Sentence examples for engaging wit from inspiring English sources

Last year our reviewer, Richard Eder, called this "a mix of engaging wit and serious inquiry".

A mix of engaging wit and serious inquiry, his book is several things.

Ogilvy, 33, is a distinctive presence on the PGA Tour, a thoughtful Australian with an engaging wit and a natural gift for conversation.

Richard Gachot's "What will I be when I grow up?" earned an honorable mention for its combination of engaging wit and poignancy.

Many of Mr. Dylan's early songs, like "All I Really Want to Do," typified the structure he employed so masterfully: uncomplicated, engaging wit, structured around a simple melody and primitively strummed rhythm.

But Jez Bond's sparky production charts the descent into mayhem with engaging wit as the alarming extent of Natasha's rigid, theory-based parenting is exposed and as Izzy launches into a drunken, gloriously incoherent aria of self-pity about the multi-cultural conspiracy that has left decent, confused white folk afraid to open their mouths for fear of committing some hate crime.

In the latter essay, he goes to some lawyerly length to address the "most Scrooge-like of questions: is there a constitutional issue here?" As often with Hitchens, the brilliance of the self-righteous anger, and the engaged wit of the delivery, makes you think he is joking.

She had an ironic and sometimes ribald wit, engaging in puns and wordplay.

He engaged in "wit-combats" with Shakespeare and reigned supreme.

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, who saw the Off-Broadway production in 2012, said it was "a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play" that "bristles with wit and intelligence" and "puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another".

There were plenty of fight sequences and some familiar imagery that brought cheers from the crowd: Legolas pulling back his bow, Gandalf shuffling through dark caverns, Bilbo and Gollum engaging in a battle of wits and delicious Earth mother Galadriel telling Gandalf to give her a call if he needs her help.