Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.
The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.
Changmin teases me so much. . . it's to the point that it feels strange when he doesn't.
And then, what I hope will happen at the end is that there will be a big enough springboard that, if we chose to go for a second season, we would have one. But, there will be none of those maddening teases that we're going to tell you the answers and then we don't tell you the answers. That gave NBC the idea of making it a mini-series.
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
