As a publishing obsessive, worried to death about the state of reading given the onslaught of entertainment that embraces exploitation and ignorance over any sort of wit or intellect, my grandest hope is that e-readers bring in that coveted demographic which currently seems to embrace the printed word only to the extent that they skim the captions beneath a photo of a bikini-clad Kim Kardashian.
The interplay of the three men in the boat is often hilarious (think, for example, of the improvised-looking scene in which they drunkenly compare scars), and even the most shocking bits of carnage are so elegantly conceived that they have a sort of perverse wit.
"He said, 'I suppose when you go to the airport to welcome visitors, people won't know if they're being greeted or banned.' " This sort of wit was an essential part of Mr. Sinnott's makeup.
As I watched Heather suffer, a great tenderness suffused my body, a tenderness hard to distinguish from a sort of vast existential nausea; to wit, why are such beautiful beloved vessels made slaves to so much pain?
The result went against the apparent mood of the electorate--to wit, a sort of center-right status-quo complacency, vaguely hospitable to conservative attitudes (for "family values", against leniency toward criminals, etc).
As I watched Heather suffer, a great tenderness suffused my body, a tenderness hard to distinguish from a sort of vast existential nausea; to wit, why are such beautiful beloved vessels made slaves to so much pain?" This "vast existential nausea" is Saunders in a nutshell.
Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "In place of wit, Guardians offers a sort of generalized willingness to be amusing, an atmosphere of high spirits that feels like lots of people pumping air into a tire that has a hole in it.
The third series ended last month and was universally lauded for the sort of wit and wisdom that makes you laugh even as you despair.
The repertoire offers many jokes of the aggressive, galumphing kind — the shenanigans in "Die Meistersinger," for example — but less of the sly sort of wit in which the comedian treats himself as flippantly as he treats the rest of the world.
