Sentence examples for absence of wit from inspiring English sources

Instead of camouflaging the fatuity of the screenplay, the crude, hammy performances only underscore the absence of wit in dialogue that has the deadly thud of a college student's first draft.

Noah Richler, a columnist for The National Post and the son of the novelist Mordechai Richler, wrote in a recent column about the preponderance of historical themes, the absence of wit and humor, and "a dearth of books that confront the present head-on" in contemporary Canadian fiction.

With the absence of rhyme and of the movement goes the absence of wit.

Figure 1A shows that in the absence of Wit, EGF stimulated the tyrosine phosphorylation of both STAT3 and STAT5.

Figure 1B shows that treatment of MDA-MB-468 cells with EGF in the absence of Wit stimulated STAT3 and STAT5 binding to EGFR.

In the absence of Wit, EGF stimulation resulted in a robust increase in tyrosine-phosphorylated STAT3, which was localised predominantly in the nucleus.

The discovery made her so self-conscious that she wasn't satisfied with the way she performed the scene for a couple of weeks, which was how long it took her to stop listening to herself telling all those non-jokes and to regain her confidence that her acting was funny enough to compensate for the absence of verbal wit.

It's not just that Kristol isn't another Safire (although an absence of verbal playfulness and wit is a consistent hallmark of the Kristol prose style).

But given his weaknesses, structural and personal — including the absence of Huckabee's trademark wit — it's remarkable how far he's come, and how durable this coalition has proven itself from one cycle to another.

One reason writers love the Net is the absence of physical limitations restricting word length, but brevity still remains the soul of wit.

Her account is extraordinary for its absence of polemic: she writes with the intelligence, wit, and keen eye for detail demanded by any kind of reporting, and the result is a book on the subject curiously unlike any other.