Sentence examples for a master of wit from inspiring English sources

He was such a master of wit, repartee and sophistry.

Nikolaus Pevsner was a master of wit and bathos as well as of architectural history.

A master of wit, paradox and social delineation, Anthony Powell was concerned with the study of character and the eccentricities of upper-class life.

This month, Han Han, aged 28, a master of Aesopian wit and probably China's most widely read blogger, wrote this: The world over, a country is like a woman and the government is like the man who possesses her.

Merton may be a master of impromptu verbal wit, but he's not a great writer.

Groucho was the master of wit and verbal timing, and he delivered wisecracks and non sequiturs at a dizzying, relentless pace; his visual trademarks included greasepainted eyebrows and mustache, glasses, tailcoat, and ever-present cigar.

He was also a master of the chant royal and infused some Horatian wit into the old forms of the ballade and the rondeau.

No matter which genre he worked in, Mr. Hill was a master of form and style, writing with grace and wit and embellishing his cerebral puzzle mysteries with playful literary allusions and clever wordplay.

The Tempest demonstrates the author to be a master of both comedy and tragedy, with a full command over "all the resources of passion, of wit, of thought, of observation".

On Monkey Island, wit is as important as strength, and Ozzie is a master of insult sword fighting, insult arm wrestling and insult darts.

He was a master of disguises.