Word: retort
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...story, they sometimes undermine it. Frankie sings, "Big girls don't cry," and the backers ask skeptically, "Who said they don't cry?" Frankie: "My girl didn't cry." The others, slyly: "I wonder why." At the end he returns to the "don't cry" theme, and they retort, "That's just an alibi...
...hopes of becoming part of it: they're after better housing, better schooling, an opportunity of a decent income, satisfying work, and the respect and esteem France extends its other citizens. In fact, they're demanding exactly those things the followers of bin Laden hate most. Perhaps, some retort, but setting cars alight and attacking cops are significant acts of violence, and a psychological step closer to actual terror acts. All that's needed, that argument goes, are that the demands of today's rioters be redirected toward jihad. It's true that France has been woefully unresponsive to banlieue...
...boast alumni like Ernie Banks and Billy Williams. The anonymous Sox play in a soul-challenged modern bowl on a site that was once downwind of the city's now vanished stockyards. One poll found that 36% of Cubs fans will cheer for the Astros. Sox fans might well retort: Fine, but who stinks...
...resurgence of snobbery is initially perplexing because in our society, and at self-styled progressive institutions such as Harvard in particular, the cries “elitism!” or “snobbery!” are usually debate-ending ones. There is really not an effective retort to being called a snob, the meanness of the accusation being virtually the only factor working against its use. Typically, if one is ever accused of elitism or elitist sympathies, the only way out is a melodramatic, and often pathetic, “race to the bottom...
Josie Aimes (Theron) is a hard-pressed mother of two who returns home after her failed marriage. Her mother, Alice Aimes (Spacek), simply cannot understand why the couple couldn’t make it work, despite Josie’s retort, “He beat me more than once and more than lightly...