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skilled at
making clever and
funny remarks.
Forms of wit
include the quip,
repartee, and wisecrack. As in the wit of
Dorothy Parker's set, the
Algonquin Round...
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Stanley praised the
casting of
Chase writing, "Jeff has the kind of
sardonic repartee and
slapdash nonchalance that the
comedian Chevy Chase had when he was...
- writing: "Both
stars are so
attuned to each other's pace and flow that
their repartee just
seems to
tumble out,
perfectly formed." It
emerged as one of his most...
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Balliol College (/ˈbeɪliəl/) is a
constituent college of the
University of Oxford.
Founded in 1263 by
nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a
claim to be...
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Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, romanized: Anton
Grigoryevich Rubinshteyn; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1829 –...
- 1840; and that it was in turn
based on a
widely reprinted poem ("Nuptial
Repartee") that
first appeared in the June 21, 1813,
Morning Herald of London. A...
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imitated Palin in a sketch,
alongside Amy
Poehler as
Hillary Clinton.
Their repartee included Clinton needling Palin about her "Tina Fey gl****es". The sketch...
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attuned to the
presence of
mortality that
underpins even Beckett's
jauntiest repartee. Hosmer,
Katie (3
April 2014). "Sir Ian
McKellen and Sir
Patrick Stewart...
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meant "to
lightly strike", and is now used to
describe quick speech or
repartee. The word has been used in the
English language since the 16th century...
- witless,
straining mess" and added, You wait in vain for a
moment of
snappy repartee, of
fresh emotion, of
grace or
charm or pathos...If The
Women had managed...
