Sentence examples for witty observation from inspiring English sources

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Scattered through the film like carrot seed on fresh tilled earth are many droll comments and witty observation.

I check my Facebook updates regularly now to see who's making what witty observation or who will point me to something interesting through a link.

The unarguable simplicity of those colourful facts turns what could be mistaken for a crude piece of agit-prop into a powerfully disinterested and witty observation.

So Richard Dawkins (By the Book, Sept. 15) enjoys reading "social satire," the "witty observation of the way people are and the way they talk," the "sharply penetrating perceptiveness" of writers like Evelyn Waugh.

Witty observation of the way people are and the way they talk, the sort of sharply penetrating perceptiveness that makes me want to run into the street and hug somebody with sheer delight.

(Robert Conquest) What the reader or listener wants to know is how the poet is going to come up with the rhymes for Fiji - we do not go to this text for information about Gauguin or his art, or indeed for a witty observation about Gauguin, since the poem isn't about him.

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Shrigley's childlike, simple sketches and photographs make witty observations with deadpan humour.

Last year our reviewer, Stephen S. Hall, admired the author's "cleareyed intellectual analysis" and "shrewd, witty observations".

Now that Hurricane Irene has passed, Twitterers can resume making #non-hurricanerelated jokes and witty observations.

They trade witty observations on mortality, and on their shared past.

Cooke's often witty observations ground us where the structure of the story doesn't.

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