Sentence examples for witty tour from inspiring English sources

This hotel doesn't fight the idea of being a stage set; it revels in it, and the result is a dazzling, witty tour de force.

Instead of carping snidely about this, in the style of a college bull session, Kugel gives us a magisterial, erudite, yet remarkably witty tour through the research.

Last summer his Wooster Street Gallery, Deitch Projects, a former commercial garage, was filled with "Black Acid Co-op," an incisive yet witty tour through various drug cultures and a simulated red-carpeted art gallery, which three artists had originally dreamed up for an alternate space in Marfa, Tex.

In "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" (1983), he divided American society into nine strata -- from the idle rich ("the top out-of-sight") to the institutionalized and imprisoned ("the bottom out-of-sight") -- and offered a comprehensive and often witty tour through the observable habits of each.

In "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" (1983), he divided American society into nine strata — from the idle rich ("the top out-of-sight") to the institutionalized and imprisoned ("the bottom out-of-sight") — and offered a comprehensive and often witty tour through the observable habits of each.

He married his serious, much-loved wife, Livy, and built a large, turreted house in Hartford that was so extravagant he had to go on another sold-out, witty lecture tour -- an activity he loathed -- to pay for it.

Meanwhile, the Harley has not only English's show, but also an exhibition of Peter Blake's pretty and witty World Tour collages, exquisite feats of decoupage that take the visitor from London to Paris and Venice via, well, Eastbourne (in The Butterfly Man in Eastbourne, 2010, by way of a "homage" to Damien Hirst, a vast cloud of butterflies hovers over the seaside town's prom).

Another woman Ms. Brussell finds simpatico is Francesca Blumenthal, a New York songwriter whose witty miniature tour guide, "Museum," a musical survey of the kind of men you meet in art museums, includes the delicious line, "It's certainly no folly if you dally at a Dalí." The show is also larded with quotations from women like Sally Field and Nancy Reagan.

But this witty, brilliantly executed tour de force — hailed by Michelangelo as "una bella fantasia" — was never installed.

Robert Thomson, the editor of the Times, described Coren as "a witty and thoughtful tour guide through life".

"Gulp" is structured as a vastly entertaining pilgrimage down the digestive tract, with Ms. Roach as the wittiest, most valuable tour guide imaginable.