Sentence examples for genius wit from inspiring English sources

Jane Austen said that it had nothing to recommend it but "genius, wit and taste".

Today, we fondly remember Bob's genius, wit, and compassion, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

He could sing, dance and act, and beyond those fairly common gifts, when you add the distinctive voice, faultless instinct for wording, genius wit, hilarious physical movement, rich supply of expressions and physical "takes" — and the list goes on — it arguably adds up to the most supremely gifted comedian of our time.

Jane Austen, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Miss Austen's novels… seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.

At the opening of last night's third season premiere, we were treated to a topical Handmaid's Tale inspired skit that was just a bit south of funny, where the first and second season's winners reminded us exactly how they captured our hearts: Alaska with her genius wit and toe-curling vocal fry and Chad Michaels with her immovable mug.

Hardly fair for a genius of deadly wit and fertile ingenuity, even if he did put his best clothes on to write music – his way of serving God.

For Pearson the biographer, the essays and dialogues exhibit every aspect of Wilde's genius and character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and scholar and concludes that "no other productions of his have as varied an appeal".

Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a positive review, saying "The master chefs at Pixar have blended all the right ingredients -- abundant verbal and visual wit, genius slapstick timing, a soupcon of Gallic sophistication -- to produce a warm and irresistible concoction".

She calls Mr. Simpson one of the "true visionaries," whose wit and genius for color and balance never fails to move people.

This was the time at which the distinction was first insisted upon between the "intellect" and a faculty called ingegno, ingenium, "wit" or "genius," as especially inventive of art; and, corresponding to this, a faculty of judgment, which was not a ratiocination or logical judgment, because it judged "without discourse" or "without concepts," and came to be called "taste".