She still remembers the stinging remarks from a professor who said Ms. Falco's "mouth deformity" would prevent her from getting jobs.

She spent the rest of the day thinking up stinging remarks to make to him when they met, only they didn't.

He presently encountered her and delivered a stinging remark as he passed.

Kate stared at him, half a dozen stinging remarks on the tip of her tongue, not the least of which was "R*at the hell are you doing here?"

All over the castle, stinging remarks about the previous owner's alterations could be heard like screams inside an amusement-park house of horrors.

Even Williams was trying his best to maintain that nobody was rooting for Kansas, recalling stinging remarks in local newspapers.

The judge aimed several stinging remarks at Mr. Giuliani for publicizing his cases.

The empress summed up both the countess's dress and her liaison with the emperor in a stinging remark: "The heart is a bit low, Madame."

Gervais left his most stinging remarks until the very end of the award show, telling the now wined and dined celebrities.

And Mr. Brady would close on a note of gentle melancholy with a stinging remark or two "for your own good, Jim."