Word: retorted
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...heavy burden for only two people, but it is doubtful that two more capable actors could be found. Miss Tandy and Mr. Cronyn take turns playing straight man, but at all times they seem perfectly natural. Their timing is excellent and whether it is a sharp retort of a raised eyebrow, the action is delivered with maximum effectiveness...
...company from threatened bankruptcy 13 years ago, when its stock was "under water" (i.e., had a book value of minus $1,000,000), to 1950 sales of $74 million and a book value for the stock of $12,000,000. But, in letters to stockholders, Green had a ready retort: how come the company hadn't paid a single dividend during its 13-year convalescence...
Leibowitz: "I warn you, Mr. Gross, all of this sarcasm and smart-aleck retort is going to cost you dearly...
...education based on Rousseau. He spent much of his boyhood in the country, leading a life of camping and hunting. A visit to Europe helped to make him a patriot: a Spanish officer sneered at the colonies, and young Bolivar flared up in such a hot retort that he was "advised" to leave Madrid. Back home, he joined the radicals, and when fighting broke out, threw himself into the cause of the republic...
...audiences who sometimes complain that they cannot follow the rich accents of British movie stars could read a sprightly retort from the other side last week. Wrote the London Spectator's Film Critic Virginia Graham, in a bittersweet review of Born Yesterday: The stars' performances "leave nothing to be desired-that, at least, is the impression left by this film, an impression which it is extraordinarily clever of it to make seeing that, as it is written in Bronx, only one out of every ten words is comprehensible. I remember once being similarly impressed by a film...