withering remark

She stared at him, tried to formulate any number of withering remarks.

I wanted to make a withering remark, but I couldn't think of one.

In that brief moment, no one jumped in with a joke or a withering remark.

There were, however, plenty of withering remarks.

He didn't add his normal withering remark.

She is the master of the withering remark and is hypercritical of nearly everything I do or say.

When things go wrong, Mr. Cameron does tend to yell or make withering remarks.

But, as several people noted, Judge Parker had not focused on race in his withering remarks today, just the government's tactics and misleading actions.

Pangloss's messenger made a withering remark, then gestured first to me, then to the door.

Worn down by the miserable business of negotiating through lawyers, and still smarting from John's withering remark about winning the pools, I accepted his offer.

And all this showed, of course, in the way she rip-ripped around the brilliant glassine room, in the way she smiled at all his withering remarks.

However, Mr. Fernandez managed to undercut Mr. Zedillo's homey appeal with a withering remark.

As Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Kaufman's style of strong cross-examination and withering remarks to witnesses gained some renown.

Ms. Alexander asked and quickly answered: "She knew how to read the world around her, how to navigate narrow straits - and come up with a withering remark at any given moment.

Andrew Hall played the laid-back son Russell to perfection in the television situation comedy series Butterflies: he was tall, good-looking, streetwise and fill of withering remarks aimed at his middle-aged parents.

Theorists of representative government are simply apologists for the bourgeoisie: 'We need not linger on the fiction of 'popular representation'- poppycock grinds no flour' was Pareto's withering remark.

Representative Bill Thomas of California, who can accelerate from disagreement to outright scorn faster than anyone on Capitol Hill, had a characteristically withering remark this week for a provision he disliked in a Senate tax bill.