Sentence examples for using wit from inspiring English sources
I think there's a history of senators in very appropriate ways using wit and humor to their advantage, in advancing and advocating for things.
Hunters are supposed to stalk an animal using wit and woodcraft, says Tim Brass of the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Association.
The Ashes: Test Match Special (Radio 5 Live Sports Extra) | iPlayer Disabled and Desperate to Work (5 Live) | iPlayer The Manuscript (Absolute Radio) | Listen Banter – "bants" – is a young man's game, involving competition for ladies' attention using wit and repartee, occasionally progressing to downing seven pints and then doing the caterpillar for the entire length of the bar.
Both this and "An Immaculate Misconception" wear their scholarship lightly, using wit and humour to smuggle in serious scientific ideas.Neither play, though, creates as memorable a character as Dr Benedict Lambert, the sardonic and vulnerable dwarf geneticist who is the hero of "Mendel's Dwarf", Simon Mawer's 1997 novel of love, science and circus freaks.
Mr. Willimon said his "Parisian Woman" was not a direct adaptation of Becque's biting comedy of manners but rather inspired by it: His play revolves around a Washington power couple and centers on the wife, an expert at using wit and sexuality for her own ends (including an extramarital affair she is pursuing).
Using wit and dry humor, Old Spice catapulted a stodgy old brand from obscurity to a new level of cool.
The new agencies used wit and imagination rather than bullying hard sell".
Like Nichols, she used wit as a pesticide, and her juicy good looks were a particularly disconcerting contrast to her sharp tongue.
"He has been able to use wit — or mockery, or impersonation, or irony — to try to govern every disastrous situation he is in".
As long as Franken is — and I think he will be — appropriate in however he uses wit, I'm sure it will be fine and well accepted.
Irving Rudd, a Runyonesque character who used wit and gimmickry to promote the Brooklyn Dodgers, Yonkers Raceway, Nathan's Famous and boxers like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, died on Friday.
