Sentence examples for cruel wit from inspiring English sources
He was a brilliant raconteur with a cruel wit.
He could laugh at himself, evidently, but preferred to exercise his notoriously cruel wit on others.
Through Bermann, Schnitzler deliberately undercuts moments of potential tragedy with an edge of cruel wit.
''You're not special any more.'' Oh, the cruel wit of soccer spectators.
Seemingly incapable of cynicism, but possessed of a sometimes cruel wit, he knew his worth and the worth of others.
As Robert Stone shrewdly warns in his introduction: "Paul Bowles's ruthless unsentimentality and cruel wit are not for everyone.
Its cruelest wit and funniest moments come in the back-stage machinations, the entertainment world's version of office politics.
My cheeks burned as if stung by the lash of Hagrid's umbrella and I wanted to do something, anything, to avenge this cruel and unusual banter from the press' cruelest wits.
At times, though, her work can slip into vague philosophizing or, worse, a cruel and facile wit.
The put-downs are cruel and the wit is withering, though my favourite tale is the book's most domestic.
But if Le Canard is all about scoops and unreported secrets, Charlie is both cruder and crueller - deploying a mix of cartoons and an often vicious polemical wit.
