There's little I enjoy more than inventing new ways to sling words together to provide a bon mot, or a mot juste, if it pleases you better. |
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He was particularly good, for example, at rendering that slightly quizzical arch of the eyebrow and half-smile that precedes the bon mot. |
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But it's another case of the author not being famous enough to carry such a bon mot, like Oscar Wilde and James Whistler. |
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Didn't I make you laugh, with my laconic, self-deprecatory wit and easy facility with the well-placed bon mot? |
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I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week. |
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She dreams in French and occasionally drops a bon mot into conversation, obviously relishing the feel of it in her mouth. |
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He is laconically hilarious, hot in a blonde way, he can pass off a piece of dialogue as the wittiest bon mot without breaking a sweat and he also writes. |
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Well, we have a right to bear arms so why not a right to bon mot? |
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How sophisticated to make a bon mot of the president's name. |
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Every political side gets their shot at a bon mot, a quip, or a zinger. |
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The late William Head saddled Le Paillon and Bon Mot to win the great race, while his son Alec reeled off four wins with Nuccio, Saint Crespin, Ivanjica and Gold River. |
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