Sentence examples for form of wit from inspiring English sources

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Sarcasm, often derided as the lowest form of wit, actually makes people brighter and more creative.

Even the lowest form of wit, after all, can sometimes pay its way in insight.

2/10 PH Sarcasm, as I'm sure you're well aware, is the lowest form of wit.

To Ambrose Bierce it was a "form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire".

As Oscar Wilde believed, sarcasm may represent a lower form of wit, but we found that it certainly catalyses a higher form of thought".

It's a form of wit arguably lower even than sarcasm: toilet humour, the kind of scatological funnies beloved by young children, and, guiltily, everyone else.

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(Of all the forms of wit, mimicry is the one that most delights friends and lives least well on the page; its absence is one of the things that make Amis seem less fun in his Life than he must have been in his life).

A form of repartee, wit implies both a mental agility and a linguistic grace that is very much a product of conscious art.

While critics and dealers wrongly saw Polke's moral complexity as a form of postmodern wit, he saw them as gullible.

This formula can be shown to have a general validity for all forms of humour and wit, some of which will be discussed below.

Celtic need more of that kind of wit and imagination.

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