Emma occupies a special place in this list because it is supremely English – in character, landscape, sensibility and wit.
Mr. Salzman recounts with sensibility and wit the daily struggle of a community of human beings to accept unsparing material and social deprivations for the sake of a spiritual reward that often seems agonizingly impalpable.
Austen's reassuring brand of sense and sensibility, grounded in wit and sound moral judgment, is another attraction.
With delicate comedy, exquisite sensibility, and calm wit, Suleiman evokes anger, regret, and frustration; the cause of this bilious build-up is manifestly political, but he doesn't express it in political terms.
Barnes combined unconventional dramatic sensibilities and extravagant wit with an appreciation of earlier playwrights such as Frank Wedekind, Ben Jonson, and Georges Feydeau.
In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Marit is remembered fondly for her comic sensibilities and quick wit.
Isabelle makes for a charismatic heroine, forceful and funny, while the Soskas indulge their fetish-inflected sensibilities with real wit and verve.
Later she developed a language in which technical demands and a slightly acerbic sensibility were balanced by wit and lyricism.
By the time his series detective, Zoë Boehm, comes on the scene, we already know that Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit.
PAGE A17 OBITUARIES DIGBY WOLFE, 82 A writer and actor whose acerbic wit, absurdist sensibility and political edge helped shape "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," televisedised comedy that captured the tumultuousness of the 1960s.
