Word: tartly
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...over the possibility of a woman as U.S. President, a New York Post columnist recalled that a Maine constituent once inquired of doughty Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith: "What would you do if you woke up one morning and found yourself in the White House?" Senator Smith's tart reply: "I would apologize to the President's wife and go home...
...Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother Stanislaus, the plodding provident ant in Joyce's grasshopper life...
...gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough to keep continuity, it adds tart to the essentially sweet story, but it never becomes oppressive...
...good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus hard on that hardy piece of English enamelware, the water closet. But at its best the new realism has the effect of a pint of bitter-tart proof that Englishmen can still face life with relish...
...with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans to run for re-election next year. Gazing at his questioner piercingly, Senator Green showed a flash of indignation, gave a tart reply: "If you don't mind my saying so, it is a foolish question...