Sentence examples for secret wit from inspiring English sources

She's the perfect girl in class: prim but popular, modest in manners but beloved by others, possessed of a secret wit.

By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn November 20, 2009 She's the perfect girl in class: prim but popular, modest in manners but beloved by others, possessed of a secret wit.

More beguilingly, Mr. Brinkley, who died on Wednesday night at the age of 82, had the grace to let the viewer in on this secret with open wit and almost no broadcast bombast.

Novelist, poet, trusted with our secrets, her wisdom and wit sustained us all.

Pulp's Common People This year's unofficial Glastonbury anthem by the ultimate hip-gyrating, wit-bantering secret guests.

The cold war made a brief comeback in a trial that seemed intended to show that Russia still has secrets worth stealing, to wit: a rocket-propelled torpedo system called the Squall that Russia would like to sell to foreign navies.

Ellen was known for her biting wit, her almost secret abhorrence of fools, and her open honesty, tempered only by professional circumstance.

Her dark, liquid outpouring of piety in "A Nun Takes the Veil" was countered by the devilish wit of "The Secrets of the Old".

Was this a specimen of local wit, or some deep secret of Southern cuisine?

Ms. Zeta-Jones is as spirited and lovely as ever, but the movie is content to use her for her looks rather than for the arch, self-mocking wit that is her secret weapon as a comic actress.

But even as we continue to steal each other's secrets, it should not be beyond the wit of spooks, when national interests coincide, to exchange secrets about a common enemy.