Example sentences for: wisecracking

How can you use “wisecracking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The digital mouse is cute, but it's the family cat, voiced by Nathan Lane, whose wisecracking barely keeps this adaptation of the E.B.

  • This film about a man reincarnated as a snowman so that he may comfort his grieving son is said to be "treacly and fake" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The animatronic snowman (with Michael Keaton's voice) looks like a "large, wisecracking marshmallow man" (the New York Times ) and is described by Ebert as "the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects."

  • I may be jumping to conclusions based on the fact that Shayamalan is Indian-American, but The Sixth Sense strikes me as philosophically rather complicated, and possibly in dialogue with some non-Western ideas you don't get to see too often in films, unless they're uttered in egregiously bad faith by a wisecracking, turban-wearing showboat like Whoopi Goldberg or Robin Williams.

  • Dorothy Parker once noted that Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  • Other trumpeted virtues: A minimalist aesthetic inspired by Chinese art, and a wisecracking sidekick, whose voice is provided by Eddie Murphy.


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