Sentence examples for astonishing wit from inspiring English sources

Synge took language itself and worked with it as though it were clay, creating rhythms and phrases of astonishing wit and sensuousness.

Mili is comfortable filming in near darkness — even God would not be so cruel as to submit jazz musicians to daylight — and composes the musicians inside the frame with astonishing wit and subtlety.

Set to traditional Iraqi music, the group work was fluidly constructed and performed with astonishing ease and wit by women who began to work with Mr. Rübsam little more than a month ago.

In poetry, Mick Imlah's The Lost Leader displays a well-stocked poetic imagination on the loose with history and its discontents - Scotlands of the mind - with a poetic diction of astonishing energy and wit, and an almost total disrespect for his elders.

Mel had an iconoclastic turn of mind, an astonishing memory and delightful wit.

His pamphlet Re: (Donut Press, £5) and his collection Confer (Bloodaxe, £8.95) display pizzazz, wit and – astonishing at his age – both technical assurance and a genuinely integrated humanity.

It is melodrama on amyl nitrate; the recipe a dose of Scarlett O'Hara and a pinch of Blanche Dubois well-spiced with obscenity, wit and astonishing performances.

Partly it was his wit, and his astonishing command of the facts, which enabled him to wrong-foot his opponents with such agility.

In that capacity, but especially in the classroom, his self-deprecating wit, enthusiasm, and astonishing breadth of knowledge, endeared him to and often motivated countless Columbia undergraduates, whose development was his priority as an educator, while depth of knowledge about all languages, literatures, and cultures was his prime personal goal.

Much of the wit in "Telegraph Avenue" inheres in Chabon's astonishing prose.

Chair of the judges Frieda Hughes, meanwhile, called The Lost Leader "quite brilliant", praising it in exalted terms as "an astonishing city in which live the characters that he describes with humour, wit and an unerring eye".