She has written her way to the top of the industry, bon mot by rapid 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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Le mot "combat" a été utilisé des dizaines de fois.
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The similarities are so strong that you don't much need French to get it: Pour parler de la France, Marine Le Pen est obligée de plagier MOT POUR MOT un discours de Fillon ... #Imposture pic.twitter.
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Mr. Guest's gift for the archly comedic mot juste is undiminished.
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" And for the mot injuste: "She dropped my arm and waded away.
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The lashing winds are expected to ease on Thursday, the MOT said.
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" He adds another bon mot from William Butler Yeats: "In dreams begin responsibility.
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Min klasskompis skulle färgs håret, han insåg att han var allergisk mot hårfärg.
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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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G C-H: Present tense, active voice, le mot juste or just a word.
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Mot sectors were down on Monday, with financial and consumer shares leading the decline.
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Jahari did mot specify how Iran might react to U.S. threats to its oil exports.
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La France ne se gouverne plus elle-même; l'Europe a toujours son mot à dire.
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Carnet d'Albi ALBI, France — La peinture est défraîchie, mais le mot est encore lisible : ALIMENTATION.
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The MoT confirmed the two ministries are drafting a plan, but declined to reveal more details.
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It's never let me down, except for the upcoming MOT, and we've shared some good memories.
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Let's take a look at the cluing: 14A: Do you use MOT in your everyday vocabulary?
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Un acronyme ou un mot porte-manteau construit de "démocratie", "dictature" et "ploutocratie" ferait bien l'affaire.
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She is a fluid writer but not the sort to go in search of le mot juste.
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"Le grand remplacement est devenu un household word (sic) ['un mot familier', en anglais]," assure-t-il.
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Homes that are part of beyond are among Airbnb's mot high-end homes: beachside villas and mountaintop mansions.
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Given the magnitude of this undertaking, the MOT lent its support as we do with all international events.
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Writers, poets, and philosophers have continually searched for le mot juste, the right word, to describe human suffering.
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That's Swenglish: "att ställa någon mot väggen" (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable.
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Disons-le d'un mot: la France aujourd'hui est orpheline de ces deux conflits qui définissaient sa vie politique.
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Further instructions on how to use them to their full potential can be found on the MOT Museum's website.
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Elle définit ces fondamentaux comme "l'amour pour le mot juste, les pensées qui prêtent à controverse, et la confrontation".
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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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" Je n'en renie pas une ligne, pas un mot, " écrit l'auteur dans la préface de cette édition de 2005.
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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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The shop front for most smuggled fuel here is the car services industry, including MOT centers and tire dealerships.
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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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So, for example, in the entries at 17- and 18 Across, BONMOT and HERSTORY have MOT and HERS shaded/circled.
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I also made and exhibited work with my brother, architect Steven Beasley, and showed at the East End gallery MOT.
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Junkyards and MOT garages emerge, preceding a funnel shaped tower that signals the arrival at the East Midland train depot.
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MOT on Tuesday reported a 23% drop in nine-month profit to 17.1 million euros ($19.2 million) due to higher costs.
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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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If you start with MOT, LEAP over the black square and continue on with the HERS in HERSTORY, you get MOTHER'S DAY.
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Then, there's Northbound—Mot Nord in Norwegian—a film that recently received the Special Jury Mention at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Les Algériens laïcs désignent souvent les subsahariens avec le mot " africains ", comme si le Maghreb ne faisait pas partie du même continent.
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District Saigon opened in February under the name District Mot, a nod to District 1 in Saigon, where Lam Lien grew up.
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I'm the only person who really knows where everything goes in the coolers and the freezers at the store at mot times.
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Gucci: One of Kering's mot popular brands, Gucci was 2019's fastest-growing luxury brand, with a brand valuation of $15.9 billion.
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Le mot " libéralisme " lui-même était progressivement devenu un repoussoir à droite comme à gauche, surtout lorsqu'on lui adjoignait le préfixe " néo ".
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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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In January, when PhD students jostle for jobs at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, a "market" might seem the mot juste.
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This was an old tradition anyway; medieval bells often sing out "John made me" or "Peter made me"; so the names Robertus Mot, Jos.
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The MOT says organizers for Fyre have taken full responsibility, and going forward ... the Bahamas will take appropriate steps to protect its good name.
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Le firdaous (lointain ancêtre du mot "paradis," souvenir du perse), promis par le Coran, est abondamment décrit par la littérature religieuse depuis des siècles.
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If anything, it was a signal of support for him, using the mot du jour and taking it to the next level with fashion.
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The Hong Kong-registered CF-Crystal had been transporting food from the United States to the Chinese province of Guangdong, according to the MoT.
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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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Onstage, rock band Daalschlag—self-proclaimed inventors of "moped metal"—is playing a song about the natural enemy of motorcycle lovers everywhere—the MOT test.
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Sure enough, I needed to write CLAUDE MOT into the slot, and the N in INLET and the E in TUNE IN finish the job.
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Clarity is the mot du jour here in Brussels, with so little of it forthcoming from Washington D.C. on the subject of trade and tariffs.
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Order a testing kit online—or, better yet, get yourself to the clinic for a full MOT—and then go forth and fuck into the night.
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What was once a powerful concept has become the nebulous mot du jour we reach for when we're not sure how else to capture women's attention.
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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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Where Antin's talk poems enact the felicitous meanderings of storytelling, Greaves' performative revisions, so focused upon compositional minutiae, enact the writer's groping search for le mot juste.
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Sovereignty is his mot du jour, even if — or more likely because — ever more of life is lived in a virtual reality where the nation is defunct.
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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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At a time when the Administration often behaves like a dystopian MoT, it would be important to "watch the watchmen" and create safeguards against political bias or factionalism.
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But they (South Carolina) just executed, they double teamed, they triple teamed Mot (Johnathan Motley) and made it tough to score the ball every time we caught it.
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Both of these subreddits nonetheless have a lot of users, and Reddit has another algorithm that determines the mot popular posts across the entire site, called r/all.
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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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"Spilled oil covering the ship body and its surrounding water is still burning, which leaves Sanchi at risk of exploding and sinking," said the MOT in the statement.
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The student's father, Fermin Gonzales, told KSBW the teacher informed the class he was aiming the gun at the ceiling so he could check whether it was loaded or 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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According to an unwritten EU convention, the bloc's top civil servant, who runs a 30,000-strong administration in Brussels, should mot be of the same nationality as the Commission head.
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Two years later, "thirst" remains with us as the mot juste for these and other people, moments and things — and the evidence of that thirst has only grown more undeniable.
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Visuals may be more universally understood than text, but finding the perfect sticker among countless pouts, smirks and side-eyes can be as time-consuming as searching for le mot juste.
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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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Un homme au balcon, qui semble très amer, arrose d'un petit jet d'eau un contremaître venu réparer une gouttière défectueuse; celui-ci lui jette alors un gros mot à la figure.
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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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"The fact is that Alcoa has started this earnings season mot with a whimper, but with a bang, and maybe that is what this big move in stocks is really signaling," Cramer said.
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AND TAKING A STANCE ON IT. AS MUCH FOR OURSELVES, QUITE FRANKLY, SO THAT WE ARE PRINCIPLED IN OUR APPROACH TO CREATING A.I. AND THAT'S WHAT IS THE MOT MOTIVATION BEHIND THAT PIECE.
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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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Une autre histoire répertoriée sur le site internet de La Banquise raconte que d'autres plats constitués de patates sont aussi appelés " poutines ", et que l'appellation pourrait tirer ses origines du mot anglais " pudding ".
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I'd seen rumors online that the emu's owner was a garage-owner, so I googled "Felton Euxton Garage" and the first link led me to a Facebook page for Felton's MOT & Service Centre Euxton.
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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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The Vikings attending this counter-protest were there representing the network Vikingar Mot Rasism (Vikings Against Racism), whose members are out to show that you can cherish ancient national traditions without being a racist dickhead.
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The Ministry of Transport (MoT) said in July it wanted to remove a million polluting trucks in northern China as part of a three-year plan, but no details of the proposal have been reported.
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China's Ministry of Transportation (MoT) said as many as 0003 vessels are at the site of the collision in the East China Sea, including firefighting and search-and-rescue ships, with one more en route.
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His theater work, often in collaboration with David Mamet, features Jay's sleight of hand, his passion for showbiz history and a lascivious joy in the polysyllabic mot juste — the last nicely on show in this book.
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In an exclusive clip of next week's finale of Dog's Mot Wanted, viewers can see the the raw and emotional moments the Chapman family share with each other the days before and the hours after Beth's passing.
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The blast happened on board the tanker in the afternoon after rescue crews were dousing the ship with foam in an attempt to put out the fire, China's Transport Ministry (MOT) said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Universal Tyres has a turnover of 14 million pounds annually and employs 45 staff, selling tyres and parts to about 600 customers, typically garages, dealerships and stations that conduct the annual MOT test to ensure cars are roadworthy.
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Assis dans un box en verre, les prévenus ont écouté sans un mot les juges réciter les accusations, selon lesquelles ils seraient entrés par effraction dans l'appartement du couple, à Créteil, et auraient jeté des objets religieux à terre.
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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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At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), the exhibit "Tokyo": Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis applies a similar line of thinking as it reflects on the cultural life of the Japanese capital as it prepares for the 2020 Olympics.
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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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Dans un autre épisode surnommé le " Pastagate ", l'Office, qui défend fermement la langue française au Québec, expliqua à un restaurant italien de Montreal qu'il avait enfreint la loi en utilisant le mot " pasta " sur son menu, plutôt que de le traduire dans la langue de Voltaire.
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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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The top 22.66 mot expensive states for filing up the tank: California $22.65 Hawaii $3.71 Washington $3.45 Alaska $3.39 Oregon $3.34 Nevada $3.33 Idaho $3.17 Utah $2.663 Connecticut $3.15 Michigan $3.13 The top 10 least expensive states for filling up the tank: Virginia $2.76 Kansas $2.74 Tennessee $2.73 Missouri $2.72 Oklahoma $2.71 Arkansas $2.68 Louisiana $2.67 South Carolina $2.66 Alabama $2.66 Mississippi $2.65
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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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