Sentence examples for astute witty from inspiring English sources

A peachy, astute, witty 27-year-old Mormon who has never had sex.

He was also an astute and witty musical journalist.

But he will also forever be astute and witty, a "smart kid who doesn't try".

Dyer's characteristic blend of fitful but astute scholarship, witty irreverence, and autobiographical digression (in footnotes that creep up the page) is here devoted to "summarizing the action of a film almost devoid of action".

I know he was kidding, but it was a cheap joke based on silly stereotypes and has no place in an otherwise witty, astute piece.

Yet "The Look of Love" builds to a witty, astute celebration of the worlds of these songs and their very lightness.

Witty, astute, and compulsively readable, he knows how to shape a critical narrative and where to slide in a comic aside.

Calle's curatorial skills also have a chance to shine here: her choice of women to comment on her breakup email is both astute and uncommonly witty.

Ms. Atwood is a witty and astute writer of broad sympathy and wide-ranging curiosity, and the prose of the book, at once commonsensical and counterintuitive, bristles with insight and implication.

His vivacious intellect is manifest both in his playing and on his blog, Think Denk, an outlet for astute musical observations and witty musings, whether a lament about inedible meatballs or a spoof interview with Sarah Palin.

Becoming an instant success with the publication of her inaugural novel, (2000), Zadie Smith has continued to earn the praise of readers and critics for her perceptive renderings of unique characters described through her witty and astute prose.