Sentence examples for crisp and witty from inspiring English sources

"You shag sheep," came the crisp and witty reply from the bloke in front of me.

"Her copy always arrived crisp and witty, full of extraordinary stories about her own life, and about the close friends who were testament to her warmth," she said.

Director Marc Evans elevates the low-budget genre movie into a masterful piece of suspense cinema: the stock characters are present but the writing is crisp and witty.

In Twyla Tharp's "Push Comes to Shove," a crisp and witty Patricia Delgado appeared to have been born dancing Ms. Tharp's demanding choreography.

Here, one feels, is the sort of yarn that Alfred Hitchcock might have had fun with: he would have kept it crisp and witty and light on its toes.

Her last point is true only if crisp, concise and witty prose is unentertaining.

Humour is forged out of crisp words and witty music working as one.

By turns crisp, jaunty, nimble and witty, Abse's fleet-footed verse draws on every dimension of a rich joint life: movies, music, babies, medicine, cities, suburbs, country, families, travels, quarrels, and passages of sweet togetherness.

The Countess Ross is American: witty, crisp, and, as the Count says, "formidable".

In Mike Poulton's superb translation, which is at once crisp, witty, and actable, the vastness of the characters' loss and the folly of their capacity for denial come sensationally into focus..

Gilbert often writes superbly, his sentences crisp, witty, and rightly weighted.