repartee

Though this is their first film together, their repartee is so easy and warm it’s hard to believe they haven’t co-starred in at least a dozen movies.

Some groan-inducing puns aside, Rushdie’s comic touches are deftly managed, appearing as sharp satirical swipes or witty repartee.

Trinket vendors with whom Hemingway found a passing repartee still line the sides.

My beef was that he sounded like an anxious playwright determined to string an audience along without forced exuberance and sitcom-level repartee.

Ally and Jay are both sarcastic, too — their best lines are muttered under their breaths — and their repartee becomes more interesting than the bloody theatrics.