Sentence examples for formidable wit from inspiring English sources
No one will forget Abe's genius, his talent, and his formidable wit.
Mr. Greenfield will be best remembered by his family for his fierce individualism, challenging intellect and formidable wit.
Nowadays most people know the standard operatic repertory being referred to here — "Il Trovatore," "Lucia di Lammermoor" — through pop-culture parodies in Marx Brothers movies and light beer commercials, forcing "Pirates" to win us over based not on the formidable wit of its music and structure but on the self-satisfied, tiresome cleverness of its wordplay and its nostalgic appeal.
With her formidable wit, provocative social observations, and magical gift with words, she touched countless audiences by providing a window into the often mystifying dance between men and women, and later, her wisdom on the tragic comedy of growing old.
But the speed of composition, and the melancholy circumstances, seem only to have quickened and compressed his formidable wits.
A female variety singer and a George Formby impersonator allow Doddy a chance to change suits and refresh his formidable quickfire wit.
Here, with all the elements in place for a formidable battle of wits with the reader, trouble begins with the mysterious death of a student named Ronald Treeves.
She displays a formidable comic gift — deadpan spontaneity with a puckish wit whirling behind it — along with that rarest of traits, star power.
She was a close friend to the great pianists of her day, in particular the Russian giants Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter, who respected her urbane wit and formidable musicianship.
Mr. Dewar, a skilled parliamentarian and formidable debater with a biting wit, found himself roundly criticized when the new Parliament building, which came to be called "Donald's Dome," was plagued by delays and cost overruns.
The heroine, 15-year-old Temple, moves easily and violently through a Deep South landscape infested with the menacing dead, living by her wits — which are formidable — and retaining, heroically, a sense of wonder at God's creation, "all that beauty in the suffered world".
