For the most part, though, "Havana" finds a bright wit and a passion in the grayness of living in limbo.
The wait seems a surprise, given how portable – how easily memorised, how widely applicable – Ryan's bright wit and sad jokes can be.
His dialogue throughout "Time Stands Still" crackles with bright wit and intelligence, but it is almost always an expression of the characters' personalities, not a function of the author's need to dazzle and entertain.
And yet she charms younger audiences with the combination of authority and bright wit projected in her distinctive voice.
She was born with a fine mind and a bright wit, and by help of Miss Sullivan's amazing gifts as a teacher this mental endowment has been developed until the result is what we see to-day: a stone deaf, dumb, and blind girl who is equipped with a wide and various and complete university education—a wonderful creature who sees without eyes, hears without ears, and speaks with dumb lips.
Rand was placed in a claw-foot bathtub while the brothers gathered around him in absurdist costumes they called "undress," shone a bright light on his face, and tested his wits by shouting ridiculous questions.
There are a few moments of bright visual wit, and I could feel the otherwise restless audience's gratification when they occurred.
Woolf's deliciously frolicsome tone, with the narrator merging the mock-serious voice of a sober biographer with a frank acknowledgment of the impossibility of teasing out truth from the mists of history, comes through with its bright, pealing wit.
The same bright leather sofas decorate the lobbies, and the same resident wit seems to christen all the offices–"Bored Room," for example.
She also displays the right bright-eyed wit in A Little Priest, which celebrates cannibalism in three-four waltz time, and never lets us forget that Mrs Lovett is driven by lust for Sweeney.
