And he speaks splendid witty sentences, especially when being dry about the Dutch.
I was less concerned with the craft of artful, attractive, witty sentences, and entirely concerned with clarity and specificity.
He laboured over his letters, crafting elegant and witty sentences, saying important, interesting things, often to important, interesting people.
Jarrell household got swell compliment from French Professor Hooke: he'd read just first book of "Pictures," but said: "I said to Lucy that a lot of your witty sentences reminded me of Proust".
His writings of this last period include a Latin translation of Epictetus' Manual (1479); a collection of Detti piacevoli (witty sentences), composed in the vernacular between 1477 and 1479; Greek epigrams; a number of vernacular canzoni a ballo ("songs for dancing") and rispetti ("regards"), which show his taste for popular poetry; and Latin letters on problems of style and literature.
Such witty, energetic sentences are a hallmark of the novel.
Gilbert often writes superbly, his sentences crisp, witty, and rightly weighted.
Entertainment Weekly: "Between the bookish subject and the cranked-up prose, & Sons is Gilbert's overt bid to join the strata of "serious" authors that include Jonathan Franzen, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, et al. But it's more than a vessel for witty metaphors, impressively long sentences, and insidery jabs at the New York literary scene — although there's no shortage of any of those things".
As David Nicholls says in an introduction to this witty and tragic novel, the final sentence is "one of the saddest I've ever read".
Often colloquially called "educational memes", a mem could really be a photo, GIF, mnemonic, video, cartoon, example sentence, etymology or even a witty remark.
