or affection for the characters and their plights.

Even the most direct barbs — «You have got to be kidding me» (Sean Duffy of Wisconsin); «I can't believe some of what I'm hearing here» (Gregory Meeks of New York)-- failed to shake him awake.

Some are on steep trails, rocks, over walls, and through barb wire.

Genuine acceptance: I may not (don't) agree with you at all times and especially take umbrance at what I perceive as thinly - veiled barbs in the form of questions.

According to the researchers, the lip mucus probably serves a double purpose, forming a seal on the coral's surface while shielding the fish from stinging barbs known as nematocysts.

If you're an intelligent viewer who relishes hearing smart people bounce thoughts and barbs off one another - if you like the Aaron Sorkin thing, basically - you're going to eat this up.

Here, a feather barb within Late Cretaceous Canadian amber shows some indication of original coloration.

And, finally, those backward - facing barbs help remove dead hair from the cat's coat.

The duo's songs for Greatest Showman don't feel like traditional show tunes: For the most part, they're radio - styled inspirational pop ballads with driving beats and soaring hooks that drive their feel - good barbs into your brain.

Valerie, in a lengthy article full of barbs targeted at both the former President Rawlings and Martin Amidu said the former should resign from the party because he had «become a so - called crusader, sinking lower and lower in the NDC as he seems to rise higher in the NPP.»

«I think that's what New Yorkers care about... That's what we should be talking about not who has some kind of marginally more or arguably less progressive record dating back to some political barbing back and forth.»

A bunch of agents, objecting to a keynote speech by author Barry Eisler, set off a swarm of nasty Twitter barbs against Mr. Eisler during his presentation.

Fellow Democrats don't know what Cuomo was thinking when he launched his sharpest barb yet at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — over the issue of government corruption.

Papillae are tiny hair - like barbs made of keratin, and they help cats groom their fur, and they aid in eating.

Over the past few weeks, the campaigns have exchanged several barbs.

With General Growth and Simon Property Group toning down their public barbs for a while (as General Growth works on its reorganization plan), the retail real estate universe has been relatively quiet this week.

«I'm going to leave you to do a little bit of simple research about why the transit workers union would so conveniently be attacking us, and who they respond to,» said Hizzoner, who traded barbs last week with Cuomo over the agency.

Confrontation between villagers (led by a group of women) and private security forces took place in a day full of dramatic episodes: from villagers resisting bulldozers and removing barb - wire fences with tractors, to a tragicomical message from the local authorities telling villagers to «keep the dead trees until we figure out what to do next».

Longtime rival Carl Icahn got in on the long side soon after, and the two have traded barbs back and forth since.

If and when he gets injured, the muppets will be out in force slinging barbs against AW for not rotating...

Though barbs bounce off it like giant lizards off a Wakandan force field, one criticism has stuck: that the studio is loath to kill off characters with the potential to generate revenue ad infinitum, which means that nothing ever seems at stake except skyscrapers assembled from ones and zeros.