Sentence examples for in their wit from inspiring English sources

But in their wit, objectivity, and metaphorical novelty, they are brazenly contemporary.

As with Pamela Harriman, the last century's most famous nice-girl-turned-courtesan-turned-diplomat, their value lay in their wit, sometimes beauty and the scenes that they created around themselves.

Here the barriers to romantic understanding are inner and psychological and must be defeated by the good-natured plotting of their friends, who see that Beatrice and Benedick are truly made for one another in their wit and candour if they can only overcome their fear of being outwitted by each other.

When Philip tells us about an Exeter graduation photograph, in which awkward young Philip stands next to the more confident Jamie Dyer, his formulations, though nearly Wildean in their wit, draw attention not to that photograph but to themselves: "Be­tween the tremor of my smile, the fire of my acne, the tidal wave of my hair, I resembled the Lisbon earthquake, whereas Jamie was Candide".

Fran checks into budget hotels up and down the country in order to inspect failing institutions whose inhabitants are more often than not left "softly wandering in their wits".

"It was very important for us to give readers the feeling that fashion was something they could have a lot more agency in their experience wit," Ms. France said.

I have seen several stagings of the "Carmen" opera that did better; and late last year, as Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, Erwin Schrott did a very few flamenco-type steps that, in their pride, wit and incisiveness, said more about the character he was playing than anything Ms. Arauzo or her Gades colleagues did at City Center.

Mr. Monicelli, now 94, is a well-known director of comedy, and this is at times a picaresque tale, as Giovanni and Oreste become slackers-in-arms, using all their wit and skill to avoid difficult and dangerous duties and by hook or by crook to survive the conflict.

"He and Kim are nearer together in age, and their wit seems to have a common source, possibly to do with both being North American.

That one's from "All of You," by Cole Porter, a Midwestern WASP who went to Yale, yet who wrote lyrics that fit squarely into what Lehman understands as a tradition that "followed a Jewish imperative in their abundant humor, wit, and cleverness and in their ability to mix sadness and elation and to produce thereby the mysterious tingle of romance".

I did more listening than talking, quaffed wine and sat at their feet, drinking in their words and their wit and their wisdom.