Sentence examples for old wit from inspiring English sources

Yet the old wit and erudition are still there.

Before long, Mr. Lawrence was even beginning to display a little of his old wit.

It's true that even on this subject there are flashes of the old wit.

She was frail and her memory was intermittent but she was still beautiful and she still showed flashes of her old wit and great charm.

But the extra girth suits them well, and their old wit and twinkle hasn't deserted them as the shimmering, harmony-laden pop of Miss Fortune attests.

Still possessed of his old wit and lyrical elegance into the 21st century, Thielemans made a sequence of fine recordings with a sensitive group including the Dutch bassist Hein Van de Geyn and the pianist Karel Boehlee.

Hence, the youthful willfulness of the country has outrun the old wits, but there remains a chance for wisdom and energy to be coupled in a future coherent and rich tradition, and he sees the beginnings of such a tradition in James's pragmatism.

Adding some 300-year-old wit to Yale's tercentenary celebration is the Yale Repertory Theater's production of William Congreve's comic masterpiece, "The Way of the World," opening Friday and running through March 3.

There is less room for the old idiosyncratic wit.

"It couldn't be something like, 'You'll never practice archery again.' " Ah, the old Ed Lowe wit.

Once again reunited with Chas Jankel and the Blockheads, he embarked on a series of concerts that showed he had lost none of his old verve, wit or musical skill.