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Example Sentences
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“O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous,” Voltaire, the 18th-century French enlightenment philosopher, himself known for his bons mots, once wrote, adding: “God granted my prayer.”
Wordplay, aphorisms and bon mots were Stoppard’s signature.
From Los Angeles Times
He jotted down this bon mot with his pencil nub.
From Literature
Chop up two-thirds of the dialogue into bon mots and it’d make a great book of inspirational quotes, the sort of thing a thoughtful auntie would slip into a kid’s stocking at Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet it’s also, via Hart’s acerbic bon mots, an incisive exploration of two opposing views of art.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
