Sentence examples for witty description from inspiring English sources

The result will be as crisply elegant as his witty description of the design.

The clue of the day award definitely has to go to the witty description for OPERATIONS: "They're ordered by mathematicians".

Twenty years later, he returned to the theme with a vengeance, penning a witty description of Greek fans intimidating Chelsea supporters at an away game.

"One barely riding" was a witty description for LADY GODIVA, a woman who was a lot less inconspicuous than "Where's WALDO".

You can look up a specific co-op or condominium building -- 500 of them, right now -- and find a brief, often witty description of its pros and cons, and even the last sales there.

A few years later, in a surreal short story The Debutante, she poured out her loathing of "the season", with a witty description of sending a hyena along to take her place at her coming-out ball.

Merchants can design the virtual storefronts of their shops, and many feature stylized photos and witty descriptions of their offerings.

As the character muses about shoelaces and checkout lines, you hop aboard because you recognize these kinds of thoughts -- they're banal and perversely captivating -- in Baker's precise and witty descriptions.

An hour or two of Shawn's dark and outrageous imagination might have been a breath of fresh air, but three and a half hours of witty descriptions of weird sexual exploits feels self-indulgent and, dare we say, masturbatory.

One wants to quote her scrupulous, morbidly witty descriptions at length: the atrium of the mall "like an illustration of the chambers of the heart: people were carried upward by the escalators eventually to re-emerge, oxygenated by shopping"; the delicately caught moment of a husband's return from work: "... she did pity her husband in the moments of his homecoming.

They bring alive her family and friends, surroundings and contemporary events, all with a freshness unparalleled in other modern biographies, and also give us the unmistakable voice of the author herself, as she shifts from witty descriptions of the social life of town and country to thoughtful considerations of the business of literary composition.