Sentence examples for and wit of a from inspiring English sources

But Bournonville also thrills because his grammatical ordering of traditional steps has the phrasing, punctuation and wit of a master poet.

Christian's lines did not sound like a guitar player's; they were more like the poetry and wit of a Lester Young saxophone improvisation.

Marie Menken's delicate "Sidewalks," which has the hieroglyphic elegance and wit of a Cy Twombly painting, and her Pop Art "Wrestling," filmed in close-up from a television screen, work quite well.

My chief memory is of the articulacy and wit of a whole generation of actors, including Michael Pennington, Alex Jennings, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter and, of course, Russell Beale himself.

Mr. Mason attempts to set out the troubling no man's land between the lucidity and wit of an aging mind and its gradual dissolution.

It would have been fascinating to take a trip to Malvern and visit the sites where Darwin underwent water cures for unknown and sundry ailments under the guise of Dr. James Gully, as much a conjurer as a healer, who had the entrepreneurship and wits of a Galvin.

The sober elegance and wit of such an exemplar could not be less fashionable.

But Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's score for "Fun Home" has the emotional intricacy and lyrical wit of a Sondheim musical; for a taste of its small-scale radiance, watch this snapshot of sexual awakening.

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.

Even here, in the beginning, Vargas writes with the startling imagery and absurdist wit of a latter-day Anouilh, about fey characters who live in a wonderful bohemian world that never was but should have been.

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