Sentence examples for wit as a from inspiring English sources

It uses English wit as a selling point.

And she used her wit as a weapon to keep executives and unruly clients in line.

He uses his wit as a cattleprod, pushing for answers to his most persistent questions.

The seriousness is tempered, however, with an urbane and entertaining wit, as a skip through 69 Love Songs attests.

Gemma was lovely and professional and funny – she has great wit as a performer and as woman.

Stone brings real warmth to Olive, who deploys smart-alec wit as a defence against the vicissitudes of high school.

In the 1990s Mary Cleere Haran, a great wit as well as an excellent singer in the '40s big-band tradition, triumphed at the club with her loving deconstructions of vintage cultural totems.

In 1953 Jim married Elizabeth Romeyn, an American-born woman of sunny charm, and with a wit as delicate as his own, whom he met in Goldfinger's office.

She has the cheek of Vivienne Westwood with the expressionist flair of the new romantics – and a wit as sharp as her needle.

Marian Adams, original name Marian Hooper, byname Clover, (born September 13 , 1843 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. died December 6, 1885, Washington, D.C ., American social arbiter who was widely acknowledged for her wit, as an accomplished photographer in the early 1880s, and as the wife of historian Henry Adams.

The text by Margaret Edson simply isn't very interesting -- the general conceit of wit as an insight into Donne or life in general simply doesn't flower here.