Word: witting
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...sure, one reason that the President travels so much is that marvelous plane," Peter Lisagor, a Washington wit, tells his lecture audiences these days. "The way to keep the President at home more is to take Air Force One away from him and make him fly Allegheny ..." Lisagor swears that before he is able to finish the line, his listeners are roaring with laughter and clapping their approval...
...movie is like the ragged end of a halfhearted parlor game played by Freud and Lewis Carroll on a slow summer evening. The young girl's appearance and her slightly prissy ingenuousness come from the Alice books. So do the controlled flights of strangeness. Carroll's wit is lacking, however, and his sense of wonder...
...building blocks of the team," retorted Wagner, proud of his wit. But the offensive linemen's laughter was short and hollow. The statement was more true than witty...
This is a tinderbox of a play blazing with wit, paradox, parody and, yes, ideas. It is exhilaratingly, diabolically clever. The bloodline of Wilde and Shaw is not extinct while Tom Stoppard lives...
...tell from here...what the inhabitants of Venus are like; they resemble the Moors of Granada; a small, black people, burned by the sun, full of wit and fire, always in love, writing verse, fond of music, arranging festivals, dances and tournaments every...