Sentence examples for sort of wit from inspiring English sources

The third series ended last month and was universally lauded for the sort of wit and wisdom that makes you laugh even as you despair.

"He said, 'I suppose when you go to the airport to welcome visitors, people won't know if they're being greeted or banned.' " This sort of wit was an essential part of Mr. Sinnott's makeup.

The repertoire offers many jokes of the aggressive, galumphing kind — the shenanigans in "Die Meistersinger," for example — but less of the sly sort of wit in which the comedian treats himself as flippantly as he treats the rest of the world.

The repertoire offers many jokes of the aggressive, galumphing kind the shenanigans in "Die Meistersinger," for example—but less of the sly sort of wit in which the comedian treats himself as flippantly as he treats the rest of the world.

It's "sort of Wit meets Amadeus" you say, in a movie-pitch kind of a way: Brandt is struggling to understand why Beethoven spent his latter years writing 33 variations to a pedestrian waltz theme by a forgotten Austrian music publisher.

She has a sort of wit like Woody Allen.

The interplay of the three men in the boat is often hilarious (think, for example, of the improvised-looking scene in which they drunkenly compare scars), and even the most shocking bits of carnage are so elegantly conceived that they have a sort of perverse wit.

In their place emerge individuals with genuine personalities and vulnerabilities and a capacity for poignancy, and this show suddenly takes on the sort of attitude, wit and emotion that it lacks in its longer first act, which relies on the comedy of superficial observation.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

I am clearest in my intention, and most satisfied that I am doing the right thing, when I am expressing in my writing an aspect of my inmost being, and doing so — I hope — with some sort of originality and wit.

"We are sort of at our wits' end to figure out how we can get through this to produce the kind of theater that our audiences are used to," Mr. Shields said.