Sentence examples for sharpness of wit from inspiring English sources

As much as the sharpness of wit and character, the brilliance of structure wins admiration.

Don't go on holiday without Lorrie Moore's Bark, short stories remarkable for their sharpness of wit and depth of feeling.

Almost forty years into his recording career, he has not only retained his sharpness of wit but has also learned to cut with greater skill.

The Greens lumbered themselves with too much policy, chose a leader who did not have the sharpness of wit to handle the details under pressure, and allowed their main message to be lost.

James's friends in London also became alert to how little his family actually knew about him, and how uneasy they might become at discovering in his letters what Anesko calls "his most distinctive qualities: his devastating sharpness of wit, his extravagant inventions of intimacy, his Rabelasian powers of innuendo".

A pixie, a changeling, she was admired for the sharpness of her wit.

"It's real people who distinguish themselves by the clarity of their thought and the sharpness of their wit".

The sharpness of her wit makes her commentary particularly painful to those who are on the receiving end.

If he occasionally goes in for cheap potshots at the world of boulangeries and carpal tunnel sufferers, he can be forgiven for the sincerity of his disgust and the sharpness of his wit.

Yet his career was not assured: Voltaire was outspoken and rash, and the sharpness of his wit and his desire to shine often led him to take a step too far in his mockery of the social élite, including royalty and the court.

This relentless gentility would risk serious tedium without that sharpness of eye and wit.