Mr. Allen banks heavily on A-list actors and classic works of fiction but is light on wit and invention.
Mr. Allen, she added, "banks heavily on A-list actors and classic works of fiction but is light on wit and invention.
The light of his wit, his tender love, his noble heart, will live in our hearts.
Or — not that Stoppard, an amiable man whose modesty is genuine, would put it this way — shouldn't dazzling language, speed-of-light wit, and the launching of riveting ideas and real or invented historical juxtapositions into a vortex that continues spinning long after the final curtain, suffice?
Not only have comedies rarely won, there has been precious little humor in the films that did, their self-importance precluding a light touch or a flash of wit.
There should have more songs like Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's "We're Gonna Be All Right" (from "Do I Hear a Waltz?"), which undercut the sweetness and light with a bracing stab of wit.
The Boston Globe, comparing its debut episode ("a gloppy nostalgia trip that presented history the way MTV presents rock, in digestible, unrelated, bland bite-sized bits") to an episode airing less than five months later, found it "light years ahead in terms of wit, style and historical perspective.
While some examples in the slide show below, such as a perfume promotion with parachuting fragrance bottles, retain the light wit of The New Yorker's early years, many of them display a sombre and civic-minded tone.
On the modern stage, The Relapse has been established as one of the most popular Restoration comedies, valued for Vanbrugh's light, throwaway wit and the consummate acting part of Lord Foppington, a burlesque character with a dark side.
The skirmish of wit between Beatrice and Benedick that lights up "Much Ado" with its verbal pyrotechnics is subordinated in "These Paper Bullets!" to the general frenetic scene.
