At that time Talleyrand appeared to be a typical court cleric, spending more time with the most fashionable wits and beauties of the day than with churchmen.
Fast-talking New Yorkers, spiky Yiddish wit, and a fashionable Norwegian setting; a love story, a funeral, and an endorsement by Jonathan Safran Foer.
So let me not simply join ranks with the chorus but rather point out his engaging wit and soothing voice, and a fashionable look that speaks loud n clear of eclectic loves and interests.
Values had changed since Shakespeare's day: the new audience consisted of fashionable young cynics and dilettantes, self-indulgent rakes and wits who prized glittering conversation and were interested only in seeing themselves on stage, however satirical the portrait.
The sober elegance and wit of such an exemplar could not be less fashionable.
Crippled, Catholic, and of modest social station, Pope relies on influential friends, adroit flattery, and prodigious wit to gain access to the heady coffeehouses and fashionable drawing rooms on which his success depends.
A natural quick wit, she also appeared on Blankety Blank in 1987, much to the surprise and delight of her fashionable circle.
Rereading Stendhal's "Lucien Leuwen," with its fashionable drawing-room conversations, I pause over the key words that capture the various attitudes of the participants: vanité, vulgaire, esprit (wit — "that vitriolic acid eating at everything"), ridicule, politesse ("infinite manners, no feeling"), bien-pensant (right thinking).
A sly wit often punches up the prose, and he is hip in the original sense of the word, which was "knowing," not "fashionable".
