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.
"It's a roll-up-your-sleeves game," said Zuiker, who's partnering with reality-show maven Cris Abrego ("The Surreal Life," "Next Action Star") to produce "Whodunnit?" "It relies on common sense, wit and mettle".
"His designs are timeless because they are based on common sense and wit -- and not on passing fads".
Seeing their interaction up close, you come to realize how much Stanley and Blanche actually have in common: intelligence and wit and a healthy appetite for sex and for drink.
I also wrote "Crazy Wisdom," a book about the common threads of wit and chutzpah that unite mystics, jesters and tricksters of history.
To wit, common law over 500 years ago, "subjecthood" rather than citizenship, and the legal status of the British empire's outlying territories.
Over the last century or so, movie quotations, like pop-music lyrics, have come to replace Biblical verses and Shakespearean couplets as our cultural lingua franca, our common store of wit and wisdom.
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.
She uses her smarts, common sense, and wit to do her best, and that's why she always seems so perfect.
