Competition is rampant although foreign companies face impediments and quick wits are essential for success.
But brevity, the soul of this book's wit, is an essential part of its charm; Rosenthal's previous studies of complex cultural figures — Lord Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts) and Nicholas Murray Butler (Columbia's president for nearly the entire first half of the twentieth century) — were longer and more academic.
In this role, Ms. Chlumsky has shown a knack for the verbal sparring and quick wit that are essential to the political universe created by Armando Iannucci.
To wit: the Patriot Act is mentioned eight times in the report, and the co-authors argue that the 2001 legislation is "essential" in America's counter-terrorism strategy.
"He said, 'I suppose when you go to the airport to welcome visitors, people won't know if they're being greeted or banned.' " This sort of wit was an essential part of Mr. Sinnott's makeup.
For Pope, rhyming couplets were the units of that essential eighteenth-century quality, wit: True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd, Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the notion of the mind.
The efforts to shorten the warm ischemic time (WIT), which is defined as the time from cardiac arrest to initiation of cooling in situ, or maintaining adequate renal blood flow during WIT by consistent chest compression are essential.
Irony, wit, satire, parody … these are essential for democracy to thrive, these are weapons that neuter malice".
Sometimes, the wit is unsettling.
