Sentence examples for wit lines from inspiring English sources

Repetition becomes a form of wit: lines from a porn movie the kids watch, or from a bit of overheard phone sex, get recycled as dialogue, reverberating uneasily in the air.

This production-line wit may raise the odd smile, but it's a pale substitute for satire.

Lyrically, it can err on the side of laziness (witness the blatant Beatles steal of "While I'm away I write home every day" in the single "Relator"), but there are flashes of wit (see the line "Here I go again, late for another passing train", which I take to be a subtle contemplation of suicidal thoughts).

Philip Pullman, author and president of the Blake Society, said: "William Blake was a complete original: his power, his tenderness, his wit, his graphic line are like no one else's, and it's good to remind people ever so often about his colossal imagination and his moral vision, which are just as potent now after two hundred years as they were when he brought them into the world".

To wit, this recent line from the Right Scoop blog post: "Obama has basically hung an 'Illegals Welcome' sign over American's proverbial doorpost with his amnesty policies".

The plot is perfunctory, the violence gruesomely gross -- but there's nothing with even a scintilla of the wit of a line like "Machete don't text".

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Instead, the music, which is scored for an orchestra of just over 20 players heavily weighted toward winds, strives to match the words, line for line, in wit and lightheartedness, and if the result is sometimes rather slight, so be it.