Sentences with phrase «repartee on»

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When Christians are persecuted, terrorized and executed in communist or Muslim countries this is a matter for serious discussion and action, not witty repartee to prove who is the smartest kid on the block.

The witty repartee in the plays of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, for example, depends entirely on the pleasure audiences get from seeing traditional values turned upside down, as in Shaw's remark, «Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you: you may not have the same tastes.»

Replacing Jon Stewart on The Daily Show is not one of them, as this awkward repartee during Woods» Tuesday press conference ahead of Thursday's PGA Championship painfully illustrates:

The Corso thing is tough because when you see footage from before his stroke the one - liner's and back - and - forth repartee that he had on - set are just things he can't do anymore.

After 10 minutes of semi-tense repartee between Oldfield and the medium - sized doorman who kept saying «Now Brian, come on,» two girls entered in sandals and were allowed down the stairs without a fuss.

After watching the revival on Netflix, I decided to go back to the beginning and have been completely addicted to the witty repartee of the Lorelais (and I'm certainly not hating watching young Milo Ventimiglia as the wayward Jess).

Perhaps the only thing somewhat on the back burner in Django Unchained is Tarantino's penchant for witty repartee and clever monologues.

The filmmaker's sharp ear for repartee nudges Aiyaary toward something resembling a big statement on bribery and fraud in the Army..

This repartee goes to both sides of the law, as Olivia Williams (The Last Days on Mars, Anna Karenina), in a refreshingly adroit performance as a Southern cop named Brentwood, has a lot of interplay with her partner that sounds like funnier banter than it is.

While one would never confuse an old - fashioned Western with their other works, that doesn't stop this group from trying to stuff the horse opera into the formula they had created for the Pirates blockbusters, with a swashbuckling attitude that sees plenty of rope swinging and one - on - one duels, along with the requisite repartee.

Observe and Report more often goes for laughs at the expense of its characters, merely using them as vessels in order to continue to pile on uncouth repartee and so - called shocking ugliness.

Guns blazing, rapid - fire repartee and huge explosions are requirements in this genre, as is an on screen bond between the two leads.

Here, he plays it coy, at first, holding back on the melodrama and allowing his two fine leads — Timothée Chalamet (Lady Bird), as Elio, and Armie Hammer (Free Fire), as Oliver — to develop their rapport through gentle glances and easygoing repartee.

Be forewarned, this Cameron Diaz vehicle seizes on any excuse to serve up crude fare whether by having the heroine engage in relentlessly - vulgar repartee or merely prance around suggestively scantily clad.

As for the brand of humor, the graphic shocksploit repeatedly relies on curse words and the crudest of vulgarities for punch lines as opposed to creativity or sophisticated repartee.

They head off on the run from gangsters, all the while exchanging dynamic repartee and having great sex.

Her performance smacks of a lack of emotional wisdom, a reliance on sexy repartee, and surface tears intended to gain sympathy.

At least Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau can be counted on to provide comic relief and wickedly wise repartee.

Except for our awesome wheels, it could've been 10 years earlier, stomachs sore from laughing, all present concerns forgotten in the comfort of familiar repartee, the pull of unfamiliar scenery, the joy of being free and out on the road.

In this instalment, Lindsay explores the idea that evil as an entity has existed since the beginning of time, and touches on the ancient god Moloch and demonic possession, all the while giving his characters snappy repartee, Dexter an entertaining inner monologue and still managing a bit of D alliteration.

I remember a brief repartee between Nato Thompson, Creative Time's curator of social engagement public art projects, and Atlanta critic Jerry Cullum at the Contemporary a few years ago on the importance (or unimportance) of contemplative solitude in a painter's artistic practice.

She appeared on The Tonight Show and exchanged saucy repartee with Johnny Carson, the New York mayor Ed Koch hosted a dinner for her at Gracie Mansion, and the Whitney Museum held a major retrospective.

They also engage in sly repartee with a host of artists from Ellsworth Kelly to Larry Bell on crucial modernist ideas about line and drawing.

Say, we're all gettin» into the «Yes Minister» repartee, perhaps the three of us are ready fer resposible positions on ministerial committees.

... they are rather like contributions to a casual conversation (the analogy sometimes being drawn with people chatting in a bar) which people simply note before moving on; they are often uninhibited, casual and ill thought out; those who participate know this and expect a certain amount of repartee or «give and take»...

I am certainly no expert and gave up sitting on committees, even so I enjoyed the repartee, because it often is the old - boy's club.