In places, 2 Chainz still has a sparkling, odd wit — "heart filled with passion, neck filled with mansions," he raps on "U Da Realest," or, when, on "Feds Watching," he describes throwing money in the strip club as "make you and George Washington headbutt".
This odd poetic wit becomes part of the dance's fabric in a way that reminds me of the inventiveness of Haydn.
Despite the odd flash of wit, they are rather tiresome, as letters of complaint — unless you are the complainant – tend to be.
It's a sloppy and uneven show, but occasionally Mr. Tyson flashes the wit and odd, almost childlike charisma that make you wish him well in the future despite all those past mistakes (2 00).
This is a book that combines moral passion with steely forensic precision, enlivened with the odd flash of dry wit.
Written in clear prose, with the odd moment of dry wit, it is a damning indictment of the Russian president and his state, and of the two, sometimes hapless, poisoners - Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi - who followed its secret orders.
At once naïve and wily, the diction summons up the hobbledehoy eagerness, skeptical wit and odd hardscrabble decorum of a half-remembered, half-concocted native idiom with such verve that you can scarcely tell the genuine colloquialisms from the ones he's just made up.
Like so much of Greer's more recent writing, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You is an odd mixture of enormous energy, wit and cosummate vulgarity and snobbishness.
A preference for the 18th century, with its measured music and mathematical wit, seemed an odd choice for a boy from the mean streets of Morrisania.
He does not converse but talks solo — creatively, decisively, and fascinatingly, with wit, ideas, and odd images, his ever-present Spanish accent seasoning his phrases, which emerge in bursts.
There was the odd glimmer of the old wit: slagging off Jeff Pope's grammar, telling us he was so moved by Oprah in The Butler he nearly gave his the afternoon off.
