Sentence examples for witty chapters from inspiring English sources

In this accessible volume, Raphael Folsom shares proven strategies in a series of short, witty chapters.

A few witty chapters cover the two years Phyllis and her kids spent in Israel following her split from Julian.

These elegant and witty chapters return to those concerns but treat a considerable variety of different topics, nearly all lending themselves to vivid illustration.

In witty bite-size chapters like "Milk," "Crying" and "Burps," Enright, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Gathering," illuminates the darkest corners of pregnancy and motherhood.

Only in her final chapter, after witty essays on the author's double self, the novel's clashing connections with art, commerce and religion, and the writer-reader tango, does she argue that fiction is an exacting journey into the underworld.

Browning begins every chapter of his witty and enjoyable autobiography with a full-page coloured map and every so often drops in a mini-map of a street, river or stretch of railway line.

He uses jaunty music (the score is by Amit Poznansky), printed chapter titles, and witty forays into memory and fantasy to emphasize the absurdity of this odd little tale, allowing the precision of his writing and the discipline of the actors to reveal its essential gravity.

The Etymologicon is witty and well researched, and the chapters are short.

And then it surprised me from the very first chapter: it was swift, witty and satirical, with a fine eye for English manners and English snobbery.

Particular attention was paid to Amelia in Have at you All; the fifth number, for example, featured "a new chapter in Amelia, more witty than the rest, if the reader has but sense enough to find out the humour".

It's the sort of arresting moment of naivete that frequently punctuates this witty, surprisingly humane dramatization of that vaudevillian chapter in American politics.