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...deerstalker and the magnifying glass. Scriptwriters Derek and Donald Ford develop a delightfully nasty notion: why,not pit the most famous Victorian detective against the most notorious Victorian criminal-lack the Ripper. The confrontation contains some bloody-awful picture possibilities, and Director James Hill (Born Free) has the wit to explode them as he exploits them. The bloodiest, of course, are presented by those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century called a "London particular," glides up to a luckless trollop, and with a knife at least...
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. An ordinary spy plot becomes a novel of unusual depth, thanks to Burgess' memorable characterization and wit...
Honesty & Openness. A man of considerable wit and charm, Pike inspires intense devotion among many of those who have worked with him. "I am willing to fight for him forever. He is a great modern prophet," says Architect George Livermore, a trustee of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Cambridge University Theologian Donald MacKinnon calls Pike "a man of integrity and humility, with a remarkable honesty and openness of mind." Even Billy Graham, whose theological views are poles apart from Pike's, considers him a friend...
Their act, honed to within an inch of everybody's life, is among other things a pigeonholer's nightmare, swooping from low burlesque to high camp, from keen wit to Raggedy Ann clowning, from one-line gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone...
Lord Randolph, a genial wit to his public, was pretty much an ogre to his son. He believed that he had been cursed with a backward boy and treated Winston like a delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...