Sentences with phrase «verbal barbs»

Although the plot details of the film are still under wraps, director David Leitch has confirmed that she'll have her luck - manipulating powers on screen and that she'll be trading verbal barbs with Ryan Reynolds» Deadpool.

Things have gotten awfully personal between the two Franks (MacKay and Morano) with verbal barbs traded back and forth.

Whereas other adventure games at the time relied heavily on inventory puzzles, The Secret of Monkey Island innovated with a puzzle that had you matching insults to comebacks thanks to a set of verbal barbs written by author Orson Scott Card.

DiNapoli and the Cuomo administration have traded verbal barbs over Tier 6 on several occasions now.

Dalahäst For a man known for his eloquence of wit, and clever verbal barbs you'd think that Jesus could have shamed them as easily as he did the Pharisees without resort to such violence.

There is another reason for Wenger to want his rival to stay in charge at Stamford Bridge as well, however, and this is on a more personal note, because the prof must have been loving all the suffering that his serial taunter was going through and was probably looking forward to a few well chosen verbal barbs aimed at the special one.

The two have exchanged verbal barbs several times now on the subject of the speaker's refusal to sign the trio of reform pledges sent out by Koch's NY Uprising PAC).

(In fact, the director of the state Democratic Party, Geoff Berman, has used the same line for both Republicans, referring to each of them separately as a Trump «mini-me,» indicating it might be high time for a new verbal barb).

After trading verbal barbs in their third and final debate last night, the two presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — will try to play nice at the Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan tonight, 301 Park Ave., Manhattan.

And in Seven Psychopaths, a series of violently unhinged men — and one confused screenwriter — trade McDonagh's particular brand of diamond - sharp verbal barbs.

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.

This is an action / comedy which succeeds only when it focuses on its charismatic lead actors, who trade verbal barbs like punches.

As adept at tossing off verbal barbs as she is selling broad slapstick that in lesser hands would be simply preposterous, Mui has expert timing and darn near walks away with the picture.

The screenplay, by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, is an absolute rapid fire assault of verbal barbs and slapstick comedy, nearly all of which works.

It started with sexual harassment claims, accelerated with verbal barbs, and ended with an unmasked nest of spies.

The new owner of the Niagara Falls Reporter and the paper's now - former movie reviewer traded verbal barbs over the owner's desire not to publish reviews about movies «where women are alpha and men are beta.»

In the case of the NY - 19 primary winners — Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso — the verbal barbs started flying just hours after the polls closed and both defeated their opponents by wide margins.

As I said, reduced to a plot outline, it's pretty unimpressive, but the verbal barbs that fly back and forth between the characters are what make the show.

Byrne sells the verbal barbs every time (and it's often that we get them), and Statham rambles with deadpan precision about his adventures.

Definately entertaining, especially with the verbal barbs being tossed around between Pitt and Jolie.

Allen's usually intelligent, trademarked comedic writing feels rushed — his verbal barbs coming off lazy.

There's a good degree of verbal barbs being tossed to and fro between Conservationists («Save The Whales!»)