Sentence examples for semblance of wit from inspiring English sources
Viewers looking for some semblance of wit or cleverness find a crop of stock phrases and standard gestures.
Ms. Steel's brand of romance (with characters named Pip, Ophélie and Mousse, this last one admittedly a dog) lacks any semblance of wit or sass.
Having said that, though, it's the exception that proves the rule, containing as it does a semblance of wit and a hoary old pun, two essential ingredients of any great modern headline.
Improve your sense of wit.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Throughout the production Mr. Langella's Nixon has come across as a man of quick intellect, maudlin sentimentality, vulgar wit and studied social reflexes that have never acquired the semblance of natural grace.
Over time, a semblance of normalcy returned.
A semblance of normal life has returned.
A semblance of political comedy.
Some semblance of spring had momentarily arrived.
From begging for some semblance of justice?
