Sentence examples for witty without from inspiring English sources

Witty without trying too hard.

Happily Ms. Plumb proves beyond doubt that video can be entertaining and witty without being lightweight.

Susan Hilferty's costume design is just eccentric enough to be witty without drawing undue attention from the proceedings.

The GQ man is bold without being crude, sexy without being salacious, and witty without being puerile.

Landy writes delightfully crisp, accurate prose, managing to be witty without any sense of dumbing down the language or pandering to teen-speak.

(It will teach them to be witty without being broad, to be sexy without being dirty, to be soulful without writing it on the blackboard).

His book wants to make us all smarter and wittier, without making us glib or generic, like so much talk on the Web.

Joshua is witty, but without being caustic (unlike, say, Walter Burns in His Girl Friday).

He is witty, but without much sense of humor; a man of charm who can be appallingly rude.

Tomorrow's is a classic: a genuinely witty pun without a trace of the nastiness that has been creeping back into the paper lately.

("Oh, it only has a little butter -- what's the worst that can happen?") I'm dying for a witty retort, without having to lay out a medical explanation, to keep the attention from being on me.