Sentence examples for true wit from inspiring English sources

He called Mr. Sahl "a true wit and a comic genius".

As we were discussing earlier, we're living in a culture where cynicism has replaced intelligence, true wit.

"True wit is nature to advantage dressed," I suggest, "What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed".

And Grandma's House, in which Simon Amstell plays a successful TV presenter turned struggling actor, "Simon", proved that there is life still left in the genre when it's done with true wit and originality – and with a talented cast.

As his loving but suspicious wife, Ms. Leavel brings a cabaret artist's stylishness and humor to "The Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone Blues," the show's high point in true wit.

For Pope, rhyming couplets were the units of that essential eighteenth-century quality, wit: True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd, Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the notion of the mind.

It had been a cold, dank morning, there was no one around, and this was one of the true wits of our time.

Wit was opposed to true "humor," which was congenial and full of "fellow feeling".

The result is dotted with specks of true visual wit: the townsfolk who are scooped off the ground, say, and abducted by U.F.O.s on the end of swinging chains, remind you of frisky steers being roped and rounded up.

And it's true that this "Wit" is often broadly funny in a way I hadn't remembered.

She calls Mr. Simpson one of the "true visionaries," whose wit and genius for color and balance never fails to move people.