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"repartee" Definitions
  1. clever and funny comments and replies that are made quickly

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The famed British wit and repartee has seen better days.
The two men bounce off one another in cheerful repartee.
It's repartee to make William Powell and Myrna Loy swoon.
The chapter on verbal repartee is written as a dramatic dialogue.
But her repartee with Social House's Michael Foster is warmly appealing.
But her repartee with Social House's Michael Foster is warmly appealing.
There is some witty repartee between the king and Black Jack Randall, and Jamie shows up and there is more repartee, only with more subtext and the subtle holding of sword handles by Randall and Jamie.
Among her loyal companions, she cracks jokes and indulges in smart repartee.
When the actors really sell the repartee, those mouths can be enough.
She doesn't write dialogue, for example, so much as she writes repartee.
Her work triggers a sustained ad-lib through double entendres and hyperbolic repartee.
He has a little repartee going with everyone who's ever written about him.
But after a few minutes of breezy repartee, his tone assumed an edge.
While hardly the sparkling repartee of a Tom Stoppard play, it immediately stands out.
It's Wes Anderson comedy — more notable for tone and bittersweet beauty than comedic repartee.
She delivered lines of homely inspiration, sometimes in a casual repartee, elsewhere in a wail.
Their repartee thus concluded, they move on to the mutually fascinating subject of Washington traffic jams.
Will our robot companions become more socially ingrained in our lives thanks to their witty repartee?
We hope to concentrate on calling the matches and not focus on creating witty broadcaster repartee.
A video shot at Channel 25 in San Francisco around 1984 demonstrates the duo's tart repartee.
Anyway, our mutual hotness was extreme, and we had great chemistry, with lots of witty repartee.
Some of the dialogue is reminiscent of the strenuously extra-witty repartee in Aaron Sorkin scripts.
I don't come into a Hollywood party and just like sparkle everyone to death with my repartee.
Nick's goofy companion Chris (Jake Johnson) dies early on but keeps coming back for some agonizing repartee.
Listen especially to the repartee of a man and a woman caged together in a hellish union.
Word of the Day : light, teasing repartee _________ The word raillery has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.
Sometimes I'm just a little bit too real for her, but I like that we have that repartee.
The company received praise from other social media users for its sassy repartee and even a few customers.
It is both "low"—farcical, vulgar, reliant on physical gags—and "high", dealing in sophistication and witty repartee.
Or Powerless, where the side characters enjoy witty repartee, but Hudgens fails to successfully land her one liners.
There was nothing flashy about the programs, or about Ms. Zieman's repartee; just straightforward advice, delivered with geniality.
Replace flirtation and sex with pratfalls and comic repartee and "Stan & Ollie" is a heartstrings-yanking Hollywood romance.
HR: There is a repartee, though, that he has with certain people and he has that with you.
There are many brilliant aspects of The A Word — the cheeky repartee, compelling characters, and twisting side-plots withstanding.
After a while though, the repartee starts to wear thin, and the obvious resolution takes much too long coming.
Despite their fun and flirty repartee, she wondered if Mr. Krauthamer's smooth moves might not be exclusive to her.
She is a typical recalcitrant teenager, albeit one with a way with words and a knack for the apposite repartee.
During the political repartee, Sasse mentioned to Maher that he'd love for the longtime host to visit his home state.
After a bit more repartee, the officer announced that he would hold my license and registration for another three minutes.
Some of the wordplay may be clever, but the attempts at witty repartee aren't sharp enough to be remotely amusing.
He has his pal Lance to banter with; Charlotte is mainly alone, bereft of repartee, until the arrival of Fred.
There's ample action but nothing is snappier than the repartee between the quick-witted female stars, both born New Yorkers.
Raunchy repartee turns to edgy teasing turns to caustic bickering turns to tension-relieving banter or sex (or bantering sex).
First it's an argument, then it's a repartee, then it gets a little sad, and then it's a big explosion. Right?
Their opening monologue had the repartee of a seasoned comedy duo; I'm sure Rachel Brosnahan is great in The Marvelous Mrs.
Their reporting fuels the conversation, but their repartee feels like we're just watching a couple of friends chatting at a bar.
But we in Britain must not make Wodehouse's error, believing that a gift for repartee provides everlasting immunity to vicious autocrats.
But then along came the walking book of quotations known as Adam Rippon, whose repartee is sharper than his skate blades.
They supplied quick-witted, slang-driven repartee that felt both revelatory and reassuring for dugout conversations and meetings on the mound.
That frisky repartee, plus a crafty way with Popsicle sticks and glue bottles, earned Sedaris her first Emmy nomination last season.
She's clearly a smart woman who's risen to the top of her field on the strength of her wit, intelligence, and repartee.
By turning LA's club scene into their creative laboratory, Alexis cultivated a flair for red-carpet gender-fashion bombing and interview repartee.
Though the phrase "get rid of it" is invoked during the repartee, leaving me to believe this is tacitly pro-choice programming.
The series's personal conflicts are well-grounded, but the details — the upscale Jewish New York milieu, the fashions, the repartee — are idealized.
So has the show's fizzy cocktail of rapid-fire repartee, pop culture savvy and heartfelt drama about mothers and daughters and relationships.
Thank you to our editor, Joel Raabe, and our producer, Eric Johnson, who also has enjoyed Lauren's repartee over the many years.
Gone is the witty repartee between Willie and Marcus; in its place is tired back-and-forth insults that have lost their punch.
Not to mention, she eternally provided fans with witty repartee for any run-ins with the Joey "Eat Me" Donners of the world.
When Anna summons the police, she is visited by Conrad Little, an affable and loquacious detective, and engages him in TV-style repartee.
It also prompted users to say a little about each repartee: How old were the people in the conversation, what were their genders?
The colorfully contrasted characters are still abundant, but the repartee is, for the most part, content to be merely snappy, not socially insightful.
Phife Dawg and Q-Tip's repartee was the most obvious manifestation of Tribe's magnetic, brotherly bond, a chemistry that was almost palpable on record.
Whether you're a serial bar-hopper or a regular at your corner watering hole, you've probably established some sort of repartee with the bartenders.
There was even an opportunity for Spithill, Oracle Team USA's skipper, to engage in interview room repartee with his opposing helmsman from New Zealand.
"I was also born first, so I also won that competition," he said, a joke typical of the brothers' repartee both on- and offscreen.
But it lands its jokes and repartee, as well as its more tender moments, in ways that feel a tad reminiscent of the Bard.
The crystalline scatter of Taborn's playing meets Iyer's slightly thicker articulation in a sympathetic repartee; the pair seem to constantly divert their own path.
Depending who you ask, flirting can feel like a delightful game of witty repartee or an awkward conversational dance where no one knows the steps.
The plot consists of bits: a fiery slugfest, a pause for bonding, a quick weep, and a patch of jokey repartee, before the slugging returns.
The fantasies of romance are often robust — powerful men with thighs like tree trunks, bottomless fortunes and tongues like magic (for repartee and darker deeds).
True, there is plenty of repartee between Marianne and Max, some of it flirtatious, some of it concerned with the tools of their merciless trade.
With the outcome of the novel never in doubt, I could savor the language, satire and repartee, the cutting observations cloaked in seemingly innocuous remarks.
I had just spent a Saturday evening behind the booth of his DJ set, going shot for shot on whiskey and exchanging witty repartee. Well.
The duo's playful repartee, regular pranks and chatty chemistry sometimes proved too much of a distraction for filmmaker Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and his crew.
Digital helpmeets like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana are fitted with nonthreatening feminine voices and programmed to respond to sexist comments with cutesy repartee.
He was the guest of the comedian Joe Rogan, an advocate for legalizing marijuana, and the repartee included an exchange over what Mr. Musk was smoking.
Denis, joined by a panel of comedians Shalewa Sharpe, Saurin Choksi, and Liza Treyger, entered a titillating repartee about sex bots and the possible end of humanity.
But before any of this can transpire, we get familiar DeLillo street life, witty repartee in the backs of cabs, rooftop views of the city at dusk.
My snarky repartee is smoother than ever, but in situations when a more heartfelt connection is required, I find that I'm a little out of my element.
Woven into the snappy repartee in this grid there are three theme answers, at 19-, 36-, and 50-Across, with a revealer at 65- and 66-Across.
More than 8,000 people gathered in Birmingham for a common cause: not to trade barbs and witless repartee, but to celebrate the game that they (we) all love.
At its most limber and colorful, the repartee in a Goldman script allowed plenty of room for memorable lines to leap happily into spectators' ears and stay there.
Western audiences usually break out in uproarious laughter at the Kabuki-esque overacting and Microsoft Paint–grade special effects rather than their witty repartee or innovative physical humor.
At this preternaturally elegant new French restaurant from the American chef Daniel Rose, of the highly acclaimed Spring, in Paris, the waitstaff keeps things lively with cheeky repartee.
Her latest album, "Stripped," from 2016, finds her in a raspy repartee with an expert quartet of New York jazz musicians, revisiting some highlights from her back catalog.
" The repartee takes the edge off the loneliness Carter feels: "When you carry stuff like this around, you never know what kind of day it's going to be.
Cool environments and crazy creatures, after all, can't compensate for a pair of lead actors who drive their leaden one-note repartee into the ground for two hours plus.
Nayyem's poise and gift for repartee made him an obvious fit for television, where, as an on-air host, he deployed his natural ease and charm to discomfit politicians.
And then there's this... Although it's not exactly Loreleai and Rory palling around or snapping repartee across a dinner table, it is a very sprightly-looking Ms. Patty's dance studio.
But the negative effect of trash talk may have less to do with the skill of the repartee involved, and more with just the fact that it's happening at all.
There's a limited niche for its use, but if there are aspirational figures in the field of witty repartee, the nonchalant master of the APERÇU must be one of them.
In "Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia," published in 20023, he analyzed the street rhymes and repartee he observed and recorded in South Philadelphia.
This term apparently traces its roots to 1840s New York City, a gentlemanly place where clever repartee established one's place in high society and occasionally earned one a fancy little nickname.
One-line quips and witty repartee would be dangerously distracting in actual mortal combat, but everyone knows most of the combat is not mortal, even by the absurd standards of action films.
"Grease" is not known for its sparkling repartee, and the dialogue in "Grease: Live" -- some of it delivered by cast members who are better singers or dancers than actors -- often fell flat.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron has a reputation for disarming hostile audiences with repartee and humor, but his latest verbal jousting on a trip to Africa has drawn criticism at home.
Their sequined-swathed get-ups, sassy repartee, and cool jazz stylings feel more "now" than ever, making the pair beloved by vintage-styled neo-Rat Pack types and ironic boho babes alike.
He began many of them with halting, staccato phrases on the guitar's bottom three strings, engaging Mr. Tidd in a bubbling repartee before the entire band was eventually pulled into the tangled flow.
Cowell can make the piano dance by playing in a jaggy rhythm, or simply by manipulating the tone of his harmonies, or by throwing his right and left hands into a thrashing repartee.
In Iowa earlier this month, Mr. Biden told reporters that he did not intend to go after other Democrats, and said he expected the overflowing debate stages to yield less than substantive repartee.
To peruse them is to imagine the smoky air and enthused or barbed repartee at clannish openings, which of course still occur (with less smoke) in nether and outer reaches of the city.
She mostly just sat on Kimmy's stoop and yelled at passersby for the fun of it in season one, and Kane's slower delivery has never quite gelled with Kimmy Schmidt's lightning-fast repartee.
Even Asakusa's famous rickshaw pullers, known for their muscular physique and witty repartee that rarely fail to attract the Thais, Chinese and South Koreans who flock to the area, are mostly standing idly by.
Even Asakusa's famous rickshaw pullers, known for their muscular physique and witty repartee that rarely fail to attract the Thais, Chinese and South Koreans who flock to the area, are mostly standing idly by.
That initial black-and-whiteness probably crystallized a central tenet of the show's appeal: that its sumptuous interiors and arch repartee recalled old movies I'd loved, like "Holiday" with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
The affair never happened in real life but the repartee between Meryl and Alec, that familiar, fun, sarcastic, "I get you buddy" vibe — the easy laughter that quickly turns distant — that's kind of us.
Only on his own unaccompanied improvisations, typically wedged between tunes, did he pull the focus off Mr. Ross and Mr. Wilkins — who often took solos away from each other, wrangling in a friendly repartee.
Frisky and Tabby are incapable of verbal repartee, and Sandy Langbourne — a character so real that you just want to smack him right through the TV screen — is just an old, snarly, red-faced thing.
And in April 2015, he wrote that Howard Stern had phoned Donald Trump to tell him about some bawdy repartee that the Fox host Megyn Kelly had engaged in while on Mr. Stern's radio show.
One that he met with offered some tough love: If he ever wanted to get a host job, he needed to put together a video résumé that showed himself engaged in witty repartee with people.
At times, his dazzling piano playing calls Art Tatum to mind; elsewhere, singing lighthearted ditties like "There's No Anesthetic for Love" in a repartee with his trio-mates, he sounds a lot like Louis Jordan.
And thanks to Thomas and Ward's real-life friendship and repartee — Thomas as the chatty wit, Ward as his dry counterpart — their jokes always feel lived-in, their fights justified with years of believable buildup.
Our national poet Walt Whitman sensed the genius of the nation in the banter and repartee of the working class — "the blab of the pave," he called it — and it included rough slang and raucous jokes.
The brief scene in "Marshall," with its cutting repartee, suggests what Hurston admirers have long known: She would have been some kind of star even if she'd never parked her genius in front of a typewriter.
For seven seasons, then an afterlife in syndication and streaming, it poured its audience bottomless refills of small-town quirk and the highly caffeinated repartee of Lorelai and her daughter and best friend, Rory (Alexis Bledel).
Mr. Kirk and Ms. Parker manage to work up some chemistry, but perhaps because their repartee lacks the acidic brilliance necessary, the Bea-and-Ben story line, which usually dominates "Much Ado" productions, fades into the background.
We ask Siri what the weather is like, or tell Alexa to put some music on, but we don't expect sparkling repartee — voice interfaces right now are as sterile as the visual interface they're supposed to replace.
There was no repartee from the U.S. side because our trade experts failed to slip a note to the president to tell him that these investments were financed with the money we gave them to buy German goods.
But it quickly becomes apparent in the glib repartee between the two cooks that they are clueless about Southern cooking, which becomes the cue for the announcement that what Mike and Mary are all about is not Southern.
The characters' rapport and repartee (rapportee?) were like throwbacks to the great "Thin Man" movies, and the series cultivated such a literary vibe during its original seven-year run that websites compiled vast reading lists from its allusions.
But that first guy was a peer, and part of navigating the workplace is to know how to come back with snappy repartee so that he would see that I'm fun, I'm not interested and let's move on.
Yet Monninger's affable prose offers distinct seductions ("the subway station smells like panting") and the platitudinous love affair ("Jack took me to bed in the late afternoon and devoured me") is spiced with sharp repartee and social criticism.
Ami was designed for two purposes: to have natural conversations and dazzle people with her witty cyber repartee, and, much more importantly, to use her immense and ever-evolving command of linguistic nuances to moderate abuse in online games.
Earnings conference calls normally feature a polite repartee between company executives and research analysts and are seldom open to questions from news reporters (CNBC's Phil LeBeau did slip in a question during the October call) much less ordinary investors.
The pleasures of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.—and there are many—come down to the quick repartee, charming flirtation, gorgeous mise-en-scène, and constant turning of tables, where any back can be stabbed by anyone at any time.
Such is the constant repartee between the jovial siblings, teammates on the Islanders starting in 21978, when General Manager Bill Torrey acquired Jean from the Philadelphia Flyers and then drafted Denis several months later with the first overall pick.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday held its first teleconference arguments of the coronavirus era, mounting a remote set-up that proved a shaky but adequate substitute for the usual in-person repartee between judges and lawyers.
Sure, one of their guests, Nick (Luke Treadaway), may remark admiringly of his hosts' gifts for repartee that "you two are pretty good, impressive," but one is left aware that George and Martha's codependency comes at a grievous price.
William Powell and Myrna Loy throw back the martinis and the repartee as Nick and Nora Charles, a retired detective and his heiress wife who, spending Christmas in New York, are roped into the case of a missing businessman.
Wonder Woman has some funny repartee, falling in line with Marvel Cinematic Universe films: at one point, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman archly explains to Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) that men are necessary for biological reproduction, but not for pleasure.
Instead, the film, which stars Lily James, Matt Smith, Lena Headey, and other acclaimed British actors, is a gleeful romp through the world as Austen saw it, a realm of heaving corsets, witty repartee, and verdant meadows glistening in the rain.
"Or that, somehow, maybe it was enough of a change just to see a woman having this kind of intellectual repartee with a man on camera, and surely the audience couldn't deal with actually seeing them walk side by side!"
News anchor repartee is sometimes painfully bad, even on regular TV. So we're going to stick with what brought us to the dance and what we see, and make you feel, hopefully, that what you see is a sporting event.
Guy Hamilton, a director whose emphasis on fast pacing and witty repartee made "Goldfinger" a model for the James Bond films to follow, and who directed three more installments in the series, died on Wednesday on the Mediterranean island of Majorca.
Wearing the uniform of the counterculture — jeans and Birkenstocks — we were overcome by a collective nostalgia for the world depicted in 1930s films: its satin glamour and debonair elegance, its screwball logic and lightning repartee, its catchy tunes and corny lyrics.
It's not just because the music's so central to it, or that it's the kind of place where you can wow a date with your sparkling repartee over a decent cocktail, but because it does all those things with a minimum of fuss.
Cancelled after one season, Lucky Louie relied heavily on ba-dum ching repartee, which was also bad for Adlon, even when she got the punch-line; it forced her to play along, to cooperate with the logic of C.K.'s brand of humor.
With this film, he's back on the comparatively safe ground of Pixar principles: a lively celebrity cast, a fast-moving adventure full of chases and jokey repartee, and a basic humanism that persists even when none of the significant characters are human.
Amid the bizarre mix of personalities and political biographies on the presidential stage this year, Sanders and Klobuchar had this year's most unlikely repartee — a puzzle of compatibility that even their own staffers can't totally decode but cast as illuminating on both sides.
The play, set in the bustling press room of a Windy City courthouse, has spawned multiple TV adaptations, films (including "His Girl Friday," which gender-swapped one of the main characters, adding spice to the rat-a-tat repartee), and Broadway revivals.
Msgr. Thomas J. Hartman, the self-styled straight man of a Catholic-Jewish duo that for a generation traded congenial religious repartee as "The God Squad" on television and radio and in a newspaper column, died on Tuesday in Uniondale, N.Y. He was 69.
KT: Medusa and She-Hulk wouldn't tell the same jokes and they shouldn't sound the same, but they'll still find a repartee between one another in which I feel like I can have their authentic voices and still have them, like, making jokes or whatever.
If, that is, you're old enough to have grown up during the bland period when a domestic sitcom consisted of a husband and wife whose attraction to each other was never convincing and who conversed in setup/punch line repartee of the most predictable sort.
The first nine Republican debates (save the one Trump skipped) were defined by a weird repartee between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump in which the former fecklessly tried to attack the latter only for Trump to respond with brutal insults that utterly deflated Bush.
It could go one of two ways: intoxicating intellectual repartee — the fiercely opinionated Sontag and Fuller would either love or loathe one another, and Carson would sit in unassuming quietude, speaking only rarely and with the perfect, perfectly formulated sentiment — or literary speed dating for queer women.
A stunning beauty with a talent for repartee, she made her way easily into Manhattan's literary salons, and her presence did not pass unnoticed by a long list of editors, publishers, film producers, actors and writers — most of whom made a play for her, quite a few successfully.
If you were asked to name the craziest thing that ever happened to an Aston Martin inside a laboratory, you'd likely invoke some witty repartee between James Bond and Q. But that's only because you don't know how Aston's engineering department developed the roof for the 2018 DB11 Volante.
But the opposite was true of Mr. Hutchings, 33, who put on an even more infectious performance than he had two nights before; he seemed eager and able to fill the room to its rafters, pulling Mr. Boyd and Mr. Cross into a frothy repartee and never letting them flag.
Not only can you talk and interact with HAL, recreating some of the movie's more quotable human-AI repartee, the wall-mounted replica also has Amazon's Alexa built-in, which you can use to check the weather, turn lights on and off, or ask to open the pod bay doors when HAL refuses.
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Kennedy Center Ms. Sumbry-Edwards is a tap dancer with a gift both kinetic and musical, and on a version of "In a Sentimental Mood," featuring the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble, she engaged in agile repartee with the pianist Carmen Staaf, both parties listening and responding deeply.
Melodies become a three-way repartee between Sánchez and the group's two saxophonists, Chris Cheek and Roman Filiu, and on "El Rayo de Luz" — the title track from the quintet's newest album — the overlaying of two time signatures on top of each other lends everything a sense of both imbalance and propulsion.
The brilliance of this turn is that it allows Coetzee to create a kind of fusion genre blending the energy of philosophical dialogue, the warmth and unprogrammed humor of father-son repartee, the emotional potency of a family romance and finally the uncanny suggestion of allegory (womb as ship, birth as disembarkation).
On its final track, MacKay (who's primarily known as an experimental-folk guitarist, if you're looking or a label) toys around with a few broken chords in a curious, wandering descent before settling down into a placid repartee with Klein (a Chicago-based cellist, who's becoming well known in the Western-classical world).
Owen Glieberman, Variety:  John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks, now stepping back from her role as the director of "Pitch Perfect 2," are on hand once again as the play-by-play commentators John and Gail, who are making an inept documentary film, and their whippersnapper repartee is funnier than anything in the last two Christopher Guest films.
Almost every line in the book — except the ones that refer directly to poetry, or that employ four-letter words that would never have been permitted under the Hayes Code — sounds like it could have been lifted from the hard-boiled repartee from some detective flick of the '40s or '50s, or else one of the tougher screwball comedies.
Recorded in the 1990s but never released until now, the album is full of frothy repartee between Ms. Elias and two rhythm sections: On some tracks, it's a trio with the drummer Jack DeJohnette and the bassist Eddie Gomez, and elsewhere a quartet with Marc Johnson on bass, Satoshi Takeishi on drums and Manolo Badrena on percussion.
It happened on Friday, when Michelle Dorrance and Justin Peck joined forces for the world premiere of a tap duet, "They Try to Tell Us," a perfect example of the sweet repartee that can turn tap, with its capacity for give-and-take rapid dialogue, into the medium of tenderly high-spirited feeling between two people.
His biggest recent winners are two NBC programs: "Little Big Shots," in which the comedian Steve Harvey engages in repartee with precocious children; and "Ellen's Game of Games," which features Ellen DeGeneres as a cheerfully sadistic host who dispatches losing contestants to various indignities, like dropping them through trap doors or sending them flying into vats of mashed potatoes.
Humor is not a quality often associated with Vivaldi, but the bassoonist Sergio Azzolini found plenty of it in the fast movements of the Bassoon Concertos in G minor (RV 495) and F (RV 491), in which he turned the repartee between soloist and ensemble into a Tom and Jerry chase, with teasing pauses and keep-up-if-you-can forward rushes.
Fly told me he initially fell in love with The Late Late Show after watching Ferguson's particularly saucy repartee with actress Alice Eve (a video compilation of her Late Late Show appearances on Fly's channel has racked up over 3 million views), and resolved to create his own YouTube hub for Craig content last January after a different channel with a similar brand, "Craig Ferguson and The Ladies," disappeared from the internet.
We had Jay from Brave Shores, Wayne from Cuff The Duke, Bossie (aka Anne Douris who also did all the props and set dec and basically made the thing good), Kenny from Moneen popped in (I think he just wanted to say hi, but I gave him my guitar and left for like 20 minutes, sorry Kenny), Meg from Repartee, the Elwins of course arranged their own incredible version of the song (please record it you guys).

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