Sentence examples for mocking wit from inspiring English sources

But his ability to project authenticity has proved more difficult to imitate than his mocking wit.

The tone throughout was satirical, a lightly mocking wit deployed against design, against the consumer, against the trendiness embodied by M&Co and its clients.

There is yet another element we think of as quintessentially French, a mocking wit, in the third figure in the painting, grinning and peering at this scholarly tête-à-tête through a magnifying glass.

He drives a forklift, she tests the prawns in the same little factory in Norfolk, and appears meek and shy until you get to know and appreciate her gentle, mocking wit.

Chapman noted that Moore was the most comedic of the Bonds, with a more light-hearted approach to playing the character with a mocking wit and innuendo.

Paine would also more than likely have been familiar with Voltaire's mocking wit and the works of other deistic French philosophes.

Yet this with an ironic, self-mocking wit.

Beryl moved uniquely on the cusp between a finely self-mocking wit and steely seriousness.

Because his conservatism is imbued with an angular, self-mocking wit, which very nearly belies the down-home values being expressed, he catches readers up in the joke.

Ms. Zeta-Jones is as spirited and lovely as ever, but the movie is content to use her for her looks rather than for the arch, self-mocking wit that is her secret weapon as a comic actress.

At Harvard from 1946 to '50, where he roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara, Gorey borrowed a page from the bourgeois-mocking wit of writers like Firbank and Oscar Wilde to create a deadpan, ironic worldview, one that appears strikingly contemporary in retrospect.