Sentence examples for wit in which from inspiring English sources

The profile also refers incorrectly to the play "Wit," in which Nixon is now starring on Broadway.

Above all, it is a sample of the dry wit in which Cunningham and his companion, John Cage, specialized.

She exists up until the last minutes of "Wit," in which Ms. Thompson and Mr. Nichols offer a glorious emotional meeting with her.

The play that made Albee famous, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," which opened in 1962 and is being revived on Broadway this month, is a carnival of wit in which George, a defeated middle-aged history professor, and his bitter, thwarted wife, Martha, use a young couple as foils for the dazzling cruelties they practice upon each other.

The repertoire offers many jokes of the aggressive, galumphing kind — the shenanigans in "Die Meistersinger," for example — but less of the sly sort of wit in which the comedian treats himself as flippantly as he treats the rest of the world.

Instead, they locked horns in a sophomoric battle of wits in which they tried - and overwhelmingly failed - to trip someone up with a question that put them in an awkward position, even if it meant focusing their questions on trivia or even scolding candidates for trying to put their answers in context.

Gaffes included getting a war veteran's name wrong and an interview wit Paloma Faith in which the singer plugged her latest recording and the pair mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag raised the ire of viewers.

It's plausible that stored N could ameliorate the effects of the putative 'self-destruct' hypothesis of Sinclair and De Wit (1975) in which they surmised leaf N remobilised to grain was responsible for inducing leaf senescence and hence reducing starch yield.

How do you hire? A. I put a very high premium on intelligence and a very high premium on wit in general, which is different from intelligence alone.

To wit: the story in which Tyson had his mother's body exhumed and reburied in a deluxe casket.

Working solely on colour, as affirmed and amended by form and structure, she produced relief sculptures of wit and verve, in which semi-representational images unintended at the outset - soaring angels, dipping boats, surging seas - appeared as if by magic.