Sentence examples for cool wit from inspiring English sources

All this Wilson captures with cool wit and an appropriate deadpan sneer.

But in addition to kinetic storytelling and spot-on dialogue, Leonard has a cool wit.

Goold's production does it with a cool wit that actually enhances the story's satire.

Patrick, with his cool wit, plays the adult role quite well; but he is really always the throbbing child, pulsing with pain.

Mr. Linney's version makes her feisty, and Beatrice Winde's portrayal gives her a cool wit to express her impatience and inner rage.

Made with cool wit and mechanical precision, yet exuding feelings of abandonment and sadness, they could be postmodernist homages to Mr. Sheeler's elegiac Modernism.

It was a testament to La Guardia's faith in the cool wits of New Yorkers that he expected them to peruse the neighborhood for "Cover" signs while dodging flying debris.

It was all there, under the loose but focused direction of Jon Favreau, who pushed the casting of Downey -- now the world's biggest movie star but then still recovering from a notorious spate of self-defeating behaviors -- the optimism, the insouciant cool, the wit and humor, the streaks of darkness, the sometimes pointed social commentary.

What astonishes is the cool, sardonic wit that the Presnyakov brothers bring to their task.

With Loesser you always got both -- the "wisdom and truth" and the tangy cool martini wit.

Mary was an altogether quieter and gentler soul, with perfect manners and a cool, intelligent wit that sometimes took strangers by surprise.