You've got to have the intelligence to see in the first place that something's wrong and the wit and knowledge to try to prove it.
If Maude's earth-sprite aphorisms, occasionally overindulged by the screenwriter Colin Higgins, rub you the wrong way, the crisp visual wit of the director Hal Ashby's compositions will set you up.
The writer practices repartee with his wife before a party but she feeds him the wrong lines and his wit fails.
By Peter De Vries The New Yorker, December 22, 1956 P. 31 The writer practices repartee with his wife before a party but she feeds him the wrong lines and his wit fails.
Gaffes included getting a war veteran's name wrong and an interview wit Paloma Faith in which the singer plugged her latest recording and the pair mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag raised the ire of viewers.
Adventure game fans seem to be funding every project in that area to a high degree (such as Broken Sword) because they feel as though they are righting the greatest wrong in gaming history (to wit: that adventure games fell out of fashion).
"To every complex question there is a simple answer … and it is wrong". H.L. Mencken (writer and wit, 1880 1956).
It's wrong to confuse sarcasm with wit; sarcasm is a way of dismissing another person and treating their feelings as unimportant.
This final episode finds the doctors immersed in a game of wits between right and wrong, dreams and reality, and past and future.
Ian McKellen already can do no wrong in our eyes -- what with his wit, talent, humor and unadulterated friendship with Patrick Stewart.
