Sentence examples for pungent wit from inspiring English sources
Bette Midler, in "The Rose" (1979), brought her mixture of pungent wit and emotional vitality to the role of a self-destructive genius — Janis Joplin in all but name.
The playwrights Edward Albee and Romulus Linney, the actors Robert Duvall and Harris Yulin, and Foote's children were among those who recalled his pungent wit and wry humor, his stubbornness and his courtly gentleness.
An egoist of ebullient nature, pungent wit, and strong opinions, Lucilius used the satiric form for self-expression, fearlessly criticizing public as well as private conduct and displaying the originality of his genius by using themes of daily life: politics, social life, luxury, marriage, business, and travel.
A professional travel writer and amateur eccentric, Ms. Jones writes with pungent observation and wit.
The wit, pungent and streetwise on the page, gets an added charge from the author's keyed-up vocal style and distinct New Jersey accent.
A remarkable body of work, it is architectural criticism at its most compelling: pungent, but full of wit and humour, a bravura performance.
No one writes with a keener wit or more pungent style.
Mr. Letts's gift for writing pungent characters may in part explain the wit and authority with which he channels the voice of one of the 20th-century theater's most famous wordsmiths.
And when it gets on a roll, it's a movie with more wit to its lines and a more pungent array of them than much of the mishmash that has passed as Bette Midler's Greatest Movie Hits.
Professor Craig Wright: Pungent.
