The refugees survived through the wits of the manager, a Hutu, whose wife Tatiana, played in the film by British actress Sophie Okonedo, was a Tutsi.
"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great," by longtime National Lampoon artist Rick Meyerowitz, chronicles the history of the magazine through the wits that filled the publication over the years.
How the great choreographer found, through memoir, the wit and dignity that the ballet world denied.
It's something like a gloss or a capsule version of such fleshed-out tales, shot through with the wit of weary self-awareness, but still more skit than story.
In a prose narrative, Sedaris can keep a reader engaged through the knuckleball wit of his observations (the tone of which Alvarez hasn't much success in translating onto the screen).
At least the local authorities had the wit to swerve midway through the competition.
Dylan brought together the amplified beat of rock and roll, the star imagery of pop, the historical and political sensibility of folk, and through the wit, ambition, and obscurity of his lyrics the arrogance of urban bohemia.
Her writing was lucid and sharply observed, its plain language shot through with wit and unexpected poetry.
And so he seeks to disarm his questioners through filibuster, wit and the feint of an invitation into the exculpatory wonders of his confidence.
Rather, imagination is displayed in nonfictional prose in the fanciful invention of decorative details, in digressions practiced as an art and assuming a character of pleasant nonchalance, in establishing a familiar contact with the reader through wit and humour.
