Sentence examples for with a dry wit from inspiring English sources

Friends and colleagues remembered Cross as a consummate gentleman, with a dry wit and varied interests.

Mr. Laue is an intriguing subject, smart, affable and with a dry wit.

Rubin, shy and unassuming with a dry wit, does not mind being out of the spotlight.

She embraced life, and endured its setbacks stoically and with a dry wit.

He was also a man with a dry wit who never took himself too seriously.

With a dry wit and earthy physicality, Ms. O'Connell attacks her role with an inventive, hotblooded authority.

Hynde writes much like she speaks: with sharpness, a dry wit and her bullshit-ometer set to high.

They included Alison, a fashion model with slim hips and a dry wit; Eric, an angel-faced motorcycle racer with a long blond ponytail; Chris, a round-faced bicycle salesman who admitted to "a profound fear of heights"; and Jon, a film-prop builder with the poise of a ballet dancer, a tiny steel barbell through his left eyebrow, and a powerful physique.

With a glossy grin, a dry wit and bags of affable Irish-American charm, Barclays' chief executive, Bob Diamond, is a difficult man to discombobulate.

With a light touch, a dry wit, and vast sympathy, he sketches the local ways of birth, death, health, work, art, law, and love — and suggests their painfully frustrating dependence on bureaucratic levers pulled half a world away.

It's one of the many sequences in the film that reflects the sure, sharp touch of the editor Adam Sekuler, who works with Devor to bring a dry wit to the film's analytical, intellectually incisive montage.