Viceregal courts outdid the Spanish court in pomposity, constantly providing ample targets for their poets to exercise satirical wit.
Satirical wit can be hard hitting.
She points out that he shares many of Stone's journalistic qualities, including his satirical wit.
He wrote with great technical skill, erudition, and a strong satirical wit.
His black humour and satirical wit are cultural as well as personal traits.
comique-the operatic genre performed at this theater-had once been vivacious, exploiting a variety of approaches to form, and teeming with satirical wit.
With this long-awaited translation, English-language readers can immerse themselves in the invention and satirical wit of one of the world's great literary cosmopolitans.
From the satirical wit of "The Player" (both novel and screenplay), he has moved ever more corrosively beyond the pale.
In any case, it's the public Cobbett that interests Ingrams, a man whose satirical wit and anti-establishment ethos might have inspired the creation of Private Eye.
Among his roles were those of poet, satirical wit, drinker, naval hero, duellist, kidnapper, philanderer, brothel-haunter, patron of the theatre, pornographer and public nuisance.
The author's familiarity with his locale, conversational idiom and satirical wit (sparing no-one, storytellers included) make the collection a piquant mid-winter read.
