Sentence examples for use of wit from inspiring English sources

Some aggressively witty individuals may take your use of wit in a conversation as an invitation to engage in a battle of wits.

First, he will be remembered as an excellent communicator; one who pioneered the use of wit and non-conventional platforms to win voters' affection and respect in an age of 24-hour news, a fragmenting media landscape and waning faith in (and deference towards) politicians.

The Hart House Debating Club employs a debating style that combines the American emphasis on analysis and the British use of wit.

For this I must stress the use of wits.

Unfortunately, each is played by a younger actor — not the one that we will follow for the rest of the film — and the confusion thus sown is calamitous, not least because the rest of the plot will require the unstinting use of your wits.

Joan is equally beaten down, and is being berated by Ken Cosgrove, of all people, even when she uses every bit of wit, charm, and business savvy to keep a client from leaving.

He was especially successful in criminal cases, where he made good use of his quick wit, his knowledge of human nature, and his forensic gifts.

Even though Austen wasn't out there smashing the system, her books are all about filtering a very patriarchial society through a female point view through the use of irony and wit.

This is because human robot cooperation can make full use of man's wit to make up for robot's poor intelligence, and we could complete work better.

In this sense, this paper accompanies the development of a proposed model that allows for systematic analysis in order to identify waste or contradictions and their elimination or reduction, through the joint use of analytical tools wit impact in eco-innovation based on TRIZ and Lean PSS.

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.