Despite becoming the first pope to use Twitter, Pope Benedict never garnered the media savvy of his predecessor John Paul II, a former actor with a knack for defusing controversy with one liners.
Fond of one-liners, he said his best book was always the one he was about to write.
But there was plenty of crying betwixt the cruelish one-liners, because that is real life.
Yet he chronicles his travels with a wearying feather-light jocularity, prizing one-liners over lucid analysis.
As one-liners go, it neatly sums up the underlying argument of writer-director Fruit Chan Kuo's second feature.
On the intangibles and one-liners that most voters remember, the final debate may have been a draw.
But the technospeak often used to describe them hardly matches the fiery one-liners launched from the right.
So whether Peel predicts precisely or not, it might peel back the notion that one-liners determine debates.
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History has shown that many people remember presidential debates more for body language and one-liners than for carefully crafted policy positions.
No teleprompters and no ability to survive on 30 second hope and change filled one-liners would be allowed to shape this debate.
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Munger's one-liners are blunt and acidic, indicating he doesn't suffer fools gladly.
The Office is one of those shows you either love or hate, that is not necessarily heavy on the gags or one-liners.
That's not to say there aren't a few laugh-out-loud sight gags and a couple of good one-liners stolen by mama Kathy Bates.
Italian collaboratives, like Archizoom and Superstudio, made witty one-liners that verged on pranks (the palm-tree-shaped floor lamp) alongside more refined riffs on modernism.
There were some other gags which although included neat one-liners, didn't seem to fit in, and distorted the flow a little at times.
Once celebrated for his waspish one-liners, Mr Bildt no longer bothers to attack directly his chief political foe, the prime minister, Goran Persson.
Pope Benedict never garnered the media savvy of his predecessor John Paul II, a former actor with a knack for defusing controversy with one-liners.
Clinton did hope, though, that a friendly reunion, with both Presidents dropping jovial one-liners about ailments and recuperation, could establish a mood for compromise.
He repeated key phrases and peppered his speech with memorable one-liners.
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But if you ignored all of the bluster and one-liners and instead focused on the policies the candidates were proposing, they were basically reading from the same script.
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You come to hear Buffett's quips and Munger's turgid one-liners.
This panel, in the sea of humor and one-liners, is a brief but revealing look at how the world of the Justice League is already beginning to crack.
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In addition to an ability to fire off one-liners, the panel of show-runners seated before reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour share something else in common: success.
There is, however, some real truth underneath those one-liners.
As for Schwarzenegger, he delivers his regulation one-liners not as if they just occurred to him but as if they had to be mined from far below and hauled up to the pithead.
Phyllis Diller was the queen of the one-liners.
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Not only is postmodern comedy radically different in tone, but it makes no sense for most of the characters in a serious comedy like "Lost in Yonkers" to be frothing at the mouth with one-liners.
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