Sentence examples for bouts of wit from inspiring English sources

Even in court, Moses indulged in occasional bouts of wit.

The best parts of the "Avengers" were its bouts of verbal wit and playful dueling among characters uncomfortably ranged on the same side of a battle, evidence that Mr. Whedon cares more about character than about plot.

Rudolph, who wrote the script with the journalist Randy Sue Coburn, anchors the action in bouts of lacerating wit exchanged like blows at the celebrated Algonquin round table, and extracts a full measure of the pain that the verbal combat of brilliant talkers and frustrated writers both conceals and inflicts.

"Brevity," Allon replied, "is the soul of wit".

It is the expression of the unchallenged mastery of wit.

Celtic need more of that kind of wit and imagination.

It's full of wit and hilarious humour.

Improve your sense of wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

"The great comedians collected here changed comedy forever," he writes, between bouts of insisting that no one has picked up the torch because audiences became unable to grasp genuine wit.

Bouts of deep depression followed.