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It may sound innocuous, but it is a marvel of twisted wit, divided into several subjects, including "the Bleat," a Monday-through-Friday blog he began writing in 1997.

The film's visual audacity and twisted wit can be amusing, if you're in a certain mood -- but it's a mood you wouldn't want to find yourself in too frequently.

Watts brings a twisted wit and tightly controlled visual style to what's ostensibly one long chase scene, although the movie's biggest strength is the realistic kid dialogue, well delivered by James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford. Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford

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Thanks to his twisted imagination and wit, he was able to soar above modish trashiness and establish himself as a subversive artist--a painstakingly meticulous craftsman who was also a latter-day Surrealist, as disquieting in his was as Hans Bellmer.

More often, he makes joyous and strange analogies, stretching his similes into twisted lengths of elastic wit.

(Who would guess that a household, no less than a city, can be a melting pot?) His father and Oliver enjoy a clash of wits about the twisted root of the word "apricot," tracing it through Arabic, Latin, and Greek, and mentioning that one branch leads to the word "precocious" — a nod to Elio, who listens to them with half a smile.

It's a band vivid with shades of musicality that are not often ventured into by many, chock-full of a sharp-wit dark and twisted sensibilities which paint a bright picture in your mind.

MC · Donmar Warehouse, WC2, Thu 5 to Aug 2 The Terrible Infants On tour The pleasure of these enjoyably twisted nursery tales is in the inventiveness and sly wit with which they are staged.

Her father, she reports, probably interpreted her twisted newborn state "as God's Christmas bonus to one of His worthier employees". Adah's wit bristles throughout this novel; it is wit of a kind that Leah, a tomboy who eagerly seeks her father's approval, would never use.

(Dargis)20110602 'Hanna' (PG-13, 1 51) Saoirse Ronan plays a girl raised by wolves (well, Eric Bana) who matches wits and weapons against a wicked queen (Cate Blanchett as a C.I.A. operative) in a twisted modern fairy tale directed by Joe Wright.

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