Word: retort
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...common retort to my nigger-boosting is that I would be ready to fight if a white person called me a nigger. This is true, but more because I'd be expected to be offended than for any real hurt feelings. Sure, I would not take kindly to whites calling me "nigger" - just as black audience members didn't take kindly to Michael Richards' recent racist rant - but I also wouldn't assume that I'd be able to walk into a honky-tonk bar and address the patrons as white trash. Words are contextual. A man on the street...
...When confronted with such numbers—a level below 1.3 has been accurately described by some commentators as “demographic death”—many retort: “Well sure in the short term that’s unfortunate, but there are simply too many people right now. Somewhere a little way down the line it will all even...
...former CIA senior intelligence officer and al-Qaeda expert Michael Scheuer, who said details in the book rang true to what intelligence officials knew about training in Afghan camps and the operations of some underground cells - and vouched for certain information he'd seen earlier in classified form. Doubters retort that much information and even video of training camps has been made public over the years, along with vast reporting on extremist activity and thinking. Using all of that, it wouldn't take an Arabic speaker with a little access to radical circles - and a sharp imagination - to create...
...other sisters chuckle when Saglimbeni recounts her saucy retort. But many of their loved ones feel less jovial about the women's decision to take the veil. "For those who are called, there is a real falling in love. You are filled with a joy and desire to be with God," says Sister Mary Gabriel Devlin, 32, vocation director at Sisters of Life. "Their families are not experiencing this, so it can be hard for them to understand." The sense of alienation can be even greater when women choose an order that isolates them from their families and others...
...suspects? "I probably would have voted yes," McCaskill said. Then, as the groans and jeers erupted from the European phone lines, she rushed to add: "I'm very uncomfortable about the lack of habeas corpus. But this was better than what the Bush Administration wanted." "Bulls---!" came a blunt retort from Paris...