Sentence examples for wits about the from inspiring English sources

(Who would guess that a household, no less than a city, can be a melting pot?) His father and Oliver enjoy a clash of wits about the twisted root of the word "apricot," tracing it through Arabic, Latin, and Greek, and mentioning that one branch leads to the word "precocious" — a nod to Elio, who listens to them with half a smile.

Asked recently about a proposal to redesign the giant Elephant and Castle roundabout, the mayor responded that "if you keep your wits about you", the intersection is "perfectly negotiable".

The drawings display a consummate awareness and even wit about the drawing process itself.

As for Bulgakov's wit, about the only humor to survive in this staging are the lowest of bosom and rump gags.

David wrote with biting wit about the inevitability of death and the futility of positive thinking — the "warning" sticker on "Half Empty" reads: "No inspirational life lessons will be found here" — but he lived a remarkably inspired life.

Dubbed the "feminist with a funny bone", Ephron speaks with native directness, candour and wit about the challenges of forging a career in traditionally male-dominated milieus, alongside childhood, ageing and the best way to cook a turkey.

Gregory, who was classically trained and whose mother, the dedicatee, was a Covent Garden opera chorus member, has a fluent style – luscious, tonal and Moog-rich – and a gentle wit about the tics and tropes of opera.

Though Banksy's public pieces – ripped from walls in England and California –have recently gone to the auction block for millions, this project shows that Banksy has lost none of his playfulness or wit about the place of street art in the global cultural marketplace.

She writes with great sympathy and quiet wit about the mixture of empiricism, magic and popular lore in the manuals, and tells the story of the way they were superseded by the apparently more scientific works on horticulture produced under the influence of Bacon and Hartlib.

Meanwhile, Begley has written a richly nuanced concoction, cut by a lethally dry wit, about the way we live now as reflected in the distorting fun-house mirror of the way we lived then, in that Eloise-at-the-Plaza moment when everyone stayed on his side of the class divide.

4. Jeff Who Lives at Home: Bringing together Jason Segel, Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon, Jay and Mark Duplass crafted a comedy filled with heart and wit about the curses and blessings of family.