Sentence examples for old wits from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

But while Fielding can be a dazzling social observer -- and she displays enough of her old wit to send readers flying through the first, better, half of "Olivia Joules" -- her prose is merely functional.

In any case, Ebert's speech was full of the same old wit and wisdom that he so affably spread when he was on television.

In the process, key designers and coders have departed, and much of Rare's old wit and charm has been lost.