For all the wit and politesse of their acceptance speeches, these brilliant American film-makers were enjoying the status we as their loyal acolytes were indulging.
But for all the wit and eccentricity that Mr. Pacino quite properly brings to Herod, and for all the stentorian utterances of David Strathairn as Jokannan (as John is known here), and for all of Dianne Wiest's nice underplaying of Salome's mother, Herodius, none of them is that different from the characters as they appear in a good production of Strauss's opera.
But for all the addled wit and hairy masculinity of his main characters, Kinder's prose has the range to encompass the tenderness of romantic love and the longing for the infinite that haunts these men.
For all the sly wit of some of these pictures, the knowledge that one of the titans of American art is now gone lends the series the ache of an elegy.
Bookforum was more skeptical, saying that "for all the sprightliness and wit, it's too good-humored to attain real satiric bite".
For all the universal force of her wit, Reza remains deeply grounded in French culture, where seriousness is more highly regarded than laughter.
Josh Funk and Andy Cobb, of the Public Service Administration, are no fans of the "Washington Post"'s adventures with webcams, noting that the two men who go on them are "widely criticized for having all the charm, wit and insight of a frathouse open mic night".
FOR all the undoubted wit of their neuroscience-inspired concept album, "Heavy Mental"—songs include "Mind-Body Problem" and "All in a Nut"—The Amygdaloids are unlikely to loom large in the annals of rock and roll.
Since our cliché cartoon contest was such a rousing success, discounting, of course, those who thought it was a rousing failure, I've devised another contest for all the cultivated wits who read this blog.
By Robert Mankoff September 27, 2013 Since our cliché cartoon contest was such a rousing success, discounting, of course, those who thought it was a rousing failure, I've devised another contest for all the cultivated wits who read this blog.
As for the wit … one day we were talking about Stalin.
