Word: retort
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Defenders of photography as a true art form retort that no work of art is possible without, to some extent, copying outside models, or without the intervention of some accident-the chance ray of light on a sitter, the stray bit of dialogue overheard in the street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold...
Dewey's closest political associates on the national scene . . ." With a typical retort, Governor Thomas E. Dewey promptly accepted the challenge. Said he: "Apparently Wagner is trying to charge that some member of the national Administration appealed to me unsuccessfully in the interest of Joseph Fay. I always thought the boy was stupid, but never before that he was crazy. No such appeal has ever been made to me by anyone connected with the national Administration...
Moody's speech brought a sharp retort from Harry M. Moses, spokesman for the northern operators, who snapped that wage cuts are "a very unsatisfactory and unsuccessful method of meeting the problem...
...rhetoric. The leader of the Glens Falls chapter took the floor. Starting meekly, she pronounced her scorn for would government, then worked up to, "Let us turn the strength massed within this great, influential and highly esteemed organization to a constructive force for the United Nations." The retort was brief but effective. The only thing we have to fear is such a statement as has just been made...
...Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife? She had better die!" That same night, a Moslem and another high-caste Hindu called on the same errand, got the same offer, gave the same retort. Next morning, Ida heard the tom-toms beat the death march for three Indian women who had died in labor. Did she belong in India, after all? She prayed for guidance...