Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nishi Azabu apartment and consider this sorry career I had embarked upon, these losers I associated with compounding the very long odds that I would ever amount to anything. It really seemed there was no hope, that I was destined to become this shabbily dressed, dull mediocrity, short on wit, lacking talent, unable to muster the power or engines for sustained flight...
...DIED. JOHN MACKAY,62, tough-talking senior Conservative in Britain's House of Lords and former cabinet minister whose dry wit made him popular even with his opponents, of a heart attack; in London. First elected an M.P. in 1979, Mackay served as Social Security Minister under John Major from 1994-97, and become Lord Mackay when he was elevated to the House of Lords in 1991 where until recently he was deputy Conservative leader...
...Fragments are all that are left of Heraclitus's great book, "On Nature," which was lost many centuries ago. The Fragments have a scattered, enigmatic quality - epigrams and bits of poetry saved from the ruins. But they have a wit, and, for an "obscure" philosopher, a prismatic clarity that travels well across centuries. The thoughts remain fresh and profound. Haxton's translation shines them up handsomely...
...money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind is perceptive enough to create clever scenarios with some sort of reason to them; in the best sequence of the film, he conjures up a planet inhabited by intelligent body parts, but has the wit to craft a discordant societal structure around them. Earl takes up with the planet’s population of tiny-limbed noses, and together they battle tongues, lips, thumbs marching stoutly in formation, and eyes riding hands and feet into battle, their toes and fingers blazing like machine guns. Ultimately...
...Johnson to Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. What makes the book engaging is the diversity of material--from the race riots in Watts to the war in the Balkans--and the deft sketches of the characters he meets along the way. Though lacking in Dean Acheson's wicked wit or Henry Kissinger's grand concepts, Christopher's earnest approach has its charms...