Sentence examples for crisp wit from inspiring English sources

Adults so often don't properly listen to what children are saying, which the writer, with her crisp wit and sharp observation, beautifully points out.

To the moral seriousness established by Orwell and others, they added a crisp wit and a panache welcomed by a country emerging from some stark and difficult years.

And the production, which is directed with crisp wit by Mark Wing-Davey, has the handsome, chilly stylishness of high-end lofts, galleries and techno-clean design.

Bertrand Russell, who had a prodigious knowledge of history and a crisp wit, claimed in 1930 that he could think of only two useful contributions that religion had made to civilization.

As the leader of the Auteurs and, later, Black Box Recorder, Haines wrote a handful of indelible songs characterised by the crisp wit of his lyrics and the elegance of his arrangements.

Dooce: With stunning pictures and crisp wit, mom and former Web designer Heather Armstrong chronicles her life and the world around her. Escape From Cubicle Nation: Career coach Pamela Slim offers easy-to-follow marketing and business advice to help workers funnel their passions into their work.

These complications are interesting only insofar as they inspire tirades of petulant self-pity, waspish anger and antic anxiety on the part of Garry, all delivered in the kind of crisp, wit-laced, elegant dialogue for which we still treasure Coward, who wrote the role (in 1939) as an affectionate send-up of himself and played it on tour in 1942 and subsequently in London and America.

Cavalcanti, who also contributed an episode to the marvelous Ealing horror anthology "Dead of Night," handles the story with crisp, vigorous wit.

If Maude's earth-sprite aphorisms, occasionally overindulged by the screenwriter Colin Higgins, rub you the wrong way, the crisp visual wit of the director Hal Ashby's compositions will set you up.

In 1997 our reviewer, Richard Jenkyns, said that while it's a mixed bag, "her admirers will find much... to enjoy: that crisp, dark wit and above all the elusive gift of uniqueness -- that distinctive voice, that distinctive vision of the world".

But Ms. Myles inhabits the role with such crisp and understated wit that she manages to hold such doubts at bay.