‘‘I didn't have any leftover time,’ she recalled tartly, ‘for high jinks.’’
‘It's just a short squib of a post, but tartly phrased.’
‘It is, as a Hentoff book title tartly puts it, ‘freedom of speech for me - but not for thee.’’
‘Christine launched into a lively denunciation of the anti-woman Romance of the Rose, pointing out tartly the many faults in its logic and its humanity.’
‘He dismissed the views of ‘a good many writers who have tartly denigrated the role of the family.’’
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