Yet Aubrey goes on to praise her wit, learning and generous patronage, leaving us with the impression that she was rather splendid.
Earle's wit, learning, and tolerance were widely praised, and, though a Royalist Anglican, he tried to conciliate Nonconformists.
If more national television debates take place, which seems quite likely, he will have more opportunities to display his wit and learning.
Devotees of Mr. Sorkin's television series will be able to discern the author's signature in the new play, namely the kind of dialogue that presumes both the performers and the audience can handle ideas, shrewdness, irony, wit and learning.
That a new ruler bled the land he had conquered was not surprising; that he had the honesty to admit it, and the wit to learn from it, is.Though Kabul was not rich in grain, it was a cosmopolitan city Babur reckoned that 11 or 12 languages were spoken on the trade route between Central Asia and India.
Judging With Wit and Intellect After learning that he had bone marrow cancer six years ago at age 75, David Shea, a retired state Supreme Court Justice, took his wife, Rosemary, through the Canadian Rockies hiking by helicopter.
But the relocation of the house is only one piece of this extraordinarily rich documentary, which takes up the agonies and ironies of Southern history with remarkable wit, empathy and learning.
Living by her wits, Ms. Brown learned to game the system.
Living by her wits, she learned to deflect questions about her father's sexuality.
Many Chinese firms would cease to exist, though a few, forced to live on their wits, might learn to innovate, and flourish.
And, as with most wits, we learn through Hwang's distanced eye, and through his sometimes distanced but ultimately color-blind heart.
