Sentence examples for vernacular wit from inspiring English sources
More (1477-1535, canonized 1935), in addition to being a fine legal mind, an author, a philosopher, and a statesman, was a man of vigorous vernacular wit, whom C. S. Lewis called "our first great cockney humorist".
As with Wallace's "Infinite Jest," in "The Savage Detectives" Bolaño delivered a genuine epic inoculated against grandiosity by humane irony, vernacular wit and a hint of punk-rock self-effacement.
Over a shimmering, rattling musical background, it was a continuous spoken discourse aimed at some imaginary sad sack, crazy with old-fashioned mother-wit vernacular.
Like those Tin Pan Alley and Broadway greats, rappers are populist poets who tame slangy American vernacular speech into songs of brittle wit.
She builds her characters through dialogue; her vernacular is fast and full of period wit, in this case the unhinged 1970s.
The vernacular narrative, which had spark, specificity and rueful wit throughout the novel's opening chapters, becomes sloppy and gabbling, like a blog hastily banged out.
In Sketches of Southern Life (1872), a volume of poems based on her own travels among the freed people of the South, Harper created an effective counter to the popular white stereotype of the passive and incompetent ex-slave in the person of Aunt Chloe Fleet, whose wit and wisdom expressed in Southern folk vernacular evinced the literary potential of African American dialect writing.
At Gallery Luisotti, out of L.A., I discovered the brilliant septuagenarian German photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, whose images of Armenian bus shelters inject a wit and humanism into the conceptual approach to vernacular architecture pioneered by her better-known peers, Bernd and Hilla Becher.
He was reputed a wit, an ironist, delighting in ambiguity, both pious and scatological, at home equally with the vernacular and the rhetorical, with the Greek philosophers and the early church fathers.His political satire "Utopia" owed much to Plato's "Republic", a work which also inspired his ideas on female education.
