Word: wisecrack
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...oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible. Or, as the essayist William Hazlitt put it in a still famous wisecrack, he made "pictures of nothing, and very like...
Hirsch says that, despite his success, Roberts still “comes across as a friendly and regular guy,” who likes to wisecrack and talk about sports. But Scherer says he has retained a social formality...
Speaking onstage with MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews, Summers noted with approval a recent influx of women into the workforce, according to a report in New York magazine. Noting the irony, Summers reportedly said, “Spare me the wisecrack, Chris...
When Shirin Ebadi was in prison in Tehran a few years ago for accusing officials of plotting attacks on reformers, her husband petitioned a court to visit her behind bars. "You are a free man now!" was the male-chauvinistic wisecrack of an Islamic judge. "Why don't you take advantage of your freedom...
...Bush administration, in short, will have to follow the road map of Middle East reform. More than ever before, America is entrenched here. As a current wisecrack circulating the Middle East puts it, "Why doesn't the U.S. just join the Arab League...