Sentence examples for wit derived from inspiring English sources
Serious, of course, compassionate at points, but lurking within its intelligence was something like humour, or wit, derived perhaps from its godly distance, which in turn reminded me of a novelist's omniscience.
He is also a subject in slash fan fiction, where he is named "Melpomaen", a rough, literal Elvish translation of "fig" and "wit," derived from melpo, the Quenya word for fruit (fig), and maen, the Noldorin word for clever or skilled.
The word witticism is derived from "wit" in its original sense of intelligence and acumen (as is Witz in German).
As a planet's mass can be derived from its gravitational force, de Wit reasoned that a planet's mass could be derived from its atmospheric temperature, pressure profile, and density — parameters that, in principle, may be obtained from a transmission spectrum.
Prime examples of what we now call Arte Povera's aesthetic of industrially derived materials bumping up against conceptual wit, these pieces are large-scale and elemental.
To prove that a planet's temperature, pressure profile, and atmospheric density may be derived independently from a transmission spectrum, de Wit had to demonstrate that each parameter has a distinctive effect on a transmission spectrum.
All of these visions, whether online, in printed form or derived verbally are designed to frighten the wits out of you.
Namely, these cartoons all derive their wit from flipping familiar ideas on their head.
Much of the vitality of Dmitri Shostakovich's early work is derived from a Stravinskian neo-Classicism permeated by a parodistic, and often deliberately banal, wit.
Meta-analyses were performed for the variables SNA, SNB, ANB, Wits appraisal, SN-ML and gonial angle, where data from five or more treated groups derived from the included studies contributed in the analysis.
It was derived from the name of a character in the prose romances Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) by the English author John Lyly.
