Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed steadily since the June 16 bombing revolt: to seem the statesman and play the peacemaker while stalling for time to mend his power. Coming after his opponents had spent a week noisily rejecting his offer of a truce of the week before, charging trickery, his soft retort left them with their fists up and no one to fight...
...Church of Saint Eugenius. "Where's Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast got a homespun retort. Editorialized the Bristol Herald Courier: "He said he didn't know where Bristol is after he learned us 'hillbillies' in this 'mountain-locked community' reckoned his divine piece of Small Boy and Fawn wasn't worth the asking price of $8,500 in view...
...Revolutionary France was just a rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine why generation after generation of men and women grow up bursting with ambition to change the world and right its wrongs. Fosca thinks he knows that "nothing can be done for man." But the retort he gets from mortal men throughout seven centuries is always much the same, e.g., "I've got to feel that I'm alive-even if I have to die trying," and, "There is... one good: to act according to one's conscience...
...White House press conference, Ike, again observing his ban on personal invective, generalized his retort to Butler, but his generalization cut wide and deep. Said he: "I think too often politicians look into a looking glass instead of through a window ... I really believe you [reporters] are better judges of interests, breadth of interests, capacities and the kind of things we are trying to do, than some politician who, looking in the glass, sees only reflections of doubt and fear and the kind of confusion that he often tries to create...
...some ancient race of prototypes of man, self-contained and with vision that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore's rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like a lump trying to shake off a nightmare, and perhaps rise to human...