A grand tour of Europe had helped to make him "an ingenious architect and wit", in the words of the scientist Robert Hooke.
"The spirit of Heath Robinson's absurd yet insightful inventions through to his ingenious sense of wit helped to inform the graphic setting and design endeavor in this specific proposal.
Written by fabulous first-time screenwriters Sarah Hehman and Christi Sperry, Homecoming delivers an ingenious blend of wit, whimsy, and wisdom, confidently helmed by director-producer Paul Kampf, who transforms the Portland environs of executive producer Holly Levow into a poignant portrait of modern, upper-middle-class ennui.
With its continued parade of the ingenious and outrageous (to wit: a taxidermy werewolf hand, suitable for waving at the moon — not suitable for self gratification by Taylor Lautner), Bureau of Trade will never be all things to all people.
A multi-generational epic, it folds many worlds into a pocket-size container by way of an ingenious stylization; though the wit and the execution aren't always up to the conceit, it's still one of the most distinctive, imaginative, and original of recent independent films.
"For most of its length this film bears no resemblance to the game, but eventually a moderately ingenious way is found for the fight against the aliens to at least suggest the old you-sunk-my-battleship war of wits," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
His works abound with arresting and memorable phrases, ingenious aphorisms, bold and ironic puns, wit, sarcasm, countless words of his own coinage, and a constant stream of invective against his opponents.
It's an ingenious conceit, realized with mighty intelligence, taste, wit, and an audaciously calm sense of free fall; yet it's also, foremost, a great script.
Living by his wits, this resourceful assassin devises ingenious ways of avoiding capture and faking out Jack.
They are ingenious people, it can't be beyond their wit to stop these crimes, particularly those particularly serious allegations we have heard of over the weekend".
One reviewer comments this "ingenious poem" with its "playful sallies of sarcastic wit" against "our modern ladies," though others found it "a tedious, lifeless piece of writing".
