Sentence examples for and the wits of from inspiring English sources

Instead of eliminating conflicts of interest, Goldman hopes to rely on greater disclosure and the wits of its people to defuse them.

PS Dept combines big data and the wits of a real person to make sure its users have the easiest, most accurate access to information around designer clothing.

I thought to say something along the lines — the air of Byron, the steel pen of Orwell, and the wit of Wilde.

Using the sweeping perspectives afforded by the precipitously hilly terrain, he composes frames with the skill of a painter and the wit of a silent-film maestro.

Retro they're not, except in the shared interest in backsides, and the wit of Bamforth and especially his star artist Donald McGill is effortlessly more subtle and rewarding.

THROUGHOUT the case studies that make up "Awakenings," Oliver Sacks repeatedly remarks on the courage, the intelligence and the wit of his patients.

By the end of the ancien régime, the logic of Descartes, the restraint of Racine, and the wit of Voltaire were seen as the hallmarks of French culture and were emulated throughout the courts and salons of the Continent.

Lacroix himself generously singled out Saint Laurent as the greatest couturier of the past half century, citing the versatility with which he had combined "the form of Chanel with the opulence of Dior and the wit of Schiaparelli".

Then there is The Face's front cover of Kate Moss that catapulted her to fame and the wit of Top of the Pops in inventing nicknames for the Spice Girls.

In a famous vindication of fiction in Northanger Abbey, Austen herself names Edgeworth's Belinda (1801) as one of those works that have proved the intellectual power and the wit of the best novels.

Many of the sources appear to be art books, and the wit of the work lies in revealing the way phrases seen in isolation assume lives of their own.