Sentences with phrase «bon mot»

Still, I'm going to assume that the emphasized phase shows that the writer - author of this bon mot has been in court recently.

To you, muse who / rocked the brains of / so many of my heroes / You a hero too / for wise quip bon mot and / panoramic eye

• Master of the bon mot Strange de Jim says that when the doorknob of a Starbucks came off in the hands of another customer in search of coffee, de Jim observed, «Wow!

And every bon mot that Bill (take your pick, there are a multitude of them) or Steve or Michael or Bob drops in a print or televised interview is latched on to as a reaffirmation the genius and insight to invest early on with one of The Anointed.

There's a great bon mot from the transcendentalist author — «The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.»

Vivian is more interested in Cybil and Harvey (Mary Steenburgen and Paul Reiser), who have been married for far too long and can't have a simple lunch without spewing venom at each other (Bell has a gift for the bon mot, but her clever dialogue makes all the characters talk alike).

Rockwell again dances a line between hapless dope and demented genius, almost like a Walken 2.0 as he utters an indelibly hard - boiled bon mot: «I didn't mean to break his nose.

If that's your idea of a bon mot, you're probably not ready to trade barbs with a peeved Peter Parker or Robert Downey Jr. «s high - rolling Tony Stark.

In fact the only bon mot came from a fellow who is asked how he happened to have 9 kids.

During my training years, I worked with a surgical resident who had been a star athlete at a large southern university, and he seemed to have a down - home Carolina bon mot for every clinical occasion.

HORSE RACING — BON MOT, a 3 - year - old colt owned by F. W. Burmann of England, won Europe's richest horse race, the $ 351,612 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, by half a length over Sigebert (page 78).

Had Schleiermacher begun here and unpacked this instead of tossing it off as a tantalizing bon mot, his work would have been truly revolutionary.

The bon mot of Chesterton applies quite well: «There is no history: There are only historians.»

We can derive some comfort from George Bernard Shaw's bon mot, «The last Christian died on the cross,» for there is a certain absolution in realizing that we all fall pitifully short.

Last week a week's supply sold out in two days at a Whole Foods in North California, and as Grist.org points out: «Maybe you don't think you WANT a better fake meat, but you probably thought you didn't want a social network that let you transmit 140 - character bon mots, either.»

The made - for - TV photo - op had everything — the ceremonial presentation of the offending club from The Donald, a few jocular bon mots from the tourney host that played more to the crowd ringing the area than to McIlroy, and the guys in the Golf Channel booth providing the requisite laugh track.

In addition, let's say a coach really does get the ref to pay attention, and really gets under the official's skin with a series of well - timed bon mots — «I've seen better eyes on potatoes,» for example.

Who knows what chaos will happen when hoards of people around the world are simultaneously adding their bon mots to the evolving work?

Lead investigator Jason Hawes, founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, not only looks like and has the same day job as Samuel «Joe the Plumber» Wurzelbacher but carries himself with the same air of surly distrust, as if suspicious that the whole world might be encoded with hilarious bon mots at the expense of his sister.

Last year, he whipped up a map of the United States using 19 million online dating profiles — analyzing which cities were the kinkiest and happiest based on frequently used bons mots (Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Park Slope had the most male virgins).

Makeovers, party planning, dance - offs, dropping vintage bon mots as if they were bonbons.

However, the execution of their duties varied radically, since Batman tended to be rather serious and grim while the web - swinger always tossed out delightful bon mots as he bopped the baddies.

At least he looks the part and gamely delivers Wilde's familiar bons mots.

However, the execution of their duties varied radically, since Batman tended to be rather serious and grim while the web - swinger always tossed in delightful bon mots as he bopped the baddies.

Despite one shocking revelation (if you don't know the play) and the handful of Wildean bon mots that make it into Howard Himelstein's screenplay (says Lord Darlington, «Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people; sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load»), «A Good Woman» goes nowhere handsomely.

So when the B - grade bon mots start flying, it's the moral equivalent of a relatively gory but unspectacular beheading from a serial killer.

Luckily, Francis rebounded over at Warner Bros., a company much more in tune with her special style of earthy glamour, and though she was never the lead female, she excelled in such delightful pre-code bon mots as Smart Money (1931), in which she is a faithless blonde helping Edward G. Robinson lose his bankroll, and Blonde Crazy (1931), where her target is the irrepressible James Cagney.

Howard Himelstein's script retains many of Wilde's bons mots, which are witty enough to amuse any generation, while transposing the action from the two London drawing rooms in which the original «Fan» unfolded to the far more appealing backdrop of Amalfi's Mediterranean coastline.

Dialogue whips past in huge, devastating chunks, dense with pop - culture quotes, literary allusions, legal and financial jargon, elaborate and often profane metaphors... and a ton of brutal bon mots... The pacing and writing reflect the culture of its characters.

Julian Mitchell's script freely doles out all kinds of pithy, self - conscious bon mots among its cast, but doesn't bother to flesh out convincingly the emotional conflicts and dramas in which the characters find themselves.

(Give Stone a few wisecracks and she can always run with them; the actress hasn't had this many bon mots since Basic Instinct 2.)

But its bon mots have always been along the lines of an animated corpse shouting «I'll swallow your soul!»

Sally Potter's «The Party» is an atmospheric, rapid - fire dark comedy about a celebratory dinner party where unexpected revelations come as quickly as bon mots.

Cutting into each other's answers, fielding each other's questions, and trading favorite Onion headlines, they seem close as kin — a product, perhaps, of spending a few weeks firing bon mots for the director of Kicking And Screaming.

Gilliam and his co-screenwriters (an uncredited Charles Alverson (Jabberwocky), Charles McKeown and most famously, Tom Stoppard worked on it on and off over six years) stuff the film with subversive bon mots, furiously paced slapstick and sight gags, and the blackest of humour — it is at once thrilling and hilarious.

At the same time, after three years, the core characters are just as enjoyable, to say nothing of their savage bon mots, so perhaps a little indulgence would be just fine.

The history of the 13th Amendment necessarily comes with a large cast, and Spielberg turns many of his antagonists into grimacing faces and occasional bon mots without ever touching on their motivations or making them into people.

Mistress America, however, lacks the emotional pull of While We're Young; it's a looser but more disposable entertainment, and while Gerwig and Baumbach remain masters at penning hilarious bon mots, they've failed to supply their joke - machine narrative with the kind of prickly, complicated characters that occupy the director's best work.

Blame Kruger, who writes the most insipid non-Akiva Goldsman scripts in Hollywood, cobbling together creaky bon mots and every dusty cliché in the book with a shameless avarice.

Allen's screen character (and here's where his undisputed verbal talents undermine him) is too much, too often, and too selfconsciously the cynical verbal sophisticate to credibly commit itself to the naïve physicality that slapstick and prop comedy demand: a mouth full of bons mots and a body full of anarchy have problems coexisting organically in a single comic presence.

Talking - heads with Wong, Yam, and Fok are discursive and occasionally bizarre — Yam is almost incomprehensible and Wong offers his little Franco-esque bon mots about how movies are, essentially, for idiots, which sounds like something that an idiot would say.

Again, it's endlessly charming and funny, but has a lot of texture underneath the zaniness and the bevy of classic bon mots.

His ability to toss off bon mots is less smooth as smug, often peppered with some ill - advised mugging and other sorts of physical gags.

Palahniuk is quite a character; he indiscreetly names specific names for his characters» real - life analogues (which, in one instance, had to be bleeped out) and tosses off such bon mots as praising Bonham Carter's «fucked - up Lucille Ball quality.»

The quick - witted bon mots, and the juvenile gags still hold much of the humor and relatable adolescent burnish they always did, and I'm pretty sure I'll be trotting this one out every Halloween for a laugh, and a gushing grin for forever and a day.

That's fitting since the screenplay comes from Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who seem to have an ample supply of bon mots for the actor.

Packed with the frightfully clever bon mots of Oscar Wilde, A Good Woman can not help but entertain, and yet Mike Barker's adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan is a bit of a cheat.

He offers stories and offers opinions, slags a few people and ideas, and expresses varied regrets, bon mots and tangents along the way.

This 1984 concoction is one of writer / director / star Woody Allen's most enjoyable diversions, jam - packed with bon mots such as «Don't forget to do «My Funny Valentine» with the special lyrics about the moon landing.»

In fact, he's often better in comedic roles (Pain & Gain) than in his more serious fare (San Andreas), as the seeming disconnect between his hulking form and perfect delivery of bon mots makes the laughs that follow doubly special.