Sentence examples for wits that from inspiring English sources

Zuleika Dobson is a brilliant Edwardian satire on Oxford life by one of English literature's most glittering wits that now reads as something much darker and more compelling.

"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great," by longtime National Lampoon artist Rick Meyerowitz, chronicles the history of the magazine through the wits that filled the publication over the years.

Early in the 1920s she had been one of the founders of the famous Algonquin Round Table at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan and was by no means the least of a group of dazzling wits that included Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, and James Thurber.

Will's plays were Screens of a high order, all to invoke the wisdom and wits that got us to this point.

Before we knew it, he was joking around with us and our banter sped into a battle of wits that couldn't be stopped.

Unlike his wits, that assurance did not seem to desert him in the years to come.

In her eight days on the witness stand, Mrs. Harris was able to describe her betrayal with an arch wit that charmed the courtroom.

He was always courteous and had a dry wit that was very appealing.

He observes sharply and with a dry donnish wit that deserves greater play.

There are dull stabs at verbal wit that leave you baffled, bored or slightly grossed out.

It's a wit that carries through to the musical arrangements, too.