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The Roman poets Catullus, Martial, and Horace produced much witty vers de société and have often been translated or closely paraphrased; but much strikingly original verse has come from poets or other writers known for their serious works.

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But the virtual Twitter me is so much wittier and more interesting than the real me.

The four aliens physically resemble the nastier and much wittier monsters of Joe Dante's "Gremlins" (1984).

How much wittier it would be to counterpoint Thompson's timely demonstration of the dubious bond-trading bonanza with a burst of the baroque.

It doesn't, alas, get much wittier: Verlander's ERA is now an enormous 4.80, anyway, after the Tigers' 7-0 shellacking by the Tribe.

"The Impressionist," a much wittier and zestier book than its title suggests, echoes the mischievousness of Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" in its satirical scope.

As cult movies go, "The Big Lebowski" is much wittier than "Animal House" or "Hairspray," and free of the dumb-bunny silliness of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or the fumy mystical pretensions of "El Topo".

Primed to find comic possibilities in even the most innocuous exchange, she is so generous with her laughter that I leave under the happy delusion that I'm much wittier than I actually am.

As cant cops go, the guardians of the Guardian's own style guide are more forgiving and much wittier than most (ruefully quoting mistakes from this very paper), though they veer somewhat unpredictably between two flavours of normativity: the pragmatic and local (what is right for the Guardian), and the universal (what is right tout court).

If Arcadia's UK cover is a much finer encapsulation of the promise of innocence in the book's title, and its eventual corruption, the US hits back with a much wittier take on Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? On the other hand, perhaps the US should be cast into the outer darkness for giving Hilary Mantel's magisterial Bring Up the Bodies a sub-Georgette Heyer cover?

Some of it is puerile or third-rate, much youthful, witty and strong.

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