Sentence examples for kind of wit from inspiring English sources

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That kind of wit, unfortunately, is in short supply at "666 Park Avenue".

This is the kind of wit and poetry and surprise that Twist routinely produces.

Dryden, for example, called puns, or "clenches", the "lowest and most groveling kind of wit".

THE inglorious pun! Dryden called it the "lowest and most groveling kind of wit".

"She established my sense of humour for me – that very dry, sarcastic, non-winking kind of wit.

"No one captures the messiness, the frailty or the integrity of humanity with the kind of wit and affection Jim Brooks does," Ms. Pascal wrote.

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They don't display the kind of wits a viewer might hope to match.

"Every time she came to my door, it was, you know, 'What fresh hell is this?' I usually saw her when she was drunk, but I know she had some kind of wits about her, because she got shit done in our neighborhood.

I wanted to protect the good kinds of wit from the bad.

It is a class thing too, of course, that kind of dry wit.

This is the kind of structural wit we associate with Haydn and Mozart; in ballet, Ashton was its master.

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