Sentence examples for wits like from inspiring English sources

Instead of another round of debates, how about a "battle of wits" like in "The Princess Bride," in which one of two wine glasses is laced with deadly iocaine powder by a neutral observer (say, Jim Lehrer) and then we find out "who is right and who is dead"?

It's the sort of move that today makes "patriots" hurl the label "un-American" at wits like Jon Stewart.

He added: "We were scared out of our wits, like everyone else, but after talking with him, everything seems OK.

"We were scared out of our wits, like everyone else, but after talking with him everything seems OK," Portal said.

Here, against Clooney's Bingham, she wields her wits like knives, but there's such grace in the wielding, and she makes so free with her desires, that you can feel him — and the audience — yearning to know more.

Others said that liberals just can't be funny (the left has no wits like Limbaugh and Liddy, either), while the blogger Antic Muse said there are funny liberals, but they're working in Hollywood.

Bernard-Henri Lévy (also known as BHL), though less noted for his wit, likes to play up to his reputation as a comic figure, popping up here, there and everywhere in his fine white shirts, opened halfway down his chest, holding forth on everything from Jean-Paul Sartre to jihad in Pakistan, and generally acting out the role, in a somewhat theatrical fashion, of the great Parisian Intellectual.

"The village wits... liked to stand with their backs to our stove and challenge opinion concerning Holmes and Poe, Irving and Macaulay, Pope and Byron, Dickens and Shakespeare".

Another story for tonight: Donald Trump has just scolded Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish — to wit, "I like Jeb.

He has a wicked wit ("I like a peasant soup as much as the next college graduate") and a way with a story.

I can't fight wit like that, Lynton.