Sentences with phrase «of riposte»

The title of the riposte at Things Break sums up the situation nicely, at least with regard to Roger Pielke Jr's effort:

Consciously acting as a sort of a riposte to unexpected - pregnancy hits like «Knocked Up» and «Juno,» the film sees a struggling stand - up comedian Donna (ex-SNL-er Jenny Slate) dumped by her boyfriend, only to accidentally conceive during a rebound one - night - stand with a random dude (Jake Lacy).

Trent's snotty teenage daughter is asleep in the back seat, leaving no one to witness, much less defend the introverted, overthinking kid who can't think of a riposte and, hence, sinks further into a sulk that mystifies his mother when she wakes up.

That is enough of a riposte to these racists.He has so much on his plate now with sorting out Windrush, national security and keeping the public safe, that there is no time to be messing about with these kind of people.

Amico / a mio / a, the tone of your riposte varies considerably from your original post.

Indeed, the very title of Martin's book is a sort of riposte to Balthasar's Dare we hope that all be saved?

Not exact matches

Cowen's latest work of pop economics is a bracing riposte to the locavore likes of Michael Pollan and others who blame commercialization and agribusiness for the miserable state of North American cuisine.

More pertinently, Voltaire's riposte to Theodicy in Candide» why would the Lisbon earthquake occur in this best of all possible worlds» has no good answer.

He knew all about interests and power, was a master of clever ripostes, well - placed barbs, and the tricks of outwitting opponents.

The formal ripostes to the claims of Scientism have already been articulated.

Barr's riposte — that this does not imply that they «hav [e] no meaning at all beyond their historical circumstances of origin» — serves simply to relativize historical criticism and hardly demonstrates that Watson's point is «rubbish.»

Even the title is like oxygen; a one - line riposte to an aspect of culture that we all know is flawed.

It is a nice riposte, but the history of art since Rothko, of course, has not stood still.

King has occasionally compared himself to Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris, two turn - of - the - century social realists who specialized in urban miseries and workmanlike prose, and he loves to quote Norris» riposte to critics: «What should I care if they single me out for sneers and laughter?

So with the ignominy of a 4 - 0 shutout in the morning, and stewing as the home crowd got so much to cheer for, McIlroy went out in the anchor match of afternoon fourball and proceeded to provide an emphatic riposte.

No, the footballer's riposte is via the medium of the provocative celebration.

Last week's terrific result away to Manchester United − the defending champions − was the perfect riposte to the 3 - 1 loss at Eastlands, with Alan Pardew's men battling to a 1 - 1 draw at Old Trafford courtesy of some typically spirited rearguard action, as well as some inspired keeping from Tim Krul.

Fabregas added a third to make the game safe, and in a nice touch at full - time, he assembled the players together to applaud each corner of the ground - yet another riposte to those who say he lacks leadership qualities.

General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has fired a sharp riposte at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for claiming Justice Yaw Apau was appointed to the Supreme Court because he did a «hatchet» job for the government on Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

Cartwright's insistence upon annual parliaments was a riposte to the celebrated declaration made by Edmund Burke to his Bristol electorate in 1774, that a Member of Parliament's «unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you... Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion».

Iain Duncan Smith's shrill riposte to Labour criticism of the move, citing «the protection of the unions» as Labour's motivation, was a pathetic and unworthy claim.

Your riposte, Mr. Franklin Cudjoe of IMANI, does not appear responsible by half.

Hydrocracker's new production of Harold Pinter's The New World Order is a strong riposte to anyone who has ever doubted the necessity of Shakespeare's epilogues or sneered at people fainting during Titus Andronicus.

New York's 29 Democratic electors may have been heartbroken while casting their votes for Hillary Clinton after her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month, but they made sure to send a final riposte to the president - elect's anti-immigrant rhetoric — by donating their Electoral College salaries, a total of $ 435, to a prominent immigrant policy and advocacy organization.

JS Mill's description of Conservatives as inherently dimwitted and irredeemably nasty is a favourite default, copy and paste, kneejerk riposte for the progressively smug and English «nationalism» is, clearly, seen as both dimwitted and nasty.

Hats off to Elizabeth Truss for her riposte to the collection of early years specialists, academics and pundits who have tried yet again to persuade us that the root cause of educational failure is too early a start to school.

Then came the baleful riposte, from some Arewa «youths»; who growled that should the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) be serious with its secessionist threat, then the Igbo, living and earning their living in the North, must quit that region by October 1 — or else!

The Republican - led Senate's riposte to Cuomo's proposed budget laid bare some of the biggest points of contention in their education agendas — restoring cuts in school aid and the creation of a tax credit for school donations.

The riposte will do little to ease the anger of secularists and humanists, who were offended by the Pope's opening speech outside Holyrood House.

Before discussing the views of party members and supporters in more detail, let me address the obvious riposte — in the light of the polls» performance in this year's general election, why should we trust these latest figures?

It is the clearest riposte yet from Ben Bradshaw to James Murdoch, the son of the media mogul who gave a speech recently associating the BBC with totalitarian government.

12:15 - Miliband's riposte shows the danger of the Tory attack, however.

The release of solid policy details is being treated as a direct riposte to Labour claims that the Tories have «no substance», and a defensive manoeuvre against Gordon Brown's detailed and policy - filled conference speech last week.

ALBANY — The Republican - led Senate's riposte to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget laid bare some of the biggest points of contention in their education agendas — restoring cuts in school aid and the creation of a tax credit for school donations.

Until then Sir Malcolm Rifkind has proposed an elegant riposte to the creation of the Scottish region in the EU — but one without teeth.

The Tories» most effective riposte to this damaging charge yesterday was to point to Labour's indulgence of its own wealthy donors — one of whom, Swraj Paul, is a non-dom who has long sat in the Lords, and another of whom, David Sainsbury, made super-sized payments before being appointed to ministerial office.

In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins crafts an elegant riposte to show that the complex process of Darwinian natural selection is unconscious and automatic.

The scientific study of the nature, origin and fate of the Universe — not a bad riposte to that perennial dinner - party question: «So what do you do for a living?»

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Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See is all over the place, scattering its ripostes hither and yon over the idea that modern popular criticism is a bankrupt profession in bed with the interests of a few very powerful movie distributors (Miramax's Weinstein brothers in particular) that have become our guardians of «independent» taste.

For example, on occasion one machine will indicate, in a roundabout sort of way, that he opposes the continuation of human life on Earth, whereupon the other machine will come back with a pithy riposte.

This isn't the best time for customers to start defecting to another vigorous salesman, but that's the essence of At Any Price, a refreshingly detailed riposte to pastoral amity.

A densely woven web of compelling character studies and larger systemic concerns, Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's bleaker, more jaundiced riposte to Steven Soderbergh's 2000 «Traffic» may prove too grim and grisly for some audiences and too morally ambiguous for others.

He hates women, lives with his mother (Sandy Martin), and finds himself incapable of forming witty ripostes to the jabs that come his way.

In the process, revealing the complexity of human interaction, where genuine affection can be expressed in the brutal honesty of a withering riposte, and a moment's comfort can arrive via a stranger with no emotional investment.

The optimistic riposte is that science is not just a history of failures.

For those who accuse the British - based manufacturer of looking to the past to influence its future, this image is a striking riposte.

The new Vanquish S provides a riposte, the main thrust of which is an additional 60 hp for its superb 5.9 - liter V - 12 (now 520 hp to the DB9 «s 450).

This fleet of competition machinery is an excellent riposte to those who accuse BMW of forgetting what the Ultimate Driving Machine feels like.