Sentence examples for entertaining wit from inspiring English sources

The seriousness is tempered, however, with an urbane and entertaining wit, as a skip through 69 Love Songs attests.

As a boy Sir Jonathan was a noisy attention-seeker; at school he was a talkative and entertaining wit; as a Cambridge undergraduate he liked to turn heads by walking barefoot through the streets carrying a large marrow.

It is a mark of his ease at this altitude, possibly as the perfect guest and also as a formidably entertaining wit, that he is emphatically neither a name dropper nor a snob.

Though clearly the NASCAR driver's entertaining wit helped drive his huge fan base to vote for him through this finish line.

Many have been published within collections; they are, according to The Independents reviewer: "a delight, full of the sparks of an abrasive and entertaining wit, refreshingly free from politeness".

My only regret for this talk was that, unfortunately for the listeners, some of his extremely entertaining dry wit was lost on many of those listening who do not speak (Northern) English as a first language.

He was book editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1933 to 1943, and from 1938 to 1948 he was master of ceremonies of the popular radio program Information Please, on which he and such panelists as Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, and Oscar Levant used questions submitted by listeners as occasions for an entertaining display of wit and erudition.

Yet poor, tragic Charlie has nonetheless become an emblem of these twin failures, for his party and the union, with a pathos sharpened by the memory of how good, on his day, he once was.He was an uncluttered thinker and, with his ribald, smoker's voice and pithy wit, an entertaining speaker.

But the conceit goes far to frame an entertaining movie full of wit, locations both glitzy and grim, as well as some groan-worthy humor.

To wit, a highly entertaining and somewhat shocking YouTube that is a true "must-see," entitled "Millennials Show the World What They Believe Old Looks Like".

His waspish wit can make him entertaining company at a party, but there is little evidence of that in his largely turgid prose.