"His designs are timeless because they are based on common sense and wit -- and not on passing fads".
She uses her smarts, common sense, and wit to do her best, and that's why she always seems so perfect.
Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's squire in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, a short, pot-bellied peasant whose gross appetite, common sense, and vulgar wit serve as a foil to the mad idealism of his master.
(Ages 12 and up) In these three short novellas, each about young teenagers dealing with horrific turns of fate -- a beloved aunt dies of AIDS, a deathbed promise must be kept, and a golfing companion carries a grisly burden in his backpack -- common sense, good will and wit prevail.
Our man on TV Beginning this month, Digital tools columnist Stephen Manes will cohost Digital Duo, a national Public Television series that should bolster his reputation for wit, common sense and unwillingness to bend to the prevailing winds.
He declared that the first work worthy to be called opéra-comique was Philidor's 1759 Blaise le savetier, and he described the gradual divergence of Italian and French notions of comic opera, with verve, imagination and gaiety from Italian composers, and cleverness, common sense, good taste and wit from the French composers.
He became a highly popular jurist, known for his wit and common sense if not for any brilliant juridical vision.
The best thing about "Sex and the City" is that it makes room for wit, raunchiness, common sense and fantasy.
Under the flag of free expression, David Cameron and the editors tried to close ranks as though it were beyond wit or common sense to disentangle the one from the other.
Although this book owes a huge debt to the classic study on this subject Richard Hofstadter's "Paranoid Style in American Politics" Mr. Aaronovitch, who is a columnist for The Times of London, deconstructs a dizzying array of conspiracy theories in these pages with unsparing logic, common sense and at times exasperated wit.
