rejoinder

Burns tried to rectify this but succumbed to sentimentality, as foreign affairs columnist Patrick Lawrence explained in his 2017 rejoinder to the series and, well, my impression of it:

Falwell’s rejoinder: “Why don’t you have some murderers and bank robbers and so forth to represent?”

The rejoinder is, of course, that everyone who has died and will die because of institutions like UnitedHealthcare were people mourned by their loved ones as well.

In a perfect world, its success will be rejoinder enough.

Quayle’s stricken look — a rictus of shock and humiliation — spoke to the devastation of the rejoinder after which, it’s fair to say, his callow image never fully faded.