How To Use One-liner In A Sentence
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With a stage presence as big as her amazing costumes, her ad-libs and one-liners had the audience in raptures.
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In conversation he speaks with the measured tone of a comic actor used to delivering deadpan one-liners.
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His manner was rather that of a music hall artist, complacent, even cheerful, as his one-liners provoked from his audience the rejoinders he sought.
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Fans will revel in the snappy one-liners, the latex effects, the swearing and what sci-figeeks everywhere will be calling 'intertextuality'.
Times, Sunday Times
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When she came out with her infantile one-liner about turning Herman Cain's "9-9-9" plan upside down and discovering that "the devil's in the details" 999 is 666 upside-down, geddit?
GOP presidential economics debate in New Hampshire - as it happened
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There are some great one-liners on the way to the top spot.
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Always first with the one-liners and quickest at comebacks?
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The book is littered with one-liners and anecdotes that will be familiar to activists on the Left.
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A whole whack of puns, one-liners and double entendres get crammed into the 90-minute running time, and most of them fall flatter than a postage stamp.
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Take, for example, little old ladies prone to cute, feisty one-liners.
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Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners.
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In between is again a lot of action and witty one-liners thrown in.
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Yes, it has some amusing dialogue, mostly one-liners, but the humor is that of a professional popgun for hire, an impersonal jokester, rather than an observer of humanity.
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The music is just as loud as in the previous films, and the gags and one-liners are more often lame than funny.
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The cast deals admirably with a difficult script which is peppered with acerbic one-liners and wonderfully witty wisecracks.
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Although I did wonder whether they might have exchanged some witty one-liners.
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More than just a witty one-liner.
Times, Sunday Times
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The script is peppered with hilarious, punchy one-liners and one malicious twist in the plot follows another to keep the momentum swinging nicely.
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Although compared to Medea, Medusa and Circe, Lumley seems more angry pussycat than classical tigress; but she does deliver Goldman's one-liners with the right snap, crackle and pop, and suggests a devious mind at work.
The Lion in Winter - review
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One-liners were bouncing around my head, ripostes to every single barb, especially those from the fat bloke.
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This is no different; the guy just knows how to underplay a role and spit out brilliant one-liners.
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He will be remembered for his quick wit, his one-liners and his dry sense of humour.
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He can crack a good one-liner, but his instinct is to open up the bonnet of a joke and see what interests him inside it.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this is done with a wink and a smile, lots of witty one-liners and a backdrop of upbeat music.
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The book's wittiness is derived more from the incongruous circumstances than it is from one-liners (though there are those), and I'm undecided as to whether this is a lost opportunity (could it have been funnier?) or the reason why the humor succeeds (there are several laugh-out-loud moments).
REVIEW: Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
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Fey, who has won several Emmys for her writing and acting, has given the Twain gala's producers and writers plenty of skits and one-liners to work with.
Stars set to honor Tina Fey in Mark Twain Prize ceremony at Kennedy Center
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The one-liners are snappy, the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded.
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I have some great one-liners with all that technical stuff!
The Sun
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Another Friday night, another great batch of one-liners from the deliciously dialogued Ugly Betty!
'Ugly Betty' Bites: 18 Betty-ful clips from last night! | EW.com
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His wearying recourse to the one-liner is the literary equivalent of tossing choc drops to the reader.
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This dark film boasts some great one-liners, but the laughs are few and far between.
The Sun
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The posters round here tend to respond better to more detailed conversational openers than to one-liner posts.
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The old bruiser yesterday did what he does best - deliver a barnstorming, end-of-conference speech packed with one-liners brutally aimed at the hapless Tories and shifty Liberal Democrats.
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This has the odd effect of partially neutralising Dafoe's excellent performance, creating a character who is Bugs Bunny-like, capable of partaking in comic one-liners.
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In-depth analysis gets mowed down by the rat-tat-tat of one-liners.
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She tends to be good at one-liners, but less inclined to intellectual conversation.
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He must be so scared that he scrolls immediately to the bottom where he posts his mindless, callous, cold-hearted one-liners.
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It is undeniable that they cannot be easily summarized or reduced to one-liners.
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Having met Robbie on several occasions through his great mate Steve McManaman, I've always found him reserved but friendly, generous and endearingly quick with deadpan one-liners.
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It depends on one-liners and historical in-jokes that take a great deal of energy to follow.
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When you start allowing for system subtypes, logical system divisions, and all the other miscellaneous factors, your one-liner could end up being 300 lines.
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Mamet effortlessly packs his story with one-liners, irony and sharp satire as he warmly ribs his own industry and the people that become caught up in it.
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Even John McCain, the king of repetetive one-liners, wouldn't let her in public.
Romney PAC raises $1.6M in six months
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Big, on the other hand, smoked cigars, drank Scotch, had the best one-liners and a headful of sleek black hair I was born to run my fingers through.
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My favorite overheard one-liner from one audient was: "Oh, I hear the Polo is orrrf in Jerusalem this year".
Wow
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It depends on one-liners and historical in-jokes that take a great deal of energy to follow.
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Being a New York type, Artifex deploys an arsenal of ironic, gnomic, one-liners: "Life is an opportunity to make things happen,""What is more important than maintaining one's enthusiasm?
Regina Weinreich: Revolutions of the Mind: Three Sisters and Mistakes Were Made
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The performance opens at a seemingly innocuous meeting of a village fête committee, made up of a drunk vicar and an array of ineffectual local worthies who deliver a string of bawdy one-liners.
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But what touched her was the serenity, even gaiety of his old age—“Being always perfectly happy, he had a charm about him”—and his fondness for disconcertingly simpleminded jokes, something he had always shared more readily with colleagues than he could with his own family “Kill Sydenstricker!” went a favorite one-liner passed round the missionaries of North Kiangsu.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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He also has a penchant for catchy one-liners, ideally suited to television.
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This prompted me to hunt out an article whose most memorable one-liner is “In order to be a wit in a foreign language you have to go through the stage of being a half-wit – there is no other way”.
R is for Reticence « An A-Z of ELT
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When the time comes, you will be able to put the boss down with a crushing one-liner and stalk out of the office with head held high, instead of rushing to the pub to blub into your pint.
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To many in Scotland, Smith is just a comic turn and it's often taken outsiders to recognise her ability to do more than just drop one-liners.
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The movie is a veritable mine of in-jokes, strange gags, and funny one-liners.
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Has anything inspired the oft-dubbed king of the one-liner to create a corking new joke recently?
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But she can also hint at almost infinite grief with a tight one-liner that brings a snort of laughter and a wince of empathy.
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The writing was excellent, with Verity's sarcastic one-liners to customers simply rolling off the tongue.
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There is a smooth flow of jokes, some nice one-liners, the sort to send the masses giggling away.
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It was scripted by Johnny Speight when this red-brick apartment block just off the Bayswater Road was a real fun factory and Ray Galton and Alan Simpson also ricocheted one-liners round a rented room.
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An astute mixture of laughter and tears, the screenplay constantly pulls back from the edge of outright sentimentality with a sarcastic one-liner or a cheeky remark.
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Being a New York type, Artifex deploys an arsenal of ironic, gnomic, one-liners: "Life is an opportunity to make things happen," "What is more important than maintaining one's enthusiasm?
Regina Weinreich: Revolutions of the Mind: Three Sisters and Mistakes Were Made
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Each week we provide a cartoon in need of a witty one-liner.
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There are sight gags a plenty, and some great one-liners and verbal repartee.
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Nope, one-liners that are fallacious is the best you can muster I suppose.
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Helena Bonham Carter (the big-headed Red Queen – literally) has some of the best one-liners in the film, but it feels like even she could have used a couple more.
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland » Scene-Stealers
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Burns' dialogue has a natural, unforced rhythm that contains a fair number of wry one-liners that compensate for occasional bouts of triteness and pretentiousness.
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As MH, the family nurse practitioner, cleaned and sutured the wound, the patient punctuated the air with Henny Youngman-type one-liners.
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Much of the credit for us not getting bored of this show after ten years is down to the pair's slapstick comedy links and one-liners.
The Sun
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And, because I'm writing for The Jewish Journal -- and am a Jewish woman -- I'd ask him what the heck was up with some of the movie's snide, subtle one-liners, in particular, the not-so-veiled references to the general unattractiveness of my cohort.
Danielle Berrin: Desperately Seeking Sorkin
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The script must remain kiddie friendly, as well as laying down witty one-liners for the growns.
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But she can also hint at almost infinite grief with a tight one-liner that brings a snort of laughter and a wince of empathy.
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The panel members kept interrupting one another with one-liners.
The Other Side of Me
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As usual, there were jokes and one-liners.
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And it's years since I've heard anyone pile up as many pithy one-liners.
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Across the kingdom the princes and princesses of pantomime are taking their bows and cracking one-liners in Christmas productions packed with Yuletide yarns and knockabout comic capers.
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This fabulously barmy show is littered with Wilde's inimitable razor-sharp hysterical one-liners and a delicious vein of black humour.
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A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
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But his live show is much more casually cruel, and no matter how sensitive a subject, nothing is taboo for his one-liners.
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We live in the age of fast food and pithy one-liners.
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It's more like a chorus line of wonderful observational one-liners.
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It contained an excellent one-liner, “Sovietology, like paranoia, is a dangerous disease” — Western policy-making towards Russia is indeed severely infected by both — but also a reference to something whose importance even the Russian president himself may perhaps under-estimate.
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They mix with the crowd telling stories and dropping one-liners to kindle interest and build suspense.
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As a result, emails from men tend to be short, and are often one-liners.
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This one-liner vehicle driven by William Shatner and based on a Twitter feed of the same name petered out in one season; the original feed forges on with about 3 million followers.
Must-See TV? Not!
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Writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber often relies too heavily on physical humor instead of truly clever zingers and one-liners.
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He can't deliver a one-liner.
The Sun
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Macy himself proves to have a way with the deadpan one-liner, delivering a typically spot-on performance.
William H. Macy On The Trials And Troubles Of Making ‘The Deal’ » MTV Movies Blog
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The one-liners are so funny.
The Sun
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In-depth analysis gets mowed down by the rat-tat-tat of one-liners.
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A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
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And there are some great one-liners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Doolittle in My Fair Lady, is back on more familiar ground in this barmy story, littered with Wilde's razor-sharp one-liners.
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Cartoon challenge Each week we provide a cartoon in need of a witty one-liner.
Times, Sunday Times
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They argue constantly, zinging each other with ultra-bitchy one-liners.
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The panel members kept interrupting one another with one-liners.
The Other Side of Me
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Jacqueline Clarke as octogenarian pianist Jeanette had the best of the one-liners - firing them off like Mae West in her prime - while Tommy Knight as Jerry's son Nath is a little star in the making.
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Dialogue is sparse, so the humour is superficial, not character-driven, and shows up as glib one-liners.
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Its routine story is enlivened by good one-liners and classy performances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody takes a round in the shoulder and still runs around delivering great one-liners.
The Sun
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This premise sort of sets up many of the one-liners and jokes that permeate the film.
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Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
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The one-liners are as zingfully fresh as only Hollywood's best script doctors can write.
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With a stage presence as big as her amazing costumes, her ad-libs and one-liners had the audience in raptures.
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At times it seems that too many characters are capable of the perfect one-liner, but the political arena is appropriate for such nuanced dialogue.
IN THE LOOP DVD Review – Collider.com
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Not just bytes, she is besotted by witty one-liners and mushy expressions, phrases.
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I used the following shell one-liner: for i in *; do for j in $i/*; do cd $j; tar xf *. tar.gz; cd ..
Planet Haskell
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The problem is that the old party is an unconscionable time a-dying, which prompts Kemp to utter outrageous one-liners.
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The movie is a veritable mine of in-jokes, strange gags, and funny one-liners.
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Some people start with a one-liner or a joke, I personally like short stories that in a simple way say something about the speaker, or the topic, or sometimes both at the same time.
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After the initial, attention-grabbing one-liners, each ad went on to explain the benefits of a particular banking service.
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The gags in the movie make the one-liners in the evening sitcoms look recherché, but the packed house I saw the film with roared at every one.
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Now, they specialize in one-liners.
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Always, in the past, you could rely on wicked one-liners and glorious cameo roles.
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This becomes a running gag, along with plenty of witty and clever one-liners.
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I can remember several brilliant one-liners that he used to come out with but none of them are printable.
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He mumbles an unheard one-liner about losing his damage deposit as he wrenches the door of the moving car open and dives inelegantly inside.
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I've always tried to defuse situations with a one-liner, quip, or smile.
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And on those rare occasions when she attempts a one-liner, it is met with hoots of derision.
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Yes, it has some amusing dialogue, mostly one-liners, but the humor is that of a professional popgun for hire, an impersonal jokester, rather than an observer of humanity.
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Occasionally, Alex and Emma manages to throw out a witty one-liner and there are isolated occasions when the romantic elements show signs of life.
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The cast deals admirably with a difficult script which is peppered with acerbic one-liners and wonderfully witty wisecracks, characteristic of Marber's earlier comedy.
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He floored budding chess players with his swift one-liners like the lightening fast moves he makes on the board.
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A wink and a one-liner instantly changed the dinner from a red-faced embarrassment to a conspiracy of fun.
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Ronald Reagan delivered some one-liner doozies, one of which is still a favorite of several members of Congress and talking heads on cable news:
Are we still capable of educating for 'us-ness?'
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Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
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Luka and the Fire of Life zings along with a palpable sense of Otter-like excess: its exuberance is inextricably linked to its profligacy with puns, rhymes, one-liners and snippets of nonsense.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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The comedy aspect is a little lame, with too many one-liners, and the movie is hopelessly trapped in the '80s in almost every way.
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Like the violent cinema of China and Japan, there were no quips, no one-liners, no rise in a trumpets or hugs whenever someone died.
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Not just bytes, she is besotted by witty one-liners and mushy expressions, phrases.
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From cartoons to sitcoms, the stars are now sassy children who deliver flip one-liners, put down authority figures and revel in a laugh track.
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All of the top ten one-liners were delivered by men.
The Sun
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The story is clever and very risqué for its time, dealing with serious themes of sex, fidelity, and jealousy with trademarked barbs and one-liners.
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The panel members kept interrupting one another with one-liners.
The Other Side of Me
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With such scathing one-liners Steers gives his film a hard carapace of irony.
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The narrative is tangential and anecdotal, a linear mosaic of small failures and smaller successes, interspersed with laugh out loud one-liners.
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He was warm, witty and faced each day armed with a brace of one-liners and a trademark cheeky grin.
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Instead of long explanatory diatribes on the reason for doing, or being, it spits out witty one-liners that cut the legs off apathy.
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Dave can see he's on to a winner, so reels off a string of one-liners without a break.
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Indeed, in the film, there are a lot of brilliant throwaway one-liners about our celeb-obsessed culture.
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Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
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Given that he has roughly the same access to each event as his readers, Smith relies heavily upon the witty one-liner which encapsulates the experience for his reader.
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Those witty one-liners were killers.
