| The character, Cannie Shapiro, established the template for a number of Weiner's subsequent heroines: clever, quippy young women whose dress size tends to be well into the double digits. |
| The dialogue is a little quippy and smart-arsed right now, but I'm sure it will settle down as we get to know the various characters. |
| If she had to go to a party with guests who were outside her inner circle, she would inevitably be under pressure, sooner or later, to be quippy or performative. |
| So, it's difficult where you have something in your pocket and you have to respond immediately and be quirky and quippy. |
| With Thomas Cromwell on quippy BFF duties. |
| Second, most editors don't want a writer who really knows movies and has a big historical background — they want simple, quippy, obvious judgments. |
