Sentence examples for melancholy wit from inspiring English sources

But in the booth, Eisen is the stud and Davis, despite a sly, melancholy wit, is the bullet-sweating neophyte.

"Lost in the Woods" is a fine showcase for Ms. Howard, and "Idiot Love," featuring Mr. McGinnis, has a droll, melancholy wit.

In its economy, clarity, melancholy wit and deep undertow of feeling, Ravel is beautifully conformable with the work of its subject.

Mr. Phillips favors group numbers, and several of them are striking, especially "Sermon of the Stones". "Lost in the Woods" is a fine showcase for Ms. Howard, and "Idiot Love," featuring Mr. McGinnis, has a droll, melancholy wit.

Gardner's latest series of watercolours, currently on show in London, offers a melancholy wit, pairing images of lone men surfing or skateboarding with depictions of trees as they journey from forest to logger's truck to picnic bench.

Miller wrote many of the songs while on a solo tour of England and Ireland, and they combine his trademark wordplay and sharp-eyed (if sometimes melancholy) wit with a sense of exploration and excitement.

Whatever the emotion, too: passion, wit, melancholy, outrage.

These movies defiantly embodied French culture in all of its urbanity, wit, melancholy, mischief, randiness and exquisite and meticulous craftsmanship.

Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film "a deeply personal piece of art that never descends into the confessional or the therapeutic, and a work of social and literary criticism that never lectures or hectors, but rather, with melancholy, tenderness and wit, manages to sing".

Marginally better, because they are firmly styled, are a shadowy woman at a window on Times Square by Jane Dickson and a painterly pastiche of a pulp paperback cover by Walter Robinson; they channel raw melancholy and righteous wit in properly low-down veins.

Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film "a deeply personal piece of art that never descends into the confessional or the therapeutic, and a work of social and literary criticism that never lectures or hectors, but rather, with melancholy, tenderness and wit, manages to sing".