She has written her way to the top of the industry, bon mot by rapid bon mot.
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" He adds another bon mot from William Butler Yeats: "In dreams begin responsibility.
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He could turn an elegant phrase and toss off a pithy bon mot.
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But on Tuesday, the droll bon mot may have been more practice than pun.
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But the people best at it used it to revive the bon mot, the aperçu, the printed mike drop.
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Difficult though Garland's circumstances are, her ability to win over an audience and deliver a bon mot is unhampered.
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But Moore was lethal from 270 paces, armed with nothing more than a cocked eyebrow and a saucy bon mot.
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" The billboard sponsor's website (here) contains more satire including the bon mot, "Need to buy a politician, the Media, or a law?
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In particular, I loved watching Goodman snarl at Theron and then seeing how she undercut him with a perfectly icy bon mot.
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And if there was some sort of sexual double entendre in that bon mot, well, all the better for an 280-year-old.
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Barely a week passes without his lobbing a missile at Theresa May in the form of a newspaper article, speech, bon mot (or faux pas).
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Rudy Giuliani's latest bon mot is a reminder, if anyone needed it, that calling the Trump administration Orwellian isn't hyperbole, it's just a statement of fact.
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They also say to "fake it 'til you make it," but one assumes this isn't quite what the architect of that particular bon mot had in mind.
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For the first time in ages, I thought I would actually get through the magazine without an inane, sarcastic bon mot criticizing our country or President Trump.
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Mr. Levitas, customarily serious-minded, was known to surprise colleagues on occasion with just a hint of a wry smile as he insouciantly dropped a bon mot.
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The word MOT simply means "word," so a witty rejoinder, to me, would have to be "bon MOT," unless the phrase has been shortened when using it colloquially.
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Ms. Vanderpump ordered tea at the Plaza, but on the show she's best known for spilling it, aided by her quick wit and way with a bon mot.
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Out of context, their hysteria provides the perfect reaction GIF for that moment when you're overwhelmed by the ultimate diss, mic drop, witty bon mot, or other supremely badass event.
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Dressed impeccably, a slight smile on his face, a gun in his hand, a beautiful woman by his side, and a clever bon mot reflecting his sybaritic lifestyle on his lips.
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Downton Abbey "Downton Abbey" has poured its last cup of tea, strapped its last traveling case to the car, dispatched its last awkward reaction shot to a mildly witty bon mot.
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Yet he was often perceived — and sometimes derided — by Israelis as different, an old-world gentleman sensitive about his image, a poet and master of the bon mot in a raucous land.
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This was a tired old book — a bon mot defense of the leadership class, a tribute to the stupidity of its critics, a premise Al Franken had already beat to death twice over.
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Victoria is more concerned with making bon mot about how newly invented postage stamps require her people to lick her face than she is with how the poor live in the country she supposedly runs.
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Neither of these ideas are offensive in themselves, but in a context where there is seemingly nothing that cannot be encompassed by a bon mot from Will Rogers, Civilization VI starts to suffer from a sense of smallness and small-mindedness.
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Following an unlikely group of time-traveling vigilantes, Legends of Tomorrow brings together an eclectic cast that includes a visibly enthused Victor Garber; the delightful Brandon Routh; and, most importantly, Wentworth Miller as the scenery-chewing, bon mot–tossing, debonair Captain Cold.
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Mr. Nicholls deals with the books' reliance on interior monologue and description by putting snippets of Mr. St. Aubyn's prose into the characters' mouths as conventional dialogue, sometimes to salvage an acerbic bon mot but often just to get in background information.
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" The sexism and politics of pockets: Writing for The Spectator in 2011, Paul Johnson offers a witty, thumbnail history of the sartorial convention of the pocket, and he caps his piece with a 1954 Christian Dior bon mot: "Men have pockets to keep things in, women for decoration.
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Mollie Hemingway, a writer with the Federalist, one of the media outlets most in line with the spirit of Trump-era conservatism, offered a bon mot over the weekend that made it clear she believes Kavanaugh stands accused of nothing more than what you'd expect from any red-blooded American man in a social situation.
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" On Tuesday, Michaels appeared on The Wendy Williams Show, chastised Williams for fasting, and then dropped this bon mot on the state of body positivity today: "There was so much fat-shaming for such a long time that now the pendulum has swung to a place where it's like, 'You are 250 pounds and you're owning it!
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During a hearing Wednesday on an exceedingly dull (but also kind of important) subject of whether to privatize the Federal Aviation Administration, Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA) dropped this bon mot as a way to criticize Republicans for attempting to take away airspace control away from the Department of Defense (DOD): "DOD's role in this privatization proposal is undeveloped, undermined and uncertain," Larsen said.
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So for a while, I knew only the hazy outlines of the story: that Patrick Melrose, the main character (loosely based on St. Aubyn himself) is an opiate addict living in 1980s London (and later, a reformed man grappling with the banality of sobriety), a child of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his aristocratic father, and also a pretentious blue blood with a permanent snarl and a scathing bon mot never more than a sentence away.
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"good appetite"; "enjoy your meal". ; bon mot (pl. bons mots) : well-chosen word(s), particularly a witty remark ("each bon mot which falls from his lips is analysed and filed away for posterity", The European Magazine, August 29 – September 4, 1996) ; bon vivant: one who enjoys the good life, an epicurean. ; bon voyage: lit.
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In 2010, O'Connell formed the production company Bon Mot Productions, the first series under the company was the third and final season of The Suite Life on Deck.
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In particular, John Wain emphasizes Tyers's description of Johnson as "like a ghost. He never speaks unless he is spoken to",Wain 1974 p. 246 which Wain considered a "bon mot".Wain 1974 p.
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Boston; Webster Obsequies--New-England > Earthquake--Webster memorial--General Pierce's "Bon Mot"--Yankee Literature, > &c.; New York Daily Times, December 3, 1852. p.3. After the Pictorial, Gleason published Gleason's Literary Companion 1860-70; Gleason's Home Circle 1871-90; and Gleason's Monthly Companion 1872-87\. He retired in 1890.
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His life was often in danger, and he received a letter from Louis XVI on 3 February 1791, recommending greater circumspection and prudence.Fisquet, p. 563. Poujolat, pp. 197-198. But his ready wit always saved him, and it was said that one bon mot would preserve him for a month.
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In the course of the hunt his party came across a beggar with terrible scarring in the place of eyes. The beggar explained that he had raised a raven for three years with affection and great care, but it attacked him one day, leaving him blind. The bon mot was Don Álvaro's reply.Stone, Spanish Cinema, p.
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Driscoll was possessed of a great wit and talent with words. He was affectionately known among his many admirers as "Grin-Chuckle", and everyone expected a bon mot or a pun from him. His epigrams were very pungent, and many of his witty sayings were remembered long after his death by the old citizens of Montreal. He was also an apt poet, and if all his epigrams and satires, etc.
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Ridden by Lester Piggott, Aunt Edith started at odds of 7/2 against four opponents. She became the first female to win the race as she defeated the Irish Derby winner Sodium by half a length with Prominer two lengths further back in third and the American horse Hill Rise in fourth. On her only subsequent appearance, Aunt Edith finished eighth behind Bon Mot in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
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Many episodes have a very brief "after school" scene in the kitchen between June and Wally. Wally arrives home and finds his mother preparing dinner; he regales her with teenspeak banter about the day's events at school. Then, as Wally leaves the room with a parting bon mot and the canned laughter kicks in, the camera catches June's bewildered, dazed, or amused facial expression. A few episodes deal with Wally's teen taste in hairstyles and clothing.
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An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting story about a biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always presented as based on a real incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place; whether authentic or not, it has verisimilitude or truthiness. Over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true".
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During the late 1880s, Vivian was a friend of Oscar Wilde, and they dined together on several occasions. It was at one of these dinners that Vivian claimed he witnessed a famous exchange between Wilde and James NcNeill Whistler. Whistler said a bon mot that Wilde found particularly witty, Wilde exclaimed that he wished that he had said it, and Whistler retorted "You will, Oscar, you will". In 1889, Vivian published this anecdote in his article The Reminiscences of a Short Life which appeared in The Sun.
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136 In 1864 Saint-Saëns caused some surprise by competing a second time for the Prix de Rome. Many in musical circles were puzzled by his decision to enter the competition again, now that he was establishing a reputation as a soloist and composer. He was once more unsuccessful. Berlioz, one of the judges, wrote: According to the musical scholar Jean Gallois, it was apropos of this episode that Berlioz made his well-known bon mot about Saint-Saëns, "He knows everything, but lacks inexperience" ("Il sait tout, mais il manque d'inexpérience").
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Upon the occasion of his taking the oath as chief rabbi, administered by the government officials, his hat was handed him to cover himself. He refused it with a smile, saying: "God does not wish to impose upon us the duty of approaching Him bareheaded; but if we do so voluntarily, so much the better!"Compare Leviticus Rabbah 27:6 This cannot be regarded simply as a bon mot; for he did not hesitate publicly to declare himself in accord with the reform tendencies which were then beginning to force their way into the Synagogue.
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Joseph Smith, a man of obscure origins, was educated at Westminster School before travelling to Venice. Smith took up residence in 1700 in the import-export trade and merchant banking house of Thomas Williams, the British consul; he eventually headed the partnership of Williams and Smith and made a modest fortune.Horace Walpole remarked of him in passing as "The Merchant of Venice", who knew nothing of his books save their titlepages, but the bon mot seems undeserved, according to the original 1897 Dictionary of National Biography, s.v. "Smith, Joseph".
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David Bianculli of the Daily News called Mad Mad House a "bad bad show" (a bon mot that other reviewers would also make). Comparing the series to previous ones produced by Smith and Weed, including Paradise Hotel and Forever Eden, Bianculli pronounced Mad Mad House to be "their worst work yet". He mocked the contestants and berated the alts as "losers".'MAD MAD' LOONS LOOK GEEK TO ME SciFi's 'House' is 'alt' and tired Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times found the series "unsettling" and "ghoulish" but wondered if it might lead middle America to examine the casualness of their religious beliefs.
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He complains of "dharma failed him" on the day of his death, yet in his abuse of Draupadi, he himself ignores the dharma. He is a victim of his circumstances beyond his choosing, as much as the cause of circumstances that victimize other flawed heroes of the epic. His life story raises compassion, sorrow with an impending sense of destruction and fear (phobos and eleos) in the audience, as any good tragic drama. According to the Indologist Daniel Ingalls, the Karna character refutes the "bon mot that Indian poets knew no tragedy" before the colonial British introduced European literature to the Indians.
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A speech of his on the civil list after the Revolution is cited by Macaulay as a proof that his reputation as a man of wit and ability was deserved. His bon mot at the expense of James II is well known. The king had seduced his daughter and created her countess of Dorchester, whereupon Sedley said: "As the king has made my daughter a countess, the least I can do, in common gratitude, is to assist in making his Majesty's daughter (Mary) a queen". Sedley is also occasionally associated with a notorious gang of unbridled revellers who called themselves Ballers and who were active between 1660 and 1670.
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Wilde in 1889 During the late 1880s, Wilde was a close friend of the artist James McNeill Whistler and they dined together on many occasions. At one of these dinners, Whistler said a bon mot that Wilde found particularly witty, Wilde exclaimed that he wished that he had said it, and Whistler retorted "You will, Oscar, you will". Herbert Vivian—a mutual friend of Wilde and Whistler— attended the dinner and recorded it in his article The Reminiscences of a Short Life which appeared in The Sun in 1889. The article alleged that Wilde had a habit of passing off other people's witticisms as his own—especially Whistler's.
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At age 72, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908–1999), became an Englishman in New York. John Foster's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is one of wit and of suffering.
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Lassalle was a "strong, powerful" bay horse with a narrow white stripe bred in France by Louis Champion. As a yearling, he was sent to the sales at Deauville and was bought for £23,000 by representatives of Zenya Yoshida, the Japanese founder of Shadai Farm. The colt was sent into training in France with Richard Carver Jr. Lassalle was from the first crop of foals sired by Bon Mot, the winner of the 1966 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. His dam Windy Cliff showed high-class form on the track, finishing second in the Prix Cléopâtre and became a successful broodmare whose other offspring included the steeplechaser Ravageur (Prix La Haye Jousselin).
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Despite his accomplishments in other areas, he is remembered particularly for the careful prose style he brought to TBW, his gift for the bon mot, the tone he set. As a theorist, Kaplan developed the Kaplan–Sheinwold bidding system, which heavily influenced Standard American bidding (apart from Standard's use of the strong no trump) from the 1970s on: for example, much of the Precision bidding system as originally formulated was based directly on Kaplan–Sheinwold. As Jeff Rubens noted in his remembrance of Kaplan, “The foundation of Kaplan-Sheinwold is more a blending of ostensibly eclectic elements into a coherent whole than a sparkling new concept, but Edgar combined the ingredients cleverly and added some finishing touches of his own.”TBW, April 1998, p.
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According to Cavallé, in those pages, "she published a number of short literary texts, which she would later include in her books." One of her first appearances in public as a social activist was on behalf of the Board of Ladies of the League Against Tuberculosis in Girona, in a distribution of awards to mothers who had breastfed their children longer. She took an active part in the Women's Charity Tomb, chaired by Dolors Monserdà. She was a member of the Public Instruction and Child Protection Boards of Tarragona, member of the Board of the "Liga del Bon Mot" (League of the Good Word), member of the "Junta de Primera Enseñanza de Tarragona" (Board of First Education of Tarragona) and member of the "Junta de Protección a Childhood" (Board to Protect Childhood).
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To the Olla Podrida of Thomas Monro, a close friend at school and college, Headley contributed a number on the horrors depicted by the authors of modern tragedies' and he is said to have been one of the writers in The Lounger's Miscellany, or the Lucubrations of Abel Slug, Esq., which ran to twenty numbers in 1788 and 1789. As "C. T. O." he published articles in the Gentleman's Magazine.viz. ‘Poetical Imitations in Milton,’ 1786, pt. i. pp. 134–6; ‘Pope, Crashaw,’ pp. 310–13; ‘Observations on Milton and others,’ pp. 486–8; ‘Poetry of Quarles,’ pt. ii. pp. 666–7, 926–8; ‘Parallel Passages,’ pp. 732–733; ‘Pennant's Zoology Considered,’ pp. 838–40; ‘Bon-mot of Dr. Bentley,’ 1787, pt. i. p. 125; ‘Remarks on Milton, Drayton, &c.;,’ pt. ii. pp. 1080–2.
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Even after the Royalists failed to turn up for the Westminster Assembly, the Episcopalians were probably in the majority or at least the plurality. However, the Episcopalian members of the Assembly proved less than zealous in their defense of episcopacy: when the Assembly scheduled debates and votes for the late afternoon and early evening, the Episcopalian members failed to attend, allowing the Presbyterians and Independents to dominate the Assembly's debates. In a famous bon mot, Lord Falkland observed that "those that hated the bishops hated them worse than the devil and those that loved them loved them not so well as their dinner." Upon their arrival, the Scottish Commissioners – Alexander Henderson, George Gillespie, Samuel Rutherford, and Robert Baillie – organized a campaign to have the Church of England adopt a presbyterian system similar to the Church of Scotland.
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