Sentence examples for crafty wit from inspiring English sources
Cold-eyed and distant, Hoss doesn't make a naturally sympathetic heroine, but her resourcefulness under pressure comes to matter in a tense, taut drama with some crafty wit up its sleeve.
Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon (Hamish Hamilton) is an extraordinary mix of awesome adventure treated as an everyday job, marine biology, some crafty sociology and sly wit by a unique writer-hero and a most articulate reporter from the edge of things.
Sly wit was always evident.
After nearly a dozen of them, he's better loved than paid, and best (but not well enough) known not only for his guitar wizardry and his urbane honky-tonk wit but for his crafty country songs and his wicked sendups of such songs.
Willliams's Southerners have never seemed so grossly feebleminded, while Mr. Cake's crafty Sicilian is a gleaming paragon of wit and virtue.
Its most famous exports are Viktor and Rolf, but you also have the likes of London-based Hawaii-aholic Maarten van der Horst (a fellow Lichting panel member), the crafty Michael van der Ham, or Eighties' knit-wit Koos Van Den Akker, creator of Bill Cosby's decidedly loud signature sweaters.
Judicious applications of Perry's knowing wit energize the tutor-pupil dynamics between Walker and Max Stillman, the crafty and somewhat sinister P.I. who calls the shots on this case.
Indeed, those who are new to the play, or in general to pyrotechnical Shavian wit, may very well be perplexed by Shaw's evident affection for the crafty monster he has created.
At their wits' end, the sleepless Greek leaders call a late-night conference and send two able warriors, the ferocious Diomedes and the crafty Odysseus, to spy on the Trojan positions.
