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Bryant, dazzled by her ingenious retort, babbles helplessly, "OK, good, that's a fair answer," and stumbles to his next query.
To this, I would attach my own definition: To qualify as wit, a retort must be no more than five words.
To assuage social convention, however, and to validate Prudie's suggested retort, perhaps you and the father-to-be might consider legally tying the knot ...
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
Conservatives retort that liberals would never tolerate similar bigotry aimed at beliefs sacred to Jews or blacks.