Sentence examples for native wit from inspiring English sources

Cicero stressed the importance of a well-stocked mind and native wit against mere handbook technique.

Knights jousted, aristocrats dueled, and romantics seduced with their native wit.

"The average American has an indigenous intelligence, a native wit," he said.

Nor, despite the research and native wit that Ms. Shear has poured into this play, do the reactions that the statue elicits seem altogether fresh.

His salty native wit is complemented by the clear and lofty lyricism that has come down to us in his great speeches.

The historic native wit of this east end community (and its followers from around the world) often has an interesting logic to its phrases.

The courtly love themes, introduced into Irish literature by the Norman invaders, were used with native bardic wit and felicitous style to produce the enchanting poems called dánta grádha.

This was a young woman who could mix it up with the famously pithy and quick-thinking Fab Four, her native Mersey wit making her stand out in an era when the "dolly bird" – seen but not heard – was the company of choice for most young pop stars.

Schwarzenegger's native charm and wit finally came through in the acclaimed documentary Pumping Iron (1977), which led to his starring role in Conan the Barbarian (1982).

"Politically, we searched for legitimacy for a long time," says Passon, a Jewish New Jersey native full of wit, passion and occasional grandiosity.

He also feels a special connection to the artist David Hockney, a fellow Yorkshire native whose pop-cultural wit Bailey grew up admiring.