Sentence examples for brainy wit from inspiring English sources
But the opera, based on Mr. Maher's play of the same name, swamps the original's dry, brainy wit without providing that most important, elusive quality: enough variation in the variations.
The best tales in "Verging on the Pertinent," her second collection of short stories, accomplish this with sly wit or brainy despair; more often it's both.
Nikulin, affectionately called Uncle Yury by Russian children, was known as a "brainy" clown because he relied upon his wits.
Brainy, not brawny, they seduce with charm and wit, not physical magnetism.
To underscore the dry but distinctly morbid wit of this series, Slider and company also fool with brainy puns, slang and other wordplay, which keeps them sane when it becomes evident here that some big-time criminal is knocking off all the small-time competition.
And last but not least, Allison Janney, in the role of the brainy, always passed-over Violet Newstead (whom Tomlin played with brisk conspiratorial wit), may not be a natural stage singer.
Celia Keenan-Bolger takes on the womanly duties as Molly, a brainy and resourceful 13-year-old, embodying a proto-feminist willpower with stylish wit and ardor.
Brainy youngsters have choices.
Tom Hanks is back – his capacity for wit and ironic charm once again wasted on the role of Dr Robert Langdon, an academic who is sort of a brainier, duller Indiana Jones.
