The book's disarming and companionable tone only grates when descending into dressing-room boorishness – various batsmen parrying his question of whether scoring a century is "better than sex" with varying degrees of wit.
The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote, "Another collection of horrors, of varying degrees of wit.
Lemmings Revolution may have the latest in 3D graphics, but Snoozleberg gives you the same degree of wit and ingenuity.
The format of the debate is similar to that of the House of Commons and is known for combining a degree of wit and whimsy with serious argumentation.
The small paintings form tidy thematic sequences — about personal grooming and maintenance, tabloid culture, precaution and fear in times of war, child-rearing — that ask, with a fair degree of wit and a debater's persistence, how far we are willing to go for beauty, security, and entertainment.
Particularly in the opening comment and the news, Fielding injected a degree of wit or "liveliness" not seen in his previous publications; he stated in the first number that he planned to avoid the "dullness" seen in other contemporary periodicals: Discussion in the Journal was chiefly concerned with matters of literary criticism, and "the social and moral health of the body politic".
Ramsey Isler of IGN reiterated his own enjoyment of the premise of the episode, but went on to state, "While I can appreciate the point that good comedy does take a certain degree of wit and cleverness, this just wasn't a very satisfying end to an idea that had so much potential".
What is not in doubt is the degree of skill, wit and resourcefulness with which this story is told.
Bob Dylan has always had more than a degree of irony, wit and whimsy to his lyrics, and his voice is not beautiful in a traditional sense; the nasally twang we heard in the early sixties has become much more raspy and gravelly.
Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy not only has a steep learning curve to achieve acceptable WIT but also requires skills that are challenged by its technical difficulties, including the use of instruments that have limited degrees-of-freedom.
She is revelatory about the Olympian degree of intelligence and wit in the choreography that Fayard, the elder brother by seven years, made for the pair over decades, and she analyzes, to the eyelashes, the differences between Fayard's innate musicality and grace and Harold's meltingly winsome abilities to mimic his elder brother.
