Sentence examples for playful wit from inspiring English sources

All who knew him admired him for his integrity, honesty and playful wit.

But she is demure, without the playful wit or drastic contrasts of scale to illumine the climactic "Theme et Variations".

(Scott) ★ 'Lincoln' (PG-13, 2 29) Daniel Day-Lewis plays the Great Emancipator with playful wit as well as gravity.

Herb's keen mind, playful wit and gentle heart never wavered, and neither will our memory of him.

(Holden) ★ 'Lincoln' (PG-13, 2 29) Daniel Day-Lewis plays the Great Emancipator with playful wit as well as gravity.

As opposed to the harshness of Lucilius, Horace opts for mild mockery and playful wit as the means most effective for his ends.

In the 1976 BBC production in the collection, these playful wits (Alec McCowen and Ms. Keith) are presented in striking contrast to their new spouses, who epitomize bourgeois literal-mindedness.

Fortunately, he also has a natty sense of visual style and a playful, dry wit.

This pioneering Conceptualist's elliptical cerebralism can be daunting, but he has a natty sense of visual style and a playful, dry wit.

The id and the intellect, then: the octopus gives Mr. DiBenedetto's painting its sensuous, instinctual flow; the Ferris wheel its playful formal wit.

To her, shifting erotic desire is the inspiration for shifting human identity and for the playful exercise of wit.