You don't have to make a joke every five seconds to be a witty person.
The imminent launch of a new publishing imprint, Notting Hill Editions, specifically devoted to reviving the essay, may be a sign of unmet demand for wise and witty individual voices amid the modern Babel.
Kenton Allen, chief executive of Big Talk Productions, said: "Blackwell, Mitchell and Webb are some of the finest comedy minds I've ever encountered, a supergroup of incredibly witty individuals.
Some aggressively witty individuals may take your use of wit in a conversation as an invitation to engage in a battle of wits.
A witty and insightful individual, Levine was a painter of prodigious talent and great integrity who imparted a wry and penetrating social commentary to his work, deftly critiquing the hypocrisy and injustice in American society.
But it would be wrong to promote such technical matters, important as they are, ahead of the ring of individual sentences that behave with a witty toughness that is the equal of either O'Connor's or Welty's.
Weiner is a witty public speaker.
It made for a witty coup.
Everyone loves a witty letter.
She was high-spirited with a witty sense of humor.
