Your suggestion that "last week it seemed that everyone was conspiring to terrify" Americans "out of their wits" (editorial, Oct. 20) may be a blessing in disguise.
Finally, formally adroit but more explicit in content are the large-scale drawings by Enrique Chagoya at George Adams, which combine Phillip Guston grotesquerie with the razor-edge wit of editorial cartoons.
With all the wit of a college newspaper editorial cartoon, the mural was not whitewashed because of its infantile attempt at protest.
An editorial in Barron's argued that "half-wit speculators" who purchase risky stocks on analysts' recommendations don't deserve legal protection and that Spitzer was trampling on the First Amendment rights of the analysts.
Columnists and editorial writers have indulged themselves in paroxysms of anti-American wit.
Cartoons are used today primarily for conveying political commentary and editorial opinion in newspapers and for social comedy and visual wit in magazines.
Her editorial style tended strongly to the personal, even idiosyncratic, and included sharp wit and venom among its weapons.
These artist-owned works (which, by the way, are not for sale) make up their own mini-retrospective, proving that Mr. Thiebaud possesses, in addition to wit, tactility and a kind of halo vision, a strong editorial eye.
(A Guardian editorial, "In praise of... the hatchet job", offered as Rule No 3: "Puncture pretension with wit" – that's the Wolcott way).
Now a Portuguese wit suggests rebranding the whole country as Poortugal.Amid furious protests and thundering editorials, such mordant humour was a restrained response to the draft 2013 budget that Vítor Gaspar, the finance minister, presented on October 15th.
