I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed...
Though little appreciated upon its appearance, Leaves of Grass was warmly praised by the poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote to Whitman on receiving the poems that it was "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom" America had yet contributed.
There may break out, at any time, a sudden burst of joyous laughter, a long stream of excited chatter, a flash of street swagger and savvy, a swift slash of sarcasm, a gracefully understated piece of wit, or a coolly self-deprecatory remark — followed by laughter.
The fantastic creature is actually a lavish piece of jackalope wit: a spiral-contoured narwhal tusk grafted neatly to a horse head.
While some of the tales are explicitly angry or bitter, others are ironically detached, and still others make their point with a piece of sly wit, one of these being "The Pride of the Garbage," in which a bag loaded with garbage, in its vainglory, is satisfied only if it is placed on the very top of the heap of bags bound for the dump.
Liberal and politically active Michele wanted to know what missing piece of my wits might lead me to think that Ted Olson would ever support same-sex marriage.
"Hylozoic," the second premiere, marks the choreographic debut of Norwood Pennewell, a longtime company member, who has peppered a basically lyrical piece with moments of wit that express the underlying optimism so important to this troupe.
What a superb piece that is! Full of wit and fun, but also intensely poignant and moving, with fantastic orchestration and superb ensemble writing.
This is a music of wit and reference, and in pieces like "Sweet Lorraine" and "Solar," both Mr. Barron and Mr. Drummond threw in scraps of other tunes.
It's an amusing piece of dance-theater, full of satirical wit, and, best of all, it features two splendid performers: Ms. Noël, who is from Haiti and now lives in Mali, and Ms. Xaba, a South African.
Fusing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the Duchampian tradition of the readymade, Therrien constructs a doppelganger from an everyday piece of furniture, both displaying his visual wit and actualizing literary or imaginative fantasy in three-dimensional space".— Ed Schad.
