"Charles Jessold, Considered As a Murderer," by Wesley Stace (Picador; $15) Stace is a professional musician and aspiring Wodehouse, and the whodunit is a mere pretext for witty debate, pitting "Satie's soufflés" and "Mahler's monstrous symphonies" against England's "melting harmonies".
Stace is a professional musician and aspiring Wodehouse, and the whodunit is a mere pretext for witty debate, pitting "Satie's soufflés" and "Mahler's monstrous symphonies" against England's "melting harmonies".
The novel sees Professors Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp (the protagonists of the first novel, Changing Places), jet off on a glamorous tour of international literary conferences, combining academic infighting and tourism, witty literary debate and romance.
The four interludes to which Heywood's name is attached are witty, satirical debates in verse, ending on a didactic note like others of their genre and reflecting some influence of French farce and of Geoffrey Chaucer.
And his fast-paced, witty Jesuitical debating skills would give the ever glib but blundering and quite ignorant Trump fits.
In an earlier conference call Thursday morning, John Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire and a supporter of Mr. Romney, tried to minimize Mr. Gingrich further, saying that a witty quip at a debate hardly qualified someone to compete against Mr. Obama in November.
When's the last time she had a spirited debate or witty exchange with Gillingham -- or, for that matter, talked to him about anything except how much he wants to marry her? Sure, he's cute, but he's also kind of a bore.
In "Can He Unleash the Force?" (column, June 6), Maureen Dowd faults Senator Barack Obama for his failure to use a "forceful one-liner" or a "witty takedown" in the debates.
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Since its launch on 27 May 2013, Guardian Australia has garnered a loyal following by offering a broad range of domestic and international news and hard-hitting investigative journalism, lively debate and commentary, witty sports coverage and engaging culture and features content.
It was witty of the Cambridge Union to set up the debate as they did: a priest (me) leading the case against an established church, and a card-carrying atheist (Stephen Fry) leading the case for.
