Sentences with phrase «drew guffaws»

The commissioner drew guffaws and some heckles from the crowd when, in response to Councilman Corey Johnson's questions, he said chokeholds are not illegal and would not support legislation to make them illegal.

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«The grandeur of politics» — a phrase that probably draws either amazed incredulity or harsh guffaws — is from George F. Will's Statecraft as Soulcraft, first presented as his Godkin lectures at Harvard.

His reply drew a few guffaws from the gallery, but in Minnesota, home of the salt truck, the world's largest open - pit iron mine and the only governor to have mastered the sleeper hold, that sort of repartee would have had»em rolling in the snowbanks.

Though many of its grossest moments draw groans rather than guffaws, and a few yawns, Sweetest is occasionally and audaciously funny.

While a scene in which Mark gets laxatives slipped into his drink draws out the sure guffaws for those who titter at bathroom humor, that scene is also the last laugh to be had for most of the viewing audience, who will likely grow impatient for the next 30 minutes wondering when the next big gag is going to come into play.

The elderly YBAs were embarrassing: 20 years of rude, crude, eye - poking penises and breasts from Sarah Lucas drew gritted laughter from adults and outright guffaws from kids at the Whitechapel.

That people are so desperate to control the discourse that they have to dictate to others what words can and can not be used, that draws immense guffaws from me at their patently absurd uptightness.

At the APEC cocktail parties, the irony of the world's worst climate laggard claiming that the rest of the world was holding back its ambitious agenda would have drawn wry smiles and the odd guffaw.