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Synonyms for boutade

an impulsive, often illogical turn of mind

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Il l'agremente de boutades, ironise sur son parcours, se moque sans retenue des chretiens et de l'Eglise, ce qui ne manque pas de provoquer l'hilarite de son auditoire.
In one of his many biting witticisms, boutades, he once claimed that "one of the horrors of war, to which insufficient attention is paid, is the fact that women survive it" (Romans et oeuvres de fiction non theatrales 927).
Em seu lugar, encontramos uma profusao de estudos formulados em uma gramatica teorica multidisciplinar que, nao apenas dao consistencia as boutades vanguardistas do manifesto de 1928, como se estendem, para muito alem delas, em elaboradas reflexoes sobre a constituicao do poder e do discurso ao longo da historia do Ocidente.
Esta inclinacion queda aparentemente compensada con el tono recriminatorio con el que, en otros pasajes, reprende al autor por algun exceso personal o alguna de sus boutades.
Uma leitura superficial julga-lo-ia caprichoso e mutavel em seus principios, quer eticos, quer esteticos, ou, pior ainda, poderseia recortar de sua obra boutades isoladas, convenientes para concluir que Baudelaire era misogino, desagradavelmente reacionario e frivolo, ou ainda, um revoltado radical, mas inconsequente.
(12) Stendhal n'a jamais fait mystere de son aversion pour les "idees surannees" et les "sottes boutades" du philosophe grec, pour Winckelmann, "le plus plat" de tous les critiques allemands, pour Schlegel et sa theorie du poete inspire par Dieu, enfin pour le "ridicule" Quatremere.
Some versions add a postscript to the event, demonstrating the relation of drawing to all the arts, by having the maiden's father, Boutades, fill in the outline with clay and thus produce the first figurative sculpture (Kris and Kurz 74).
Apres les balivernes d'Atlas Blue et les boutades du transporteur aerien national, on s'acharne, aujourd'hui, sans scrupule, a deplumer les ailes des routes a bas couts.