Sentence examples for great wits from inspiring English sources
Ron Howard's plodding, pedestrian hagiography of troubled mathematician John Nash - who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia but went on to win the Nobel prize - is taken straight from Dryden's maxim about great wits being sure to madness near allied.
Anthony Rapp as Margaret's intimidated teacher is the soul of ineptitude as he occasionally steps gingerly into the cockpit where the two great wits are warring over ideas of no importance whatever.
As much as I loved the image of one of the great wits of the Algonquin Round Table lounging on a bed of ice, the bartender was referring to a brand of gin, one that's made in Brooklyn and named after someone who knew a little something about the pleasures of distilled spirits.
At 8 p.m., Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, juilliard.edu; $20. (La Rocco 20100318 KEIGWIN & COMPANY (Friday through Sunday) One of the great wits of contemporary dance, Larry Keigwin, a choreographer who can be taken seriously, offers the premiere of "Bird Watching," which makes the audience voyeurs beholding both avian and human rituals.
Most gruesome of all is a small, sticky-floored and tacky bar named after one of the great wits and cranks of the game -- and the man not only responsible for most of the Mets' early popularity but also the one who gave them the sobriquet "Amazin"' -- the justifiably legendary Casey Stengel, out from under whose hat once flew a bird.
You know, Ralph Hall has a great wit.
He had a sparkle in his eyes and great wit.
Those to Voltaire, extending over 43 years, contain great wit.
A kind, loving, devoted man of great wit.
His warmth, great wit and agile mind are irreplaceable.
