He was so near death He was willing to take Any love he could get, Even at the risk Of some mocking policeman Or some cute young
wiseacre, Smashing his dentures, Perhaps leading him on To a dark place and there Kicking him in his dead groin Just for the fun of it.
The love song of James Arlington Wright: an essay and interview with Annie Wright
Ellen does not like to be crossed, I learn one evening when I top her rhetoric with a
wiseacre remark.
Enduring friendship: women's intimacies and the erotics of survival
Thus he, the
wiseacre, transforms value into something absolute, 'a property of things', instead of seeing in it only something relative, the relation of things to social labour ...
The 'massiness' of capital
One
wiseacre said, "Hey buddy, the 50-yard range is over that way."
Downing steel: loading the black powder cartridge rifle for accuracy, consistency and precision
press mention was likely a
wiseacre column by The Washington Post's Al Kamen, deriding federal officials for flying off on government money for "a spectacialar Weeklong event in, yes, RIO!"
Obama crew 'gets' world urban ties but our media do not
However, the narrator's voice is always unmistakably that of the
wiseacre playwright sending up the foibles and manners of his subjects.
Another Jersey Boy Makes It Big!
In deflecting that attention, he can be a fast-talking
wiseacre one minute, a short-tempered growler the next.
In Chip they always trust
A hand-lettered sign posted by some
wiseacre doesn't help: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." But inside, when Seymour flicks on the lights, I'm relieved that the seething horror-film mass of bugs of my imagination doesn't materialize.
Beetle mania: exploring the dark recesses of the ROM's live bug room
When Vince Alicandri installed me as Tax Executives Institute's 2009-2010 International President in early August, the
wiseacre in me prompted two quips:
Yes, we can: maintaining preeminence in an evolving economy
Good thing this wasn't an engineering conference, or some
wiseacre would have shouted, "Pick any two!"
I think it's going to be a long long time: written with no assistance from Bernie Taupin
The LFL, smartly, has tucked its brand persona into a tranche populated by
wiseacre sports commentators and testosterone.
Skin game
He is portrayed as a scientist who believes in weird gods and employs highly imaginative speculation; as a quibbling, logic-chopping
wiseacre; and as an ascetic moral teacher.
The historical Socrates: the popular image of Socrates as a man of immense moral integrity was largely the creation of his pupil Plato. If we examine evidence of his trial, argues Robin Waterfield, a different picture emerges, of a cunning politician opposed to Athenian democracy
You might think a
wiseacre like me would have watched it on television.
The pure hell of the Great North Run
(11) Fontane believes an author can be palpably present in his fiction without leaching vitality from what he depicts, and argues (in a letter to Spielhagen) that although the author does well to avoid the roles of judge, preacher, and
wiseacre, it is unfeasible for him to silence his own voice altogether.
Fontane and the programmatic realists: contrasting theories of the novel
Additionally, the occasional
wiseacre would ask, "Well, then, how come William H.
In-version