(1) And, notwithstanding Santayana's too-often repeated mot about forgetfulness and history repeating, it is sometimes possible to see in such repetition not error or futility but constancy.

(2) Indeed, the oft-repeated mot that ‘Israel has more curators than artists’ points to a serious quandary.

(3) Chrissie, Frank's mot, started flinging things down at them from the bedroom window

(4) The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots .

(5) One of his mots appears on several quotation sites: ‘Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.’

(6) But those mots are just the icing on what is essentially a very rich, very filling, very addictive, gooey chocolate cake of a thriller.