English interiors have never been wittier — nor more like excavation sites.
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Talk, while wittier than usual during this astrological cycle, is ultimately cheap.
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Still, it was Darlene's puckish, wittier-than-thou smirk that epitomized her cunning.
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But she's slyly subversive and wittier than her image gives her credit for.
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Billions exists in a universe far faster, far wittier, and far quippier than ours.
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The thrill of the scene is how it's wittier than you were expecting it be.
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Its first joke is a spit-take, and it doesn't get any wittier than that.
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"Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin," an anthology of his wittier journalism and poetry, appeared in 2011.
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And to lighten the evening, Peter De Vries, the only American novelist wittier than Mark Twain.
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" As Wayne says, he's "wittier than comedy, nigga write a parody / but I ain't tellin' jokes... apparently.
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Mercury also enters Capricorn, finding you in a much drier, wittier moon when it comes to communication!
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"The princess was royal, but Tony was magnetic, and wittier," Ms. de Courcy wrote in her biography.
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With just a tap of the screen, Snapchat will transform your selfie into something instantly hotter, cuter, wittier.
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It sounded like a cross between Devon and Belfast, but it revealed the colours and made the words wittier.
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But I ended up wanting to do something wittier than navigating the boundaries of the legal definition of harassment.
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The Whitney has unparalleled holdings by this artist, but this is a different sort of Calder show, wittier and wilier.
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The fool: Feste in "Twelfth Night" Ten times as educated as the aristocrats he entertains, Feste is one of Shakespeare's wittier clowns.
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"Anything said quickly can seem wittier than it is!" insists a MADtv parody, as its faux Gilmore girls trade quips at breakneck speed.
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Ms. Clare's characters are tougher and wittier than the lugubrious Bella and Edward of "Twilight" fame, and her female protagonists are smart and sassy.
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But what if we were to give you a carefully curated catalog of books that were guaranteed to make you wiser, wittier, and unabashedly woke?
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Jaden Smith toting his gold plaque for his hit "Icon," for example (wittier than Sarah Jessica Parker's gold headdress, a literal interpretation of a nativity scene).
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He had begun his career as a waggish writer for the conservative Weekly Standard , and his television segments tended to be wittier and shrewder than his competitors'.
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It's here that the vibe relaxes and the picture's filigree becomes brighter and wittier as extras with puffball hairdos straight out of Dr. Seuss light up the background.
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While you're at it, check out Gail Collins and Bret Stephens in conversation about the meaning of government, because Gail makes every conversation she's in wittier and smarter.
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Funnily enough, that clue was left on the cutting room floor, though I am thankful for some of the much wittier clues that the editing team added elsewhere.
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We caption photos like we are debuting our first article in the New York Times, picking each word closely and carefully, making sure we sound wittier in writing than in person.
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"The art here used to be angry and unsightly but now it's wittier…there's resignation but there's energy, too," says Michael Landy, a British artist, who worked in Athens earlier this year.
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With comedians still getting to grips with the Trump shitshow and country musicians mostly ignoring it, Nelson is wittier, more foul-mouthed, and more incisive than most of his far younger peers.
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Hillary Clinton will sit there and she will have someone who is much wittier than her write every possible line to every possible conceivable scenario and she will memorize it and she'll regurgitate it.
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With Amazon predicted to control 70% of the home assistant market, Google wants to use its AI smarts and partnerships to make its Home platform wittier and more dynamic than anything else out there.
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"Witchcraft," part of the 92nd Street Y's venerable Lyrics and Lyricists series, focuses on his seldom-heard stand-alone pop songs, many of which are wittier and more refined than his brash, swinging show tunes.
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"The vibe relaxes and the picture's filigree becomes brighter and wittier as extras with puffball hairdos straight out of Dr. Seuss light up the background," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in The New York Times.
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But it is still a viewable document, a vintage broadcast by CBS, with Ray Scott calling the first half with Frank Gifford, and Jack Whitaker taking over in the third quarter with a friendlier, wittier play call.
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For Lifetime, "You" -- already renewed for a second season -- thus feels like a shrewd evolution of its much-lampooned women-in-jeopardy formula into something more ambitious, wittier, and in its jaundiced way, just a little bit unnerving.
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To be fair, "A Quiet Passion" is wittier, in its early stretches, than anyone might have foreseen, but it's when the door closes, and the Dickinsons are alone with their trepidations, that the movie draws near to its rightful severity.
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But such additions to the dialogue are, on balance, less successful than many of Frljic's wittier staging ideas, such as a magic trick in which an Austrian flag locked in the coffin transforms into an endless ream of various European flags sewn together.
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After their vacation goes awry, the movie becomes a B-action buddy comedy with a fair amount of laughs (some wittier and well-earned, others cheap gags) and more of that fantastic chemistry between the two stars as they trek through the Amazon jungle.
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This sweet Canadian comedy wielded the best tool at its disposal — a genius writing team led by co-creators Eugene and Daniel Levy — to transform a fairly unknown show into a warmer, wittier version of itself by the time it reached Season 5, which premiered on POP TV last month.
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Wittier and infused with a sweeter disposition than the average big-screen comic book adaptation — though still plenty violent — del Toro's movie casts Ron Perlman ("Sons of Anarchy") as the title character, a demon with a devil tail whose origins involve both Grigori Rasputin and an interdimensional portal built by Nazis.
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The wittier possibilities of following a group of plugged-in kids are scuttled as soon as it's revealed that there's no WiFi or cell coverage—no hashtag #witchhunt or Snapchatted vignettes of creepy trees—but overall there's so much more Wingard could have done in the context of our current selfie-obsessed moment.
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For years Stephen Colbert was the model avatar for this brand of characterized pundit speak: cantankerous, illogically hilarious, exceedingly confident, and never quick to back down—it was like watching a wittier, more high-brow Bill O'Reilly pick apart the people-first evangelism of liberal DC. During The Colbert Report's run, from 2005 to 2014, the hypocrisies that fermented out of Fox News and homogenous conservative media were obvious and embarrassing.
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The same is true, of course, of Mr. Johansson's countryman Thomas Ulsrud and fellow members of the curling team, whose buff bodies have been turned into a hottie calendar, while the Loudmouth brand trousers they debuted at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 — plaid, polka-dot, floral and checked patterns reminiscent of Crazy Uncle Mort — have since evolved into one of the wittier continuing fashion statements in sports.
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Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4. He praised the chemistry between the lead actors and enjoyed the dialogue, but considered it a near-miss, wishing for a wittier, more clever ending.
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The film tells the story of the legendary Odessa's Robin Hood, Mikhail (Moshe-Yaakov) Vinnitsky. He came out of prison, returned to Odessa and cobble together their own band. Mishka Yaponchik becomes king of thieves. His raids become more wittier.
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']" and stands easily alongside the best work on 1989. Entertainment Weeklys Eric Renner Brown gave it a B+, citing that "she's back on top" with "Gorgeous." Richard S. He of Billboard said the song's verses are "Swift at her pettiest", realizing she was playing a character and has "never been wittier.
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Boyle's An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. (2016), written under the pseudonym "Jack Robinson", was featured in The Guardians "Nicholas Lezard's choice" column in April 2017, with Lezard concluding: "I can't think of a wittier, more engaging, stylistically audacious, attentive and generous writer working in the English language right now".
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The reviewer for Paris-programme said that the piece would attract all Paris. "This musical fantasy is indescribable, it must be seen to appreciate it properly. There is nothing wittier, funnier, more coquettish, better imagined, better played, than Fleur-de-Thé." The critic added that Lecocq's score would provoke Hervé and Offenbach to envy.
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Variation 16 continues from Variation 15 as a "variation of variation",Musgrave p. 55. repeating the pattern of two high eighth notes followed by a run of lower sixteenth notes. It also forms another pairing with Variation 17. Baroque contrapuntal techniques appear again in this canon, described by Malcolm MacDonald as "wittier" than the canon of Variation 6.
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Reportedly Nedham obtained an audience with King Charles I, and gained a royal pardon. Despite his history of writing parliamentary propaganda, he was commissioned to print a Royalist periodical, Mercurius Pragmaticus, starting in September 1647 and continuing for two years. It has been claimed as "one of the wittier and less ephemeral" of the "Cavalier weeklies". see p. 595.
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Moreover, the expressive view which is represented in Donald Murray's article "Teach Writing as a Process Not Product", allows for wittier creating and freer movement.Murray, Donald M. "Teach Writing as a Process Not Product." Cross-Talk in Comp Theory, A Reader, 3rd ed. Edited by Victor Villanueva and Kristin L. Arola, National Council of Teachers of English, 2011, pp 3-6.
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John L. Scot, reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, found the basic story trite. But also praised the charm of Doris Day and her ability to sell a tune, while also favoring the comedy performance of Eve Arden. Richard L. Coe, reviewer of The Washington Post, called the film a "supremely dull achievement". He found Arden's character wittier and more human than that of Doris Day.
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Steve Martin had always been a fan of the José Ferrer version of Cyrano de Bergerac: > I remember just thinking it was the greatest thing I ever saw. I think it's > because the character is so strong. He's like a very smart version of what, > coincidentally, is popular in movies today. He's smarter than everybody > else, quicker than everybody else, wittier than everybody else and tops > everybody.
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They seem like people you could know but, of course, wittier... It is a treat." While Simon Wilson agreed with the well structured writing, saying; "(The writing) is witty, it's sharp, it's very tightly put together. The people are walking clusters of mistakes and they are trying to come to terms with that and deal with that. The series will become a celebration of friendship and where friendships might lead.
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Stephen Holden, however, writing for The New York Times, believed that the final scenes were a "[sure] sign of the movie's integrity". TV Guide's Ken Fox similarly admired the more "real" ending, and wrote that the film was "sharp, observant ... [and] wonderfully dry". Desson Thomson of The Washington Post praised Blitz for straying from common stereotypes and "opt[ing] for deeper, darker and wittier developments". Other reviews were less positive.
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'The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Wimsey's Biblical quotation is from John 4: 9. Sayers also alludes to the rivalry in Murder Must Advertise (1933): Mr Ingleby, a Trinity man, comments, "If there is one thing more repulsive than another it is Balliolity." One of the wittier raids from Balliol, in 1962 or 1963, involved the turfing of the whole of Trinity JCR (complete with daffodils).
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"Noel Coward's 'Home Chat' at the Duke of York's", Illustrated London News, 5 November 1927, p. 840 In The Observer, St John Ervine took a similar view: "Had Mr Coward spent another week in writing his play it would have been a much wittier one than it is. It might also have been less open to the reproach that it fails to deal with credible persons".Ervine, St John.
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Brett Uddenberg of URB gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, describing it as "a showcase of two of the west coast's wittier spitters stepping into a vocal booth and polishing their collective smirk into some bizarre gems." Jeff Weiss of Los Angeles Times called it "a smart, subversive swag-rap record." It was included on Pitchforks year-end "Overlooked Mixtapes" list, as well as Alarms "50 Unheralded Albums from 2011" list.
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Weller had a triple heart bypass operation in 2012, after which his enthusiasm for playing never fully returned. His account of "We'll Be Together Again" at fellow musician Bobby Wellins' funeral in late 2016 was, in saxophonist Art Themen’s words, “incredibly moving and eerily prescient”. It has been said that Weller "made jazz richer, wittier and more warmly invigorating." He died in his home town of Croydon in Surrey on May 30, 2020 aged 79.
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In his review of "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" the TV Critic called the writing in the episode wittier than in previous ones. He found the Stewie storyline very enjoyable, and also commented positively on the moral of the story. He criticized the Meg storyline as he did not find mass suicide funny; he also commented that Peter felt a lot like Homer from The Simpsons. In his final comments he said it had some odd moments but it was a fun story.
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Crosbie is handsome and well-regarded in London society. Bell and Lily are impressed by Crosbie's charm and worldliness and Lily, the younger and wittier sister, labels him an Apollo. She and Crosbie grow increasingly intimate during his stay at Allington and before leaving he proposes to her. Mrs. Dale has no money for a dowry, but Crosbie thinks the squire might provide Lily with some fortune given that, in many ways, he treats her and Bell as if they were his daughters.
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Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association in 1996. The president of the association in 2019, the romance writer Katie Fforde, considers Pilcher to be "groundbreaking as she was the first to bring family sagas to the wider public". Felicity Bryan, in her obituary for The Guardian, writes that Pilcher took the romance genre to "an altogether higher, wittier level"; she praises Pilcher's work for its "grittiness and fearless observation" and comments that it is often more prosaic than romantic. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.
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Jones stated in an interview that he thought k-os' comments were a "lame response", and that "a five-year-old could come up with something wittier". k-os and Danko shared a rehearsal space and often had in depth conversations during their breaks outside the rehearsal space. He was very disappointed that someone whom he considered a friend spoke out in the press before trying to contact him first. On October 10, 2006, Atlantis: Hymns For Disco was released in Canada, with a global release scheduled on February 6, 2007.
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Prior to that, she was online restaurant editor for New York Magazine and an assistant cookbook editor at Workman. With Raphael Brion, she co-founded the food blog Eat Me Daily, which "carved out a vital place in a crowded food blog world by being smarter, wittier, and faster than everyone else," according to Rosner's colleague, Eater co-founder Lockhart Steele. Rosner and Brion initially wrote the blog under pseudonyms. Rosner's essay "On Chicken Tenders," published in Guernica, won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Journalism award for Personal Essay.
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Aldous Huxley spent some time here before he wrote Crome Yellow, a book which contains a ridiculous character obviously intended as a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell; she never forgave him. In Confidence, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, portrays the "wits of Garsington" some four years before Crome Yellow, and wittier than Huxley according to Mansfield's biographer Antony Alpers. Published in The New Age of 24 May 1917, it was not reprinted until 1984, in Alper's collection of her short stories. Five young gentlemen are having a drawing-room argument, observed by Isobel and Marigold: "Aren't men extraordinary" says Marigold.
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Marc Hogan of Pitchfork criticized the band for its songwriting, melodies and Christian symbolism, saying that "Robbers and Cowards insults our intelligence a few times too often." Cat Dirt Sez of the San Diego CityBeat said that Hogan's review was an example of lazy journalism, with lead guitarist Jonnie Russell saying that the reviewer wanted a wittier approach to the album rather than a thoughtful assessment of it. The album was ranked number 30 by Rolling Stone on their list of Best Albums of 2006 and number 40 on Spins list of The 40 Best Albums of 2006.
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97 Newsday's Les Payne observed, "Oprah Winfrey is sharper than Donahue, wittier, more genuine, and far better attuned to her audience, if not the world" and Martha Bayles of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "It's a relief to see a gab-monger with a fond but realistic assessment of her own cultural and religious roots." Winfrey in 1997 In the early years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the program was classified as a tabloid talk show. In the mid-1990s, Winfrey began to host shows on broader topics such as heart disease, geopolitics, spirituality, and meditation.
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Cannon was publicly criticized for his implementation of the new laws, especially in East Tennessee, where voters grew impatient over his lack of support for the Hiwassee Railroad. In 1839, state Democrats, determined to defeat Cannon, convinced rising politician and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives James K. Polk to run against him. The two candidates toured the state together to give a series of public debates, the first of which took place at Murfreesboro on April 11, 1839. Cannon typically delivered slower, more methodical arguments, and was outshone in the debates by the quicker and wittier Polk.
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It was when Stephen K. Amos said: "If we don't win I'm going to play the race card," and someone else said: "As usual." Nick Smurthwaite wrote in The Stage that: "It wouldn't have mattered that chairman Simon Mayo's scoring was fashionably arbitrary if he'd made a wittier contribution, or helped the contestants out when they were floundering. Any panel game that is reduced to knock-knock jokes in its first outing is going to struggle to find an audience." Readers of the British Comedy Guide voted Act Your Age the "Worst British Radio Panel Show / Satire 2008" in the Comedy.co.
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" The Hollywood Reporter concurred, calling Luster "[r]oughly made and unevenly acted" with little in the way of storyline. "The lack of a meaningful story would be easier to take if the dialogue was wittier or the characterizations were deeper, but the proceedings are instead surprisingly bland considering the outrageousness of many of the situations." Conversely, the Los Angeles Times said that Luster "lives up to its title as a fresh, bittersweet look at the pursuit of love..." populated by "attractive, appealing people." The reviewer further states Luster has a "charming, skittish quality, and Lewis finds pathos and humor in his characters' often painful search for love.
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It has fleeting multi-tracked harmonies, a non-sequitur chorus, and Ocean's occasionally fractured breathiness conveying an addict's voice. "Pyramids" is cited by writers as the album's centerpiece. Brice Ezell from PopMatters wrote that it denotes "the vital midpoint of the overarching narrative", where "the wittier tone of the record's front half gives way to an emotionally dense second half." Veering from synth-funk to slow jam styles, the song has a lyrical conceit that uses Ancient Egyptian and Biblical imagery, and contrasts the legendary fall of Cleopatra with the circumstances of a latter-day working girl, who dances at a strip club called the Pyramid to support her man's gaudy aspirations.
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Some critics said that the play's reputation for immorality was overstated, contending it was harmless or even boring. A reviewer writing for The Sun, for example, said it was "not as shocking as Manager Woods would like theatre goers to believe", while a review in The New York Clipper said that the plot was more pure than the realities of Hollywood and relied on "sweet little risque 'bits' and a super-abundance of suggestive lines" to keep audience interest. In The Washington Post, Percy Hammond described it as entertaining, saying Hopwood had "never been wittier". Burns Mantle said Hopwood and Woods had substituted uninteresting stripping and lewd dialogue for better plotting and humor.
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After the wedding, she was also given the post of designate Dame du Palais (lady-in- waiting) to the future bride of the crown prince and 6000 livres;François Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye Desbois, Dictionnaire de la noblesse ... de France though the crown prince was not yet even married, this gave her an official place in the court hierarchy. The new marquise de Ventimille soon became pregnant by the king. Pauline Félicité was described as taller, louder and wittier than her older sister. She was much more ambitious than her older sister and predecessor, and demonstrated a desire for money and political influence; her arrogance quickly made her hated within the court and by the public.
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In September 2006, Siegel was suspended from The New Republic after an internal investigation determined he was participating in misleading comments in the magazine's "Talkback" section in response to criticisms of his blog postings at The New Republic's website. The comments were made through the device of a "sock puppet" dubbed "sprezzatura", who, as one reader noted, was a consistently vigorous defender of Siegel, and who specifically denied being Siegel when challenged by another commenter in "Talkback". In response to readers who had criticized Siegel's negative comments about TV talk show host Jon Stewart, 'sprezzatura' wrote, "Siegel is brave, brilliant, and wittier than Stewart will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep".
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The play begins with voyeuristic means: the, seemingly omniscient, narrator stumbles upon two witty lovers on a hilly knoll close to a river. The young man—the first of the two speaking roles—professes his love for a fair, wealthy maiden—the second and wittier. She is reluctant to comply with this wishes to be married, and replies that love, "is like a fishers angle,/ which oft hath golden baites, silly maidens to intangle." The young man continues to profess his adoration and enchantment with the maid, but she can see through his falsity—she acknowledges that young men constantly chase after young women, vocalizing their love, but are only interested in the woman's virginity.
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Cold War Kids released their debut album Robbers & Cowards on October 11, 2006. The album garnered a largely positive reception from critics, but Marc Hogan of Pitchfork criticized the band for its songwriting, melodies and Christian symbolism, saying that "Robbers and Cowards insults our intelligence a few times too often." Cat Dirt Sez of the San Diego CityBeat said that Hogan's review was an example of lazy journalism, with lead guitarist Jonnie Russell saying that the reviewer wanted a wittier approach to the album rather than a thoughtful assessment of it. To promote the album, the band spent most of 2007 touring across North America and Europe through appearances at music festivals and talk shows.
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He specifically wished to create a buffa comedy opera which included a seria female part for contrast; Taruskin suggests that "Da Ponte's special gift was that of forging this virtual smorgasbord of idioms into a vivid dramatic shape." David Cairns examines Da Ponte's reworking of the scenario for Don Giovanni, (originally written by Giovanni Bertati and performed in Venice as Don Giovanni Tenorio, with music by Gazzaniga, in 1787). Cairns points out that "the verbal borrowings are few", and that Da Ponte is at every point "wittier, more stylish, more concise and more effective." Moreover, Da Ponte's restructuring of the action enables a tighter format giving better opportunities for Mozart's musical structures.
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" DVD Talk offered that the film is "a lowbrow talking head comedy with a wittier than average script", and for "a first time director, Ricardo could have done much worse. His script is good, and he gets good performances from his three lead actresses." In making comparisons between Ricardo and directors such as Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood who have acted in films they were also directing, they made note that Ricardo's own lead performance as a deadpan Opie was serviceable, but had a stiffness that a director not himself in front of the camera might have caught. They summarized by stating the film "is a quirky romantic comedy about sex that has no sex and stars a cast of unknowns.
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Bustle's James Tison agreed that Monica is the show's most relatable character. Referring to Monica as one-half of the series' "head friends," the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Robert Bianco described the character as sensible, explaining that both her and brother Ross represent "the relatively stable centers around which the other friends rotate." Describing her as "ultra-competent," Natural Living Todays Emily Nussbaum likened Monica to the fairy tale character Snow White, on whose homemaking skills the five other main characters heavily rely, similar to the relationship between Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Although Monica began Friends as the show's straight person, the writers eventually made her funnier by incorporating aspects of Cox's own personality into the character, in addition to writing wittier material for her.
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AllMusic praised the lyrics on the album citing lyrics from the track "Piano Man": They also positively commented on Tony Yayo's style saying "Yayo has never sounded so good, stepping his game up with a faster and more urgent style dropping wittier lines", citing his lyrics on the title track, "I kick Game like Pele and Beckham". ReverbNation have noted that "No Days Off" features a funky 1964 style baseline whilst maintaining the use of synthesized effects and have described it as "Instant riding music". Similarly, they have said that "Kitty Kat" features an "irresistible island-flavored flow" whilst "The Piano Man" is dark and sardonic. MTV stated that "The Party Ain't Over" is reminiscent of "I Get Money", and denounces talk of the group's demise.
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Pearce, in contrast, found the English cast to be pretty bad and its Excel to be "dental drill shrill". Akadot's reviewer of the manga writes that "some of the strange events go on a little too long and do not have the impact that they do animated," but that Rikdo's Excel Saga is "graced with fantastic visuals and a hilarious story," and that the English edition is "a masterpiece of the translator's skill." Barb Lien-Cooper from Comic World News concurs that the manga cannot keep pace with the anime, but she finds Excel herself to be wittier in the manga and that the manga's plots make more sense than the anime's. A reviewer of the French edition also praises Rikdo's work, noting that it is an "...easy read without problems of clarity".
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Additionally, the film occasionally follows Scrat, a speechless "saber-toothed squirrel" voiced by Wedge who is perpetually searching for a place in the ground to bury his acorn. Ice Age was originally intended as a 2D animated film developed by Fox Animation Studios, but eventually became the first full-length animated film for the newly- reformed Blue Sky, which had been reshaped from a VFX house to a computer animation studio. Focus shifted from making an action-adventure drama film to a more comedy-oriented one, and several writers, such as Michael Berg and Peter Ackerman, were brought on to bring out a wittier tone. Upon release, Ice Age received mostly positive reviews and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, losing to Spirited Away.
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Grease received mostly positive reviews from film critics and is considered by many as one of the best films of 1978. The New York Times Vincent Canby, on its initial release in June 1978, called the film "terrific fun", describing it as a "contemporary fantasy about a 1950s teen-age musical--a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own"; Canby pointed out that the film was "somewhat in the manner of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which recalls the science-fiction films of the '50s in a manner more elegant and more benign than anything that was ever made then, Grease is a multimillion-dollar evocation of the B-picture quickies that Sam Katzman used to turn out in the '50s (Don't Knock the Rock, 1956) and that American International carried to the sea in the 1960s (Beach Party, 1963)." Gene Siskel gave the film three stars out of four, calling it "exciting only when John Travolta is on the screen" but still recommending it to viewers, adding, "Four of its musical numbers are genuine showstoppers that should bring applause."Siskel, Gene (June 16, 1978).
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