Sentences with phrase «common retort»

«I've got nothing to hide» is a common retort from people who are blasé about privacy.

«A Problem Has Occured» is a common retort of software programs, whose laconic persona uses the passive voice to mask intent.

«It doesn't matter what you do, we've got God on our side», a fairly common retort from a Liverpool fan in the mid to late nineties.

My community is full of professional artists and musicians, and when I suggest we compensate them for their work, the most common retort from my co-workers is, «Well, where do we stop?»

Or another common retort, «We just don't have the connections outside of the Bay Area to be helpful to you.»

A common retort by the industry is that rates of the health outcome studied - whether it's asthma or preterm birth - are lower in fracking areas than in areas without fracking, or that the rate of the outcome is decreasing over time.

Not exact matches

Encouragement and genuine common interests do far more to bind people together than a clever retort or coded comment ever could.

This scripture was horribly twisted and has been standardized as a common anti-nomian retort.

You've probably heard it before, but that's because it's a black and blue honest retort to the common fear among females of bulking up: Females do not have the same amount of testosterone (the muscle building hormone) as males.

This could one day be a retort as common as getting leafy greens or your multivitamin.

Phantom Thread is essentially a smart - ass retort to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), repeating Hitchcock's basic plot of a psychotic male making over a common girl (James Stewart selfishly «correcting» Kim Novak) into his erotic ideal.