Word: twitted
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...students at the University of California at Santa Cruz voted to call school teams the Banana Slugs in honor of a slimy yellow gastropod that swarms over the seaside campus on rainy days. Lest anyone miss the message, pro-Slug students said they meant to twit the "football mentality" of other California schools...
...Justice is a lively and facile writer whose literate prose stands out on a court undistinguished by the eloquence of its opinions. In one dissent he borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan to twit his colleagues for arrogating too much power to the federal courts: "The law is the true embodiment/ Of everything that's excellent/ It has no kind of fault or flaw/ And I, my Lords, embody...
...contrast, the steel- butterfly effect, that is fascinating. She is, possibly, a shade too composed and cerebral in her thoroughly adult second film, the delightful period comedy % A Room with a View. Her character, a properly brought-up young person who allows herself to become engaged to a twit, is supposed to be slightly silly, but Bonham Carter does not quite succeed in counterfeiting nitwittedness. She needs to study acting, she knows, and to find time for a university education. She needs to stop being 19. "At the moment I don't have much to impart to the world...
...Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...
...play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first as a feminist writer, later as a purveyor of visionary science fiction. "I wanted to be reviewed on merit, as a new writer, without the benefit of a 'name,' " she asserts, "to get free of that cage of associations...