Sentences with phrase «barbs at»

Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continue to throw barbs at one another in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with the latter branding previous remarks made by Cook as «extremely glib».

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.

Casting Dennis Leary as Gwen's Police Chief dad works as Leary and Garfield exchange barbs at the table.

Written under the headline «««Three Billboards» Is a Wannabe Coen Brothers Bag of Dumb Jokes,» Reed's review is chock full of cheap barbs at writer / director Martin McDonagh, whom he says «labors under the delusion that he's a movie director.»

The girls» barbs at each other are as pointed as any of the killer's weapons.

He opens by dishing some racial barbs at audience members and goes back to that well throughout.

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.

Sure, there were a few clunkers in there (and one joke he recycled from Meryl Streep's speech last year), but his barbs at the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were doozies, and it culminated in a fun gag between him and Amy Poehler that involved reclaiming her wine and putting an end to mansplaining.

There are self - conscious barbs at social media and literary phoneys which will no doubt make the movie age about as well as 1995 Sandra Bullock vehicle, The Net.

In fact, he hardly responded to the barbs at all, instead choosing to float above the fray.

ALBANY — Aiming a new set of angry barbs at Washington, Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned on Tuesday that state lawmakers may need to return to Albany before the end of the year to address deep cuts to federal health care funding.

The First Secretary of State made a number of barbs at the last person to hold thew same position - who has stood down from Parliament to run the Evening Standard

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.

He took his trademark barbs at Consensus, calling its supporters «apologists» and offering some glib comments about «Syradaga» and «Ononcuse.»

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.

A few weeks after they traded barbs at a mayoral candidates forum, Massey and Faulkner traded endorsements.

Regardless, both elects stuck to their beliefs and threw a few barbs at each other (Dromm's is the most memorable at the end, you bum).

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon on Tuesday delivered a rebuttal at the 118th annual LCA Show in Albany, poking fun at herself and throwing some barbs at Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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.

A girl at your daughter's lunch table is aiming some petty barbs at her.

And then we shoot barbs at each other, trying to prove who is right and who is wrong.

If it's her, I love that she had to jump in the fray to toss her own barb at the official.

That's either supreme irony or a pointed barb at the recap community; either way, it has my utmost respect.

Mourinho issued a veiled barb at his misfiring strike force, notably Diego Costa and Eden Hazard, in insisting the Blues» predicament is not his sole responsibility.

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.

Not exact matches

While the Victoria Times Colonist called for a review of gas prices, the NDP and Conservatives trading barbs over the differing party approaches to pain at the pump.

Stewart aimed his barbs less at conservative pols than at the Fox News pundits who enabled them.

Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.

So far the Apple v. FBI debate has played out at the very highest level, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and FBI Director James Comey trading public barbs on the whether privacy trumps national security or vice versa.

These comments have included criticism of former Hewlett - Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's face, constant barbs thrown at Fox News» Megyn Kelly, and retweeting an attack on Ted Cruz's wife.

And oh did we ever aspire: the tax cuts were bigger and tastier than we could have imagined; the torch - carrying to further enrich US entertainment companies made us laugh and cry; the barbs thrown at Dalton (the boy can't take a joke); the raid on Conservative Party headquarters.

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

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.

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.

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.

Brown was always the coach's coach, a guy seemingly born with a piece of chalk in his hand, a defensive drill at his fingertips and a barb on his tongue.

Tht barb's aimed at you and nobody else!!

Thompson's war was between working and stay - at - home moms, and I certainly witnessed this struggle within my own family - my mom stayed at home, my aunt was a successful professional, and there was a constant stream of subtle barbs about who'd made the superior choice.

Bruno scoffed at criticism that the Cuomo administration lacks transparency, and was particularly dismissive of barbs tossed at the governor by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer (Bruno's one - time political nemesis).

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.

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.

Nixon's comments are the latest in a string of barbs she's hurled at Cuomo since announcing her campaign on March 19.

After trading barbs with Mayor Bill de Blasio about conditions at NYCHA in recent weeks, Cuomo challenged de Blasio, the City Council and the state Legislature to guide him on how to remedy conditions at NYCHA within two weeks — or said he would take action on his own.

But her most brutal barb was aimed at David Cameron's former communications chief Sir Craig Oliver:

Mahoney and Antonacci traded barbs, and at one point, according to Syracuse.com, Antonacci threatened to sue Mahoney over an allegation that she conspired with a man who planned to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the comptroller and the county.

(CNN)- Kentucky's two U.S. Senate candidates traded pithy barbs Saturday at a dual campaign stop in the midst of a race with national implications.

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.»

There's also a nice line about Cameron laughing approvingly at Lord Oakeshott's barb that George Osborne was a «work experience chancellor».

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