Sentence examples for witty expression from inspiring English sources

Knox gave witty expression to the perplexities that bedeviled him between his graduation and conversion in Some Loose Stones (1913) and in Reunion All Round (1914).

In the Book Review, however, "Animal Farm" received an extended front-cover rave from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who wrote: " 'Animal Farm' may be taken as the most compact and witty expression of the left-wing British reaction to Soviet Communism".

And the Cunningham dancers here take these stylistic oddities and turn them into rivetingly natural or witty expressions.

Witty expressions are valued when done well.

The postwar book designer has two audiences — other designers, who applaud daring, witty "creative expression," and the bookstore browser, whose supposed interests are ever more zealously safeguarded in "a corporate environment where marketing analysts, editorial boards, and authors insist on significant participation in the design process".

In that study, they found that those scoring high in narcissism tended to display the four main components of the "charismatic air": attractiveness (flashy and neat attire), competence (self-assured behavior), interpersonal warmth (charming glances) and humor (witty verbal expressions).

Clive Thompson, in his new book on the ways that technology has improved cognition, writes that one of the unexpected developments of innovation is that "status-update tools like Twitter have produced a renaissance in witty, aphoristic, haikuesque expression".

The sets by Michael Brown with their large hanging props are handsome and witty (note the alarmed expression on the face of the huge weathercock in "Wildwood Park"), and the lighting design by Phil Monat contributes a crucial sense of artificial tension.

Muted colour tones are introduced for sequences happening in the present, and deploying the cartoonist's classic skill, Satrapi creates witty and sympathetic facial expressions with hardly more than a squiggle.

Her wizened face wore a quizzical, inward expression, at once witty and distant, but she spoke with great presence.

Goldie thought that Robey's comic abilities were not limited to his voice and depended largely on the relation between his facial expressions and his witty words.