Sentence examples for literary wit from inspiring English sources

Propped up in a wheelchair, able to communicate only by blinking his left eye (the other, in one especially nightmarish scene, has been sewn shut to prevent infection), he remains a sensualist, a bon vivant and a keen literary wit.

As in his earlier novel, "The Horned Man", an Economist book of the year in 2002, "Seven Lies" combines the knuckle-whitening tension of a thriller with literary wit and the precision of a surgeon seeking to tease out rotten flesh.

While you're at it, why not delete your old blog, that embarrassing attempt at literary wit that still lingers online?

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That literary wit and incisiveness is accompanied by something else: a genuine admiration for the original work, despite the implicit feminist critique.

Maybe because it was his one ill-fated attempt to initiate a contest of literary wits.

Monty Python were the clever-clever literary wits whereas, in Oddie's words, "we were intelligent, but accessible".

She was associated with the Algonquin Round Table of literary wits, and she collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a number of plays, including Dinner at Eight (1932) and Stage Door (1936).

"I love the golden age of the '20s, and even earlier," Nelson says, reeling off the names of such literary wits as P.G.

Gore and moral ambiguity were out, but so largely were wit, literary influences and attention to social issues.

He possessed the gifts of all successful polemicists: conceit, passion, wit, literary elegance, an instinctive suspicion of, and disdain for, power and wealth.