Sentence examples for witty account from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, a profound truth lies embedded in Deresiewicz's witty account of his early animosity.

A mature, even witty, account of childhood darkened by an autistic brother and the murder of a friend.

In 1936, following a tour of the United States, Ilf and Petrov wrote Odnoyetazhnaya Amerika ("One-Storied America"), a witty account of their automobile trip across that country.

Far from being whimsical or cute, Lassnig provides a succinct and witty account of the difficulty of translating bodily sensation into a visual language.

Travelling in France, she wrote a sharp, well-observed and witty account of the trials and tribulations involved in collecting wired money.

Finn Brunton's excellent cultural history of spam offers a readable, witty account of the battle between the spammers and the spammed a battle of often surprising complexity and astonishing technological escalation, in an arms race that is still being fought.

Daniel Kahneman's lucid and witty accounts (backed by thorough research) of our apparently innate tendency to risk-aversion reveals the crucial link between economics and psychology.

With its witty accounts of small-town life, Musgraves's 2013 debut, Same Trailer Different Park, cast the young Texan as the antidote to the beer-toting, pickup driving cliches of "bro-country" that dominate Nashville's output.

The handful of surviving postcards contain no mention of postwar deprivations as he offers Méraud Guinness Guevara witty accounts of the installation of André Breton's surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1947, designed by Marcel Duchamp and Frederick Kiesler, and thanks for her hospitality in Provence.

Not since Moss Hart's "Act One" have I read a book about the theater--and particularly that branch of the art that markets funniness--that amused me so much as does Simon's witty accounts of his adventures on Broadway.

His The History of the Dividing Line, a witty satirical account of a 1728 survey of the North Carolina Virginia boundary, for which he was appointed one of the commissioners, is among the earliest colonial literary works, along with his accounts of similar expeditions, A Journey to the Land of Eden and A Progress to the Mines, published in The Westover Manuscripts (1841).