She captures the duality of a character whose wits are sharpened by passion yet who, when briefly abandoned by her beloved Orlando, gazes after him with the bereft sadness of a stricken doe.
"Is there a future for a clergyman whose wits are duller than those of his parishioners?" he asks about Henry, William's devout brother, whose interest in prostitution is no doubt part of his desire to stamp out sin.
STAFFERS (singing) Who puts the "super" in superintendent Who barred banking fraud from expansion Whose wits are profound and whose grace is renowned Every time that she graces the mansion?
Still fewer have two or three, but this is what has happened to the Captain Scott Invitation XI, a wandering club formed by a gang of 1980s Oxford undergraduates whose wits were a lot sharper than their skills.
Scientists whose wits were sharpened by the pep pills they took in the small hours of the morning still get credit for their discoveries.
The Jubilee line, so often associated with capitalism and the Docklands development, is a good match for John O'Farrell, a writer whose wit was marinated in the political 1980s.
In polemics like "After Strange Gods" and "The Idea of a Christian Society", Eliot elaborated his belief that Jews had no place in modern life.Enter Groucho, whose wit was as uniquely Jewish as it was universally comic.
We're looking for a critic whose wit is as sharp as their pencil - someone who is entertaining, knowing and authoritative, avoids clichés and provides a fresh and illuminating perspective on their chosen topic.
'I learned to ski at Cairngorm Mountain, which you once described in a movie as the worst skiing in the world.' 'And now you've skied the best,' came the retort, from a man whose wit is as quick fire as ever, even in his 80s.
But in the days before dumbing down and cultural studies no one reviewed Enid Blyton or Georgette Heyer -- as they do not now review the great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody as opposed to derivative manipulation of past motifs, who deals with death with startling originality.
An icon of the baby-boom generation, Barbra Streisand, teams up with the free-spirited shlub-star of the Millenials, Seth Rogen, in The Guilt Trip, a movie whose wit is never as sharp as its heart is warm.
