Sentence examples for comic wit from inspiring English sources
"comic wit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to an individual's ability to make humorous comments or jokes. For example, "He was known for his sharp comic wit."
"His comic wit degenerating into clenches" - thus Dryden on Shakespeare.
She was also a fine Spanish dancer and possessed a comic wit and timing that she exploited perfectly in "Don Quixote," and "Orpheus and the Underworld".
Thank goodness, then, for Seriously... I'm Kidding (Grand Central Publishing; £17.59) by the US comic and chat-show host Ellen DeGeneres, which contains pretty much all you would expect from a top-flight comic: wit, intelligence and illuminating anecdotes.
"It had been designed to show off his talents in terms of comic wit and charm," Dr McHugh said.
In a rich, varied career, he displayed a deep, analytical mind tempered with sharp wit and comic humor.
She combines the comic's wit with the straight man's tunnel vision.
I think that there are a few things that have helped me advance as quickly as I have and that I think are important for new comics, to wit: 1) Go to open mics.
help illustrate the comic's quick wit and well-thought out humor.
To the crowd chugging cups of Mr. Carolla's "mangria," the comic's acerbic wit was the draw.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison called her a "profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas".
He weeps during "It's a Wonderful Life" (a 1946 movie influenced by the '30s); he struggles mightily to overcome a dislike of Bing Crosby; he thrills to the music of George and Ira Gershwin, especially the way their rhymes "spice romantic feeling with an essentially comic flavor, harnessing wit to wooing, as Shakespeare's comic heroes always did".
