Word: witting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Gore wants to, his formality gives way to real charm, but even that is carefully calibrated. It is commonplace to say Gore wears a wooden mask in public and removes it in private to reveal a funny, knowing, ironic man of the world. But the quick wit Gore deploys in White House meetings or off-the-record encounters with reporters is just another layer of the onion, another protective device. He trusts almost no one, worries about leaks and guards himself to such an extent that some aides are not sure they have ever met the real Gore. "When...
Naturally, the creatures' old nemesis, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), has been--literally--reincarnated, and her wit and toughness were not forgotten in the cloning. Nor did screenwriter Joss Whedon (of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) neglect to provide her with a spaceship of fools who refuse to believe her warnings of impending carnage. He has even given Ripley a soul sister (Winona Ryder) to bond with. O.K., she's a robot, but she's got a heart of gold as well as buns of steel...
...from Mr. Bush on some matter, and the giggles start to rise again, but it is not the same as when he led the free world. The country needs a funny President, and Clinton is not it. To be truly funny, a U.S. President has to 1) have real wit, like Lincoln and J.F.K.; 2) be a sort of caricature, like Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Coolidge and F.D.R.; 3) act with such consistency in one's decisions and policies that the very predictability becomes a hoot; or 4) have done something that really merits the use of a special prosecutor...
...steals the show as the head of a truly diabolical New York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Souhtern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either in wit or originality, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishly good time...
Kennedy never resolved the conflict--nor have we, nor will we. He was a driven philanderer at one moment. In the next he was a grand romantic who, with insight, eloquence and wit, sought a place among the legends Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Franklin Roosevelt...