Sentence examples for A flash of wit from inspiring English sources
In the flickering, pastoral Scherzo, he suddenly dropped his shoulders and lolled from side to side, joining in Bruckner's quirky clog dance with a flash of wit.
Morrissey has been petulant and nasty before, but there was usually a mitigating hint of arched eyebrow, or a flash of wit.
Not only have comedies rarely won, there has been precious little humor in the films that did, their self-importance precluding a light touch or a flash of wit.
Love stories, like love itself, turn less on things that are easy to summarize — situations, plots — than on the little details that give a tale or encounter its unexpected power: a gripping tone, a flash of wit, the eerily sadistic undertones of an erotic obsession.
A touch of stylish reserve, coupled with a flash of wit – Stone teased Allen about his lack of guidance on the last scene of the film and Weisz teased her director, Yorgos Lanthimos, about the suggestion that his inspiration came from an episode of the sitcom Friends.
Most of the time, he can fight his way clear with a flash of oddball wit.
This book also includes the middle-aged writer's obligatory colonoscopy story (Dave Barry wrote a better one), but Mr. Sedaris does finish his with a flash of malevolent wit.
Simon Tisdall The blogger, cookery writer and campaigner Jack Monroe brought a flash of colour, wit and authenticity (not to mention delicious food) to the debates around austerity and poverty in 2013.
Nine very long years later, the novelty has palled in this uninvited sequel: the between-two-worlds rotoscoping looks dated against newer hybrid techniques, and there's nary a flash of winking wit in its guns-and-gals storytelling.
Evidence of the erudition is everywhere: in the book-lined hallway of his riverside loft apartment, and the book-lined dining room, and the book-lined study, and the book-lined sitting room, which we're now sitting in -- the room he calls (with perhaps a flash of that wit) "the library".
In a last flash of wit, he turned to his wife and said: "Don't put that in.
