bon mot in a sentence

1. In Anglo-Saxon there is a nice bon mot or better said a question:

2. There is a bon mot that goes “Boulez is Webern sounding like Debussy.”

3. Perhaps I was a sociopathic butler with a flair for the bon mot in a past life.

4. We have 380 bon mots or sayings from this saga which are still used in modern language.

5. And Voltaire reduces the problem to a bon mot: “The superfluous is a very necessary thing.”

6. Especially at the time there were numerous bon mots, phrases and ceremonies around the coffee.

7. And remember Spurgeon’s bon mot when asked about the secret of his ministry: “My people pray for me.”

8. In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

9. We polled female relationship experts to learn the opening bon mots that are funny and charming, and won’t end with a drink in your face.

10. »There is nothing good unless you do it!« – The women’s group that met to talk in Ursula Arnold’s living room took Erich Kästner’s bon mot literally.

11. [4] The museum—according to a bon mot by Jeff Wall—does not just have a «sun wing» but a «moon section» that makes it possible to convey cinematic experiences.

12. in addition to being a superstar actress, she wrote nine of her 13 films, and is known equally for her bon mots and intelligence as she is for her buxom beauty.

13. That bon mot could, more or less, sum up the reaction of some skeptical onlookers to the embrace of new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas by both the governments of Israel and the United States.

14. From Gavin Andersen’s point of view, who coined the bon mot “That would be bad” with a view to a 51% attack, it is relatively easy to defend against such an attack from the developer’s point of view.

15. Every bon mot I utter costs me a purseful of money; half a million of my private fortune has passed through my hands that I might learn what I know now—not only the whole of my father’s fortune; but also my own salary, and my large literary income for more than fifty years.

16. She had a lot of questions for her would-be midwife, but as if to directly address all those oh-so-curious fans who may not be satisfied in the info-bomb of answers they were about to receive, the midwife delivered this bon mot: “Every question I answer will simply lead to another question.”