Sentences with phrase «barbs as»

He treated the iconic characters, loaned out to him for a couple of expensive hours, like neurotic people, trading as many barbs as blows.

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.

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

Thursday capped a rhetorically lopsided campaign in which Egan repeatedly accused McCoy of promoting a culture of corruption and political intimidation in county government but in which McCoy largely ignored Egan except to dismiss the challenger's barbs as baseless and desperate.

The only downside that I can see is that you are sure to elicit a few stares and barbs as you continue to breastfeed your toddler but considering the numerous proven benefits, is it even worth worrying about what others think?

Lately, though, the little hamlet in the Finger Lakes region of New York has been catching barbs as well as bouquets.

Not exact matches

The two traded barbs for several months before finally reaching a convenient truce in time for Trump to sit down as the headlining guest of Kelly's first broadcast primetime special.

On Monday, The Washington Post published a blog post titled «Why Al Franken makes a weird amount of sense as a 2020 presidential candidate,» positing that the former Saturday Night Live cast member may be the candidate best suited to parlay Trump's barbs.

But Eisinger reserves his sharpest barbs for what he sees as the clubby culture that has emerged between the top levels of the Justice Department and white - collar defense lawyers.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have traded childish barbs, as if in a schoolyard fight.

The rhetoric and twitter - barbs from Trump regarding the potential to paint China as a currency manipulator, along with the Taiwan phone - call faux paus, continue to agitate the situation.

This church has many buildings as part of their complex, and ironically, as I was sitting there in my car, looking through the barb wire, the angle was perfect to see the name of this particular building.

It is just as effective as barb wire at keeping the animals in a certain area and out of others.

It is not good for any man to receive as many compliments to his face, as many barbs behind his back, as a minister usually gets.

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.

As I went over what I originally wrote David, I see, maybe, one NOT so «thinly - veiled barb.»

DENA G. SAID: «I may not (donâ $ ™ t) agree with you at all times and especially take umbrance at what I perceive as thinly - veiled barbs in the form of questions.

Dalahäst For a man known for his eloquence of wit, and clever verbal barbs you'd think that Jesus could have shamed them as easily as he did the Pharisees without resort to such violence.

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

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.

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He is Don Rickles as he barbs a couple of Clipper teammates in attendance, Johnny Carson as he delivers a few subtle double entendres and some harmless bathroom humor.

So there you have it, you can take this area of craft as far as you like, go collecting fleece from barb wire fences and hills and go through the whole process from cleaning, carding and spinning the yarn all by yourself.

Instead, both campaigns of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Republican rival Rob Astorino have traded barbs either through surrogates, TV commercials or in opposition research made to paint the other guy as corrupt.

Nor is it a chance to crowbar as many totally unrelated barbs about unions into every answer, as the prime minister seems to think.

The two campaigns have traded barbs in recent weeks over a controversial amortization plan that Wilson characterizes as borrowing from the pension fund and DiNapoli's camp insists is merely «smoothing» to provide predictability for local governments and the state when it comes to contributions.

That strikes me as a barb particularly directed at the lone Senator in the field, Eric Schneiderman, who so far hasn't said anything about Espada's predicament.

(In fact, the director of the state Democratic Party, Geoff Berman, has used the same line for both Republicans, referring to each of them separately as a Trump «mini-me,» indicating it might be high time for a new verbal barb).

What will he be thinking as the barbs and jibes start raining down on him once more?

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Taking Akshar's argument as a barb toward down - state NY, Senate Deputy Minority Leader Michael Gianaris of Queens [D] stepped in to respond,» [Manhattan] gives the Senate the luxury to spread money to parts of the state that need more help.»

Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn denies she meant her barb at Cynthia Nixon on Tuesday as an attack on the new gubernatorial candidate's sexual identity.

They threw a few barbs at each other, and one managed to draw harsh condemnation afterwards for a comment involving Mayor de Blasio's wife, but they mostly tried to push past each other as they sought audience and press attention.

While the chairman couldn't help but note during his speech that the Brooklyn portion of the district went for GOP Rep. Bob Turner (interpreted by some as a barb aimed at the borough's Democratic boss, Assemblyman Vito Lopez), Crowley insisted the race is «over,» adding: «We'll move forward... quite frankly, at this point, it's not that big of a deal anymore.»

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) engaged in a nasty, lone radio debate in her Democratic primary against upstart Reshma Saujani on Tuesday morning, in which the two traded barbs — but managed to up the ante after the event, as the incumbent literally fled from reporters and the challenger said she might not vote in the general election if she loses.

The campaigns of Kaminsky and his Republican opponent, Chris McGrath, traded barbs today over debates and responding to corruption as the race for Skelos» seat enters its final phase.

As the union's executive board prepares to meet at the start of December, supporters and opponents of PEF President Wayne Spence are once again trading barbs and launching inquiries against one another.

In the late summer of 2017, few Democrats are welcome at Conservative Headquarters as Lorigo trades barbs with his Democratic counterpart — Jeremy Zellner.

Todd Kaminsky and Christopher McGrath traded barbs Sunday over debates and responses to corruption as the race for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat enters its final phase.

The debate focused less on the comptroller's duties, and more on character bashing (though their barbs still weren't as nasty or personal as the Post's average «Love Gov» cover).

Five minutes into the debate, barbs were already flying, with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer saying Spitzer was a «colossal failure» as a governor and pointing to Spitzer's prostitution scandal that ultimately led to his 2008 resignation.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Bill de Blasio in particular was the target of several barbs Wednesday evening, as seven Democratic mayoral candidates went head - to - head in their third debate.

Forest Hills lawyer Juan Reyes and City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park) exchanged barbs last week as both camps continued gearing up for the Republican Party primary set for this September.

Their structure suggests that the two finest tiers of branching in modern feathers, known as barbs and barbules, arose before a rachis formed.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

Then, as a sapling, its leaves grow into footlong spears with tiny barbs along the edge.

With its implication of personal failure and social dysfunction, few childhood barbs burn quite so deeply as «Quitter.»

The bee's stinger evolved originally for inter-bee combat between members of different hives, and the barbs evolved later as an anti-mammal defense: a barbed stinger can still penetrate the chitinous plates of another bee's exoskeleton and retract safely.

The pale, tiny fish with long, whiskerlike barbs sprouting from its head (above) is a new species of loach, as yet unnamed.

As feathers continued to change, they developed tufts, barbs, branching features, little hooks, and more.