Sentences with phrase «pointed barbs»

The fate of Chicago - based REIT General Growth Properties remains in flux as the major players that will determine its future continue to jockey for position and trade pointed barbs...

Iannuci's past pointed barbs designed to tear apart the hypocrisy and immorality of our leaders (TV series Veep and The Thick of It; the feature In The Loop) did the job but left us with one finger grasping humanity; not so The Death of Stalin.

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.

The victory lane interview was vintage Harvick in every sense, filled with pointed barbs that exemplified his don't - back - down mentality.

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

Intact male cats have rows of tiny, backward - pointing barbs on the head of the penis.

Not exact matches

Then raise the barb with your knife, and sharpen the point.

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.

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.»

De Blasio usually swatted away the barbs and returned to his carefully crafted talking points about his equity agenda and the reasons that Quinn, the early frontrunner, should not be mayor.

Five minutes into the debate, barbs were already flying, with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer saying Spitzer was a «colossal failure» as a governor and pointing to Spitzer's prostitution scandal that ultimately led to his 2008 resignation.

Republicans and Democrats trade barbs amid cheers and jeers, and the term «filibuster» comes to pointed life.

Quips and barbs and punch - drunk madness are the results of that tenderness in each of the characters, and the compassionate point of view taken by the filmmakers towards them and their struggle to do the right thing allows for empathy in the most unexpected places.

A dark comedy with as many barbs as points, Zero Motivation is a delicious and original vision, percolating with purpose.»

Reeves and Common are dialed in, hitting the meticulously detailed choreography with precision and coming across both believable and effortlessly cool while trading pointed verbal barbs and eliciting «oohs and ahhs» from the audience.

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

All those points and barbs four meters up gave that wall an unwelcoming, unclimbable, pants - ripping feel.

Cats have little barbs on their tongues, which point backwards, and help push everything down their throats.

Fishhooks: Fishhooks must be pushed on through the skin, the barb and point cut off, and then the remainder can be pulled back through the skin the same way it went in.

The point of «Women Can't Paint» at the ASC and Turps Banana galleries is to prove that they can, contrary to Georg Baselitz's notorious barb.

The work, for all of its pointed topical barbs and inventive visual vocabularies, is therefore also an open - ended document in which Madani shows how the ways we experience time, as well as what has come to be called «progress», are beholden to inexplicable changes of heart, mind, and body.

The students that are just interested in the science don't see the point of this (maybe you can convince them otherwise by a sterling analysis of the PDI etc), and tend to react emotionally to the «attacks», barbs, etc., while those interested also in the sociopsycho aspects of all this find some of that interesting or at least entertaining.

2 extra points for barbs about my motivations revealed by my spelling error (than, instead of the intended «then»).