Sentence examples for humane wit from inspiring English sources
She gave her material the full benefit of her large intelligence, her powers of observation, her humane wit, and her wide reading.
Kirsty Dunseath, publishing director at Weidenfeld and Nicolson Fiction, said: "In many ways Paul Torday invented his own genre - his extraordinary fiction was filled with warmth and a wry, humane wit.
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, from 28 March until 1 July Gillian Wearing There was always a humane wit and poetic realism about Wearing that made her early work hugely attractive.
Maurice Morgann wrote such character-based analyses as appear in his book An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff (1777), where Falstaff is envisaged as larger than life, a humane wit and humorist who is no coward or liar in fact but a player of inspired games.
It's a tale that's as charming as the old Gregory Peck-Audrey Hepburn movie "Roman Holiday," and as keenly observed as Stephen Frears's award-winning movie "The Queen" — a tale that showcases its author's customary élan and keen but humane wit.
These juvenile sketches also show the early blossoming of two other hallmark features of his more mature work: a phenomenal visual memory and an acute, satirical yet ever-humane wit.
"That's very touching, and it also shows a kind of humane and sad wit.
As with Wallace's "Infinite Jest," in "The Savage Detectives" Bolaño delivered a genuine epic inoculated against grandiosity by humane irony, vernacular wit and a hint of punk-rock self-effacement.
The restoration of a vigorous, wide-ranging interest in life is an admirable goal, and Phillips addresses himself to the task with wit, humane intelligence and a sensitivity to the insights of Shakespeare, Blake, Keats and Henry James, alongside those of Freud and D. W. Winnicott.
The wit, the humane impulses, the mixture of self-awareness and self-deception, the glints of charm, make of Christian and Kirsten far more than what they represent.
As he views the war between the sexes, it's a contest of unisex gag writers.Herbert Ross, this year's "hot" director (what with "The Turning Point" already out and Mr. Simon's new play, "Chapter Two," about to open), who is a man of wit and humane concerns, appears to have put his talent so totally in the service of the Simon script that I have no idea what his contributions to the movie may be.
