Chris has a wicked wit and he encourages the wit of his guests, even including on his panels comics like John Fugelsang of America's Funniest Home Videos fame.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
They also encouraged his "paisa wit," which is a way of being "flexible, easygoing, and creative," a common trait in parts of Colombia.
My sister loves to tell a story about how this drove my mother to distraction until one day, possibly at wit's end, she grabbed a Halloween mask and put it on to encourage me to eat.
I encourage you to read the excellent remembrances and obituaries, linked above, about a genius, whose rich life was filled with fun, wit, love, music and an enormous curiosity about the human potential that can be unlocked by neurochemistry.
With wisdom, wit, humor, and humility she encouraged Christians of all denominational backgrounds to understand the past and face the future.
At least Marge Simpson had the wit to criticise it for "encouraging punching, boastfulness, and rudeness to hoes" when she banned Bart from going to a rap concert.
In Caged Bird, Mrs. Flowers encourages her to listen carefully to "Mother Wit", which Hagen defines as the collective wisdom of the African-American community as expressed in folklore and humor.
Novelists, poets, essayists, and university humanists, emerging from their proud corners, find it hard to talk of character, judgment, perceptiveness, wit, empathy, and other such virtues encouraged by serious reading.
Each savage dissection of a leading public figure only encouraged the next to try to pit his or her wits against the daunting Italian.
