Sentence examples similar to reserved wit from inspiring English sources

Compact and slender, no more than 5-foot-8 and 140 pounds, Reeves was a man of reserved nature but wry wit.

What I loved about Our Ladies is that the girls' misadventures were told with the breathlessness and quick wit usually reserved for the back of the school bus.

Her cutting wit was not reserved only for Muslims, however.

But she reserved her choicest words of wit for her sister Cassandra.

Courteous but reserved, he has an acerbic wit and a lapidary precision when it comes to his work.

Generally reserved in conversation, Hollenbeck's wit comes forward in wryly sharing experiences at last year's Grammys (he never found the red carpet) or joining the Internet's chorus of year-end lists with a straight-faced "Best Toilets of 2010" photo essay on a blog hosted by the Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson.

As Gypsy, the piquant Laura Benanti is revealed in all her statuesque aplomb; her body is showstopping, but, as with Gypsy Rose Lee herself, what makes the whole package work is Benanti's alluring combination of reserve and wit.

She's reserved and steely, but without the wit to clinch the comedy of her religious hypocrisy.

Beneath his somewhat reserved manner, he had a great love of wit and humour, puns and paradoxes.

I know her media persona is quite reserved, but she's got quite a quiet wit about her.

Mr. Zobel has the talent, even the wit, to put chicken livers in the appetizer slot normally reserved for seared foie gras.