Federer won the first and second sets My computer just went down, hence losing three games, and a very witty anecdote about Boris Becker's wife.
The New Yorker, November 20, 2000 P. 102 Briefly Noted review of "Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999" (Counterpoint; $30) by Ned Rorem...Although Rorem can still supply the witty anecdote... this may be his most unguarded literary effort.
After the first subject has taken the stage, the rest of the audience knows what's coming and can prepare pithy answers and witty anecdotes.
For journalists interested in policing issues, he was a dream contact – his conversation fizzed with ideas, research findings, witty anecdotes, memorable quotes and interesting paradoxes.
In his role as the avuncular M.C. and director of the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., Mr. Wadsworth introduced music from the stage with witty anecdotes.
Each contains witty anecdotes starring artists, collectors and academics; it's not clear whether they're real or fictive, but together they amount to a cocktail party or art opening full of sycophants and underminers.
On Twitter, the official @sfoutsidelands is manned by Ranger Dave, who posts Instagram photos, scheduling changes, and witty anecdotes, all in the third person.
WASHINGTON ― Embracing her status as a cultural icon, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday regaled law students with witty anecdotes while looking back on her storied legal career and offering a brief taste of the court's upcoming term, which begins next month.
His slim but lively meditation on manners is far more witty-anecdote-driven and personal than pedagogical, a mean game of tiddlywinks played on the minefield of manners rather than a series of law-giving tablets etched in stone.
For his part, Mr Blagojevich, a Serbian-American, seems to be aware of the challenging nature of his surname, though I wonder if his cellmate will appreciate his witty political anecdotes as much as his party colleagues.
Two hours with Nicholas Coleridge is like time spent with a particularly diverting glossy - witty, entertaining, anecdote-tastic, you depart with a warm glow but a curious doubt about penetrating the heart of the matter.
