Sentence examples for worldly wit from inspiring English sources

The smooth talk and worldly wit that gets the affairs started and keeps them going remain unimagined.

Yet if Carol, in the movie, flaunts a few flashes of worldly wit — albeit without much in the way of worldly knowledge — the nineteen-year-old Therese in the movie gives little hint of being a willfully original and complex creator on the measure of Highsmith herself.

PopMatters' Zeth Lundy described Richards' wordplay as frenzied, and said the "refined, worldly wit" on Strange Bird was striking.

We will be deprived of his wit, worldly awareness, and the highest level of integrity.

She is close to her mother, closer still to her wise and worldly grandmother, whose wit and shrewdness she imbibes.

He should immediately sack whoever it was that encouraged or allowed him to bury his invaluable strengths of worldly knowledge, caustic wit and absurdist eye in the misconceived attempt to involve us with a non-character for whom he has a fatally uncritical and quite inexplicable regard.

And for all his wit and worldly charm, Obama has been criticised for holding fewer and fewer press conferences, not allowing external photographers into the White House, and generally making himself unavailable for questioning.

David, who at his first meeting with Jenny identifies himself as Jewish, wins over her parents with his wit and worldly charm and introduces her to a glittering world of classical concerts, nightclubs, greyhound tracks and fast cars.

I was lucky to work with him as an actor and witness first hand the magic of what made him a legend -- the wit and other worldly improv skills -- as well as see him single handedly put the morale of a movie set, easily hundreds of people, on his shoulders and kept everyone laughing as they worked long hours for what seemed like months on end.

Writer friends knew him as a worldly bon vivant with an acerbic wit.

Together, Dr. Ricker and Dr. V offer up a singular sensibility that melds worldly erudition with a hip, contemporary wit.