Sentence examples for other wits from inspiring English sources
About this time Benchley, Parker, and other wits of the Algonquin Round Table which its members referred to as the Vicious Circle began their celebrated lunchtime meetings at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel.
But the inimitable Daumier (who could be benevolent, as shown here in a series devoted to Parisian pursuits in the summer) tops the other wits here in his testy renditions of women with literary ambitions.
And neither were most of the other wits charged with offering a much-needed comic counterpoint, or at least some comic relief, to the often oppressive triumphalism of the war weeks.
Neil and a couple other wits dominated the conversation, which the rest of us, I think, were both annoyed by and grateful for.
And then, suddenly, for an "un-named" crime like "Elderly Nun Raped in India" where the religion of the criminals was somehow deemed not nameable (Hindus didn't do it), some other wit contrives a headline like "India Nun Rape is Part of Christian Culture Says Hindu Nationalist Leader".
"What did I do that was worthy?" he asked sadly; he had been, he thought, a "whetstone, itself incapable of cutting", but vital in sharpening others' wits.
The two modes often intertwine, each creeping lushly into the other: humor and wit leaven the more political novels, while acute social observations deepen the lighter ones.
There were 18 projects featured - as best as I could count - some of them with long lines and anxious wait lists, others wit project creators with their Vive headgear awaiting willing explorers.
From the Restoration to the Victorian era, these playwrights and many other "female wits," as one critic called them, survived criticism, ridicule and even sabotage to become a familiar presence on the English stage.
After he shot that scene, he says, he called the director Alan Rudolph, who had written a script with Randy Sue Coburn about Dorothy Parker and the other legendary wits of the Algonquin Round Table.
One was broadcast humor, the other political wit.
