She jumped in, researching over several months information drawn from academic tomes that she then rendered in her characteristic witty, accessible English.
It sounds high-minded enough, and delivered in Ivins's characteristic wry, witty voice it's even entertaining.
Rather than cutting down a politician's most ridiculous characteristics with witty logic, Berger turns unassuming details ridiculous.
On this evening, Mr. Paul, the longtime libertarian House member from Texas and presidential contender, was in characteristic form: animated, witty, irreverent and uncensored.
Woody Allen films always feature witty protagonists.
They can be witty, humorous, romantic, dramatic, adventurous (enough characteristics) and anything else you would want.
She should reflect on her Physical, Personal, and Other characteristics, and identify three of them ("Witty, Easy to Talk To, Golfer" or "Architect, Charming, International") which will distinguish her from the pack.
Its colourful metaphors are generally directed at respectability, and it is this succinct, sometimes witty, frequently impertinent social criticism that gives slang its characteristic flavour.
Dyer's characteristic blend of fitful but astute scholarship, witty irreverence, and autobiographical digression (in footnotes that creep up the page) is here devoted to "summarizing the action of a film almost devoid of action".
His most characteristic mood was that of the slightly detached, wryly observant, ironic and witty commentator.
