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bon mot

NOUN
  1. a clever remark

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  • This amusing little bon mot v ill-timed by me as I think she had post-traumatic test disorder because she burst into tears. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • As one of the Algonquin wags might put it when too drunk for fresher bon mots, the dame was STACKED. The Favored Five
  • By that bon mot , he meant to imply, no doubt, that only a listener who really involves himself is of importance to music or the makers of music.
  • We ran and we danced among the flotsam and jetsum of out digital lives, scattering bon mots like candies to the poor and needy children around us.
  • The system would implode from the bon mots and snark. My God, It's Full Of Tweets!
  • Schlegel, placing Leibniz "among the greatest masters" of a "thoroughly material wit," describes his manner of writing and thinking as falling between science, philosophy, and poetry: "The most important scientific discoveries are bon mots of this sort — are so because of the surprising contingency of their origin, the unifying source of their thought, and the baroqueness of their casual expression .... Club Monad
  • This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.
  • Many times in the film, an arched eyebrow, a downcast eye (followed by a POV shot), or wrinkled, furrowed brow says a lot more than the witty bon mots that the cast members like to throw about.
  • And finally, at the request of La Ross himself, those popular hitmakers of the day Roxy Music, where the reanimated corpse of Bryan Ferry will assume a louche posture on a chaise longue and deliver controversial bon mots over the sound of hunting bugles and his posho son picking off the riff-raff with a 12-bore shotgun. Jonathan Ross Made Kelly Osbourne Hysterical?
  • In Anderson, the group have a classic song stylist who works his cornfed bon mots into smoking country tunes.
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