Sentence examples for witticism from inspiring English sources

He jokes that he was "a pre-existing condition"—the kind of witticism that comes naturally to a health-care wonk.Mr Jindal is obviously brainy: he was running Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals, an agency with 13,000 staff, at the age of 24.

It has been the advertising industry's favourite witticism ever since.

Saadeddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian, was inspired to merge the Arabic words for republic (gumhuriya) and kingdom (mamlaka) into gumlukiya.Mr Ibrahim, who was recently jailed by an Egyptian court for seven years, thinks the witticism may be one cause of his troubles.

The proper response to a compliment is explicit gratitude, not a cynical, shrugging witticism.

He did, however, leave lots of descendants.Naming fossils is a game that beautifully illustrates Henry Kissinger's witticism about academic disputes being so bitter because the stakes are so low.

And, with his precise business mind, he expounded a witticism that has ever since seemed like an economic law: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted," he said.

Unlike its characters, real mafiosi are just as likely to be podgy and their women plain, and to have never uttered a witticism in their lives.

The word witticism is derived from "wit" in its original sense of intelligence and acumen (as is Witz in German).

He was cool to Chekhov's drama, however, and, in a celebrated witticism, once told Chekhov that his plays were even worse than Shakespeare's.

But the transitions from one to the other are continuous: witticism blends into epigram, caricature into portrait; and whether one considers architecture, medicine, chess, or cookery, there is no clear frontier where the realm of science ends and that of art begins: the creative person is a citizen of both.

The film evokes a bygone era in which screen heroes were seemingly always dressed in tuxedos and able to produce a clever witticism or seductive line for every occasion.