Sentence examples for modicum of wit from inspiring English sources

Not real satire, which requires some modicum of wit.

Terence Blanchard's game musical score, at least, offers a modicum of wit and invention.

Had the film-makers possessed a modicum of wit, though, they'd have marshalled some adorable woodland creatures to help her scrub the plates with their fluffy bottoms.

Essential qualifications: good writer in the 800-900 word form, range of interests, political independence (from individuals and parties, not ideologies), modicum of wit, capacity for self-criticism and changes of mind.

If someone at headquarters had a modicum of wit and imagination, they would have sprinkled white rose petals at his feet when he bathed in the warmth of a standing ovation at the end of play.

Still, for men who are growing too old for this game, the sextet's enthusiasm never seems to wane and, as the enjoyably silly Air Guitar shows, the odd track contains at least a modicum of wit.

"Black Dynamite" was made with evident affection and a modicum of visual wit — Mr. Sanders's nose for aged cinematic cheese is impressive — but the movie wears itself out long before The Man gets his comeuppance.

Though it is "made with evident affection and a modicum of visual wit," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in October, "the filmmakers' tweaking of old-style militancy and old-fashioned racial oppression never amounts to much beyond a sendup of pop-cultural attitudes that were often self-mocking to begin with".

Improve your sense of wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Establishing that modicum of trust took years.