Word: sarcasms
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...meeting had come in a serious mood. They wanted to talk about improvements, not politics, and demanded them in no uncertain tones. At one point, when City Manager Moore noted that Portland had two garbage collections a week, the men & women of Munjoy Hill hooted with delighted sarcasm. "Once, Tuesday mornings," piped a little man in the third row. Moore seemed startled, and promised to correct...
Leibowitz: "I warn you, Mr. Gross, all of this sarcasm and smart-aleck retort is going to cost you dearly...
...Citizenship), he used his text only as an outline and went on flailing away extemporaneously. He praised General Marshall and the Joint Chiefs, castigated "special interests" seeking to evade price controls, and people he called "pullbacks," who seek to cut down defense expenditures. With his voice heavy with sarcasm, he lambasted Robert Taft...
...books Nehru revises Voltaire's famous sarcasm (if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him): if God did exist, it would be necessary not to worship...
...list of 100 obvious phrases and rating the ideas as "quite important," "of average importance," or "not important." For instance, reports Sperry, "the group . . . rated 'To help children with their academic problems' as 'quite important.' When we came to the eighth phrase ('To avoid sarcasm or "talking down" in your relations with children') . . . there was an uneasy silence...