Sentence examples for too much wit from inspiring English sources

Also a byproduct of too much wit: neuroticism.

The list of comic characters in the Tractatus is closely related to a passage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, in which the boaster (the person who says more than the truth) is compared with the mock-modest man (the person who says less), and the buffoon (who has too much wit) is contrasted with the boor (who has too little).

The commissioners, he said, "must, nevertheless, have the hardihood to brave the sneers and sarcasm of men who, with too much pride to study, too much wit to think, undervalue what they do not understand, and condemn what they do not comprehend".

There is much wit, too, in the color work of Lars Tunbjork, also Swedish, a photographer for a couple of Stockholm journals.

Despite the deeper subtexts, the sinewy show is never weighed down by self-importance or pompousness: "Banshee" possesses too much self-awareness and wit to ever become a slog.

On the other hand, the texts presented him are too simple-minded to sustain much wit.

There was far too much variety, self-deprecation and wit – qualities that made the ceremony all the more British.

Mr. Bennett is too much the rude boy and wit to settle for mere academic engagement with a play that is possibly this author's most truly playful offering since "Habeas Corpus" some three decades or more ago.

Mr. Lillis's main concern seems to be getting through the tangle of characters and plot lines with a smattering of wit and without too much confusion.

At a brisk 90 minutes "Von Macramé" would be a loopy goof, but the show's fabric has a little too much stretch (and not enough real wit), and it palls long before the bloody finale arrives after more than two hours.

For me, Burton reads Murakami, whose tone is a miracle of understated strangeness and dry wit, with a bit too much Burtonian flair.