Sentence examples for this kind of wit from inspiring English sources

When one thinks of a phrase from Bellow, it almost always has this kind of wit, and of course it is a metaphysical wit in the way that Donne or Shakespeare is: a metaphorical liveliness, yoking together apparent incompatibles.

This is the kind of wit and poetry and surprise that Twist routinely produces.

They both radiate the kind of wit and joy (and, yes, hope) that can come only with self-confidence and a comfort in their own skins.

"The Sopranos" lowered the limits on violence, sex and profanity, and also lifted viewers' expectations, offering the kind of wit, psychological insight and cinematic style that until then had seemed the preserve of art films.

To take a big, bewildering concept and treat it as a small, scuffed item of everyday use demands the kind of wit — literate and levelling — with which recent movies have all but dispensed.

Instead, with the kind of wit not normally associated with Islamic fundamentalists, the new regime renamed the road it stands on "Bobby Sands Street", meaning its letterhead would be a memorial to the IRA hunger-striker.

The mini-series, set in the fictional cathedral town, centres on the lives of the local clergy and gentry and provides all kinds of innocuous satire, the kind of wit that sees Rev Slope remark upon greeting the Bold family: "Mrs Bold, Miss Bold and young master Bold.

Celtic need more of that kind of wit and imagination.

"They made incredible romantic comedies in the 40s and 50s, but I think we've lost that kind of wit".

I love Noël Coward and that kind of wit and timing, and I love old movies that have that kind of banter.

They don't display the kind of wits a viewer might hope to match.