Word: witting
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...Tamey. "You wonder how did you get this way? How did this happen?" The kids felt the pain too. Brandon, a bright child with a sharp mind, hungered for attention and grew angry at times. Without any peers, Nicole, a pretty girl with a sweet smile and a quick wit, was adrift and alone. They had no friends, no neighborhood, no grandmother and little reason for hope...
...benign busybody, trying to pat almost all the lives that touch his into shape. His work comes out a little too neatly, but Kline's performance, like all the others, is engagingly soft- spoken. And well spoken. The screenplay -- by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan -- has a nice, unforced wit, and Lawrence Kasdan's direction has its jagged edges. If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best qualities -- generosity, common sense and a mature decency that is neither smug nor sentimental...
...there are times when living any way at all can serve the same purpose. It is based on the true World War II adventures of an adolescent Jew named Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider). His parents send him away from home, hoping that as a free agent living by his wits, he can escape Nazi persecution. Captured first by Russians, then by a company of German soldiers, he becomes an accidental battlefield hero. His reward is a scholarship to an elite Hitler Youth school, where every shower is a threat: circumcision was a death warrant in Hitler's Germany. There...
...Lion in Winter--by Jeff Goldman. December, 1156. The royal family meets to celebrate Christmas and engages in a battle of cutting wit, unscrupulous deceit and shameless manipulation as they fight for control, vengeance and the English throne. In the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...sustains the book. Finally, the Sniffer is revenged, the present accounted for and Gil learns, ironically, to "Wake up, man! Come alive! Feel before you think! "The true joy of the novel is not in the final revenge nor even in the final lesson, but in the grace and wit with which Davies renders a history and in the sweet and artful confusion of Gil's afterlife...