Sentence examples for pointed wit from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, it is in English (up to a point: the songs, half the show, are in Spanish, and the pointed wit of some colloquial expressions simply evaporates in another language).

Although she lacks the pointed wit of Banksy, Bambi's images are not all bland homages.

Here at The New Yorker (1975), a rich collection of anecdotes, photographs, and drawings recalling his years at the magazine, exhibits Gill's pointed wit and sparkling prose.

Educated, self-conscious, gifted with a pointed wit, by turns analytic, solemn and satirical, occasionally apocalyptic, he displays a passionate, mercurial intricacy of thought few composers manage to reconcile with the lyric properties of song.

If Ina Chaikovskaya does not have it all, she has more than most women in this ancient military town: brains and pluck, an apartment and a Zhiguli sedan bought with profits from her own business, a pointed wit.

"We women are the ones making our point of view and ideas clear to a very mixed audience," Ms. Marraccini said, noting the artistry of burlesque with its pointed humor, glamour and wit and the basics of a strip club: "Stripping is a service.

This is The Hunger Games as pointed political procedural, detailing with some wit the tactical reconstruction of Katniss as a revolutionary figurehead by outside parties – notably spin doctor Plutarch Heavensbee, played by a quietly benevolent Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Point to its pointed teeth.

Whether linking Cold War nuclear dread to the dystopian dreams of Philip K. Dick, or showing how 20th-century American culture has used science fiction's aliens as sublimated stand-ins for various threatening "others" (They're Communists! They're intellectuals! Let's get 'em!), Disch combines wit and scholarship with a pointed critical impulse.

It was all there, under the loose but focused direction of Jon Favreau, who pushed the casting of Downey -- now the world's biggest movie star but then still recovering from a notorious spate of self-defeating behaviors -- the optimism, the insouciant cool, the wit and humor, the streaks of darkness, the sometimes pointed social commentary.

By The New Yorker February 28 , 2012Todd Snider has been on a prolonged winning streak since "East Nashville Skyline," from 2004, in which he found the perfect balance between wit and philosophy, delivering a set of songs that included everything from shaggy-dog musings to more pointed political and personal explorations.