Besides devising intricate puzzles for his sharp-witted gentleman sleuth, Bruce creates characters whose mangling of the queen's English adds life and laughter to their functional roles.
One hotel doorman described them as "nice, sharp-witted, entertaining young men.
Thomas Jefferson obsesses over finding an American mammoth; a "sharp-witted hippie" ignites a worldwide movement to save the whales; a man lives in a cage and learns to dance with a whooping crane.
"I have a theory that men love with their eyes, but women love with their ears," said the sharp-witted Zsa Zsa Gabor, remarking profoundly on the science of attraction, having also certainly eared up a few husbands in her time.
"Is this safe?" the man asks, as he guardedly takes a seat on a packing crate in the first act of "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris's sharp-witted, sharp-toothed comedy of American uneasiness.
Both pieces are sharp-witted, funny and lively.
This spry, sharp-witted documentary couldn't be more timely.
He is sharp-witted but cannot make her euro policies his main line of attack.
Incisive and sharp-witted, Ms. Dunn acts as a sounding board for Mr. Obama and his campaign.
They are party people – gregarious, outgoing, very entrepreneurial, sharp-witted, loud, meat-eaters.
Both are formidably sharp-witted and mediagenic; they are also capable of extraordinary displays of fealty.
