Now Brinker, with his steady wit and ceaseless plans, Brinker had nothing to offer in place of Leper’s dust motes and creeping ivy and snails. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethyne was sixteen at the time, and known throughout the Protectorate as a remarkably clever girl—quick hands, quick wits. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I almost say, but then I recover my wits and press my lips together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gregarious by nature, Hall proved to be a skillful raconteur with a caustic Kiwi wit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now, suddenly, I was scared out of my wits again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor pushed her curls out of her face one by one, like she was gathering her wits by hand. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Chairman Jin was right behind me. I was scared out of my wits.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Peckem drifted toward the window, laughing quietly again, and settled back against the sill with his arms folded, greatly satisfied by his own wit and by his knowledgeable, blase impudence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He said: "They used their wits, you see. If you can't beat evil by strength alone, then a little cunning is called for." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

We—by which I mean the ladies—were also scared out of our wits. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

To wit: a little boy named Isaiah has a lot of books at home; Isaiah does beautifully on his reading test at school; this must be because his mother or father regularly reads to him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Much of the laughter had to do with her father’s sly wit and sharp tongue. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sam had just wits enough left to thrust the phial back into his breast. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to keep her wits about her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With Eilonwy at his heels, he ran to the tree, fearful the fatigue and strain of the day had at last driven the dwarf out of his wits. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, he lives by his wits in the woods, so he isn’t exactly wagging his tail twenty-four hours a day. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"And you have the wits of a goose." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Roger gaped, horrified, but then collected his wits and ran to the nearest group of hesitating children. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your wits gave you away. There’s no one clever as a Kingslander, they say.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Another voice shouted: “Let thee wit we have the choice of King Arthur, to save thee or to slay thee.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They remembered his quick wit, his energy, his magnetism, his loyalty, and—if they got on the wrong side of it—his temper. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You were left to your own devices or so you thought until you were at your very wits’ end, at which time she would step in and rescue you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had stood for the fraction of a second collecting his wits, which had been far away considering the Orkneys or some other matter of state. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angry, frustrated soldiers might scare Sam Adams’s black handmaiden out of her wits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witty, clever lad that Lord Steffon had written of never reached Storm's End; the boy they found was someone else, broken in body and mind, hardly capable of speech, much less of wit. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ser Gerris was all his prince was not: tall and lean and comely, with a swordsman’s grace and a courtier’s wit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She has his coloring, wit, love of literature, and sometimes his temper. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I would need a bucket, with this pain. Thank you, but no. I want my wits about me. I’ll have no more need of you tonight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was enough to make you laugh your head off, the way both of those bad bulls had gotten the wits scared clear out of them, each one thinking he’d lost the fight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, he’s taken over by a dark mood, an unusually acerbic wit, strange and vitrified. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was little she always caught me, but as I got older I got faster, and when speed failed her she’d use her wits. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Laurie and she were always making signs to one another, and talking about ‘Spread Eagles’ till the girls declared they had both lost their wits. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to her with perfect indifference, while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his composure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that’s the sort of girl she was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nine months here and I still don’t know if she’s sick in the body or fried up her wits with the hair coloring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approach of a known killer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were in enemy territory now, a place of steep risk, the kind of fix you didn’t walk out of if you didn’t keep your wits about you. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Depew’s oratory on the fair quickly grew tiresome, but the man had a way of capturing with wit and brevity the true character of a situation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Your wit is keen,” I assured him, raising my hand to silence him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But sometimes they cut their hair into such wild patterns that attempting to imitate them, Wood sniffed, "would torture the wits of a curious barber." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the time Percy had recovered his wits, the enemy was everywhere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Your wit surfaces over and over like the rush of foam to the rim. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was charmed by her pleasing manners and keen wit,” Dr. Cigrand said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the surface, he was the embodiment of every parent’s dream, a strong, tall, well-dressed and well- mannered boy with talent and striking looks, not to mention the wit to joke with an adult. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her magnetic charm stemmed from her quick wit and keen intellect. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

And so I am left to my wits, which in fact are prodigiously keen and surpassingly wise: I enter a town, with my crutch and my cry: “Food for the famished! Alms for the poor!” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, let us see what we can do,” said M. Bouc, brightening a little at this challenge to his wits. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the batting averages, but he saw nothing except the image of a little girl in a brown plaid skirt, scared out of her wits, biting her lower lip. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“That,” I said, “is the crux. Van Helsing is simply frantic about it, and I am at my wits’ end. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Sharp as a rapier is this lady’s wit.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But the interview was still ahead, and she resolved to keep her wits about her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

No, he had to remember she was an assassin with the blessing of a pretty face and sharp wits. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My wits were so disordered that I answered yes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The battle of wits has begun,” said the man in black. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He can take my fingers and my toes, he can put out my eyes and slice my ears off, but he cannot take my wits unless I let him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A blunt refusal would have been unwise. The men might rightly ask if I had taken leave of my wits.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind chilled her naked body and she stopped to collect her wits. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But anyone with half a wit could tell who the shoe was meant to fit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A Belgian newspaperman there recognized wit and raw avarice—a useful combination in any game. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was speaking the truth, he had had wits enough to escape the destruction of his warren and survive a long journey through open country. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of pot roast, I had spent the three months before this involuntary visit subsisting only by a combination of my wits and the microwave. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, in her own room, she stood leaning against the door, trying to collect her wits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He was now, as Bigwig said, getting old, but his wits were still clear enough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confronting their joy, once I have settled my wits, I am sure I shall feel joy in sympathy; Bono would do so for me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the songs, Lann was the fellow who winkled the Casterlys out of easterly Rock with no weapon but his wits, and stole gold from the sun to brighten his curly hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We are all awed by your incredible wit,” says Will. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Each week they match wits with a special invited guest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She declared she was at her wits’ end to come up with a presentable meal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it is mutating and if any of us have caught it, let’s hope it gives us a week or two before we lose our wits. Come on. Let’s get moving.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I heard footsteps in the hall or a knock at my door, I remembered Hamlet coming into my room, his blue eyes flashing with wit, mischief, or desire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I did. Now I offer you my men, my ships, my wits.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We have wits enough to know it must be put safely in Dallben’s hands.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it swayed and seemed to be gathering its wits. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

These Orgota have not the wits nor size of spirit to fear what is truly and immensely strange. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few breaths of clean air help me reclaim my wits, and I notice that Helene has disappeared. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he saw the goddess’s torches blazing, the giant seemed to recover his wits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The gold that she had squandered to open the doors of the Hall of a Thousand Thrones was largely a product of the merchant's generosity and quick wits. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I had my wits about me, I would have slipped out and taken off with the truck the moment I realized there was no water in the bug-out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Elaine, who was now as white as the Queen had been but still held herself proud and upright said: “You have driven him mad. His wits must have been weak.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wondering where the hell we got to. Scared out of her chubby little wits.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some wit had carved it into the cinder block so that each time he looked in the mirror he reminded himself that the biggest failure in life is selfcommunication . Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Where Anatole France’s work had been about ideas and wit, and Thomas Mann had been about precision and the ordering of character and plot, Honoré de Balzac, to me, was all about character. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“To make a trial of their wits and an ordeal of their judgment,” he said as if he relished confusion itself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was green, and he overestimated his resilience, but he was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously she had been frightened out of her wits, as well she might be. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think I’m senile. That’s the mistake everyone makes. They think old Granny’s wandering in her wits, but she hears a thing or two. You were going to tell her about the Masks, weren’t you?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One May afternoon, I sat near a window at the west end of the queen’s gallery, trying to decipher the tortured wit of his latest letter. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen window comes the wit wit wit of a barn swallow, footfalls on ramparts, halyards clinking against masts, hinges and chains creaking in the harbor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The woman yelped when one of the rescuers grabbed her with both hands and yanked her off of Thomas, who recovered his wits and scrambled to his feet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In general he was paired with a white ally, but Royal’s quick wits and proud bearing made it clear the color of his skin was no impediment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had few tools other than his wits, his notebook, a handful of photographs, and the children’s letters. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just a fairy, his wits, and maybe a touch of magic. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Before I could gather my wits, he turned full-face toward me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll need our wits to survive this,” Toby had said, making Luke laugh. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, "before my wits return. Go." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My point exactly, dear,” she says, then cackles with delight at her own wit. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Keep your wits about you,” Chaol said, still watching the duel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘One thing you have not found in your hunting, and that’s brighter wits,’ said Pippin, opening an eye. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was a lady shrew, a tiny thing scarcely bigger than a peanut, but with a wit as sharp as her teeth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down to think, and to collect my wits. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cleverness, over time, has sharpened into a rapier wit. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, unkindly, “Ask your daddy to buy you an Air Condition!” and he hooted with delight at his own wit and timing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no more questioning of Bigwig’s strength, Fiver’s insight, Blackberry’s wits or Hazel’s authority. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

New problems: Mrs. van D. is at her wits’ end. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had overcome all sorts of monsters and hardships with his quick wits. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was pleased to see that Reginald, though he said little about it, admired my living by my wits. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you’ll need all your wits if you want to get out of Serra alive.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Getting something and having the wits to use it... those are two different things. I’m sure your mother Athena would agree.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the Geats guffawed, delighted by their leader's quick wit. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mollie quickly revived, and Lucretia enjoyed hearing her husband's wit again. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This gave Annabeth just enough time to gather her wits and draw her knife. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Moreover his mother, Eurynome, although a mortal, had been taught by Athena until in wit and wisdom she was the peer of the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I will that all the world wit that I, Sir Gawaine, Knight of the Round Table, sought my death at thy hands— and not through thy deserving, but it was mine own seeking. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. Romantic hero. Got it. And I’m hiding a deep and tragic wound which I mask with arrogant wit and pained grimaces?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“In that case,” said the man in black, “I challenge you to a battle of wits.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and men's wits," said Tyrion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ranofer had seen the pair often hobbling about the streets of the City of the Dead, but their sudden appearance here sent his wits scattering like startled birds. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The way he mangled their grace, wit, and self-esteem was the single excitement of their days. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This attempt at wit...has it ever worked for you?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice followed wit h plenty of room, though she didn’t like to get burrs in her hair. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps once he could evoke gales of laughter with a quip, but the sea had taken that power from him, along with half his wits and all his memory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of the task, every number in the stack of papers she produced matched the computer’s output; the computer’s wit matched hers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“My husband’s aunt is a blithering idiot who has completely lost her wits. You should have told me of her requests at once.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see Faramir’s face, which was now unmasked: it was stern and commanding, and a keen wit lay behind his searching glance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As I wrote and blotted many phrases, lamenting my dull wits, Gertrude appeared at the door of her chamber, looking fretful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s true, I do use my wits to fill my belly with fresh cheese or warm rolls. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down was another overlook, a thin extra lane marked off less as an opportunity to gaze at the scenery, I thought, than to allow drivers a chance to stop and gather their wits. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been scared out of his wits that he was about to be thrown out of school, he would have been very pleased to have a chance to look around it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He had been at his wits’ end, with no reply to Bigwig’s scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What worked best was to keep my wits about me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wizard roared with laughter at his own wit. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But I quickly tamped down the screaming voice inside my head and collected my wits, along with the few available facts. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was engagingly well-written, with a sense of irony and a nearly wicked wit, and it was strikingly self-aware for a nineteen year old. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artemis hoped fervently that someone on the fairy team had the wit to spot the blunder he’d made during the negotiation session. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Although Roosevelt was too weak to sit up in his canoe, he appreciated the man’s wit and courtesy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

That other woman wouldn’t have her quick wit, her easy charm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to forgive me for raising my voice to you—I’m just about at my wit’s end.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He seemed totally unable to collect his wits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve got an escape route rigged up a back window, but Sonia kept her wits about her and asked who it was. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His wits are gone. He’s full of blood and worms.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My wits wandered some, ’bout the time my hands started bleeding. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that sagacity and quick wits are necessary in avoiding dangerous situations; and that fatuity and shortsightedness make one go around in circles, seemingly unaware of the many opportunities for escape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an odd manner of speech, a queer lilt that reminded Cora of the way those on the plantation sounded after they lost their wits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king’s grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My hair may be frizzled but my wits are not,” Alyce responded. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I’ve had an exceptionally irritating couple of days, my head hurts in ways you don’t have the full wit to understand, and I have a friend who might be in trouble.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He can get the wits scared clear out of him today and by tomorrow have forgotten all about it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had wits sufficient about me to bow; and then stood and regarded the girl, who regarded me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It’s when I get to the middle of the staircase that I’m scared out of my wits. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It is said there were no fleas in ancient Ireland, that they were brought in be the English to drive us out of our wits entirely, an’ I wouldn’t put it past the English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So now I want to see if Merlyn can restore him to his wits.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “you may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on you.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had something in reserve, some ingenious product of his counselor’s wits that would overwhelm their scheme. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of weather portents and the slack wits of smallfolk, and told how his nephew itched for battle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My love,, inflame me no more, lest you consume all my wit and betray my will Let men not censure my name that I call your love, that for which I rise and fall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This is who I came to see, Chronicler thought to himself, this is the man who counseled kings and walked old roads with nothing but his wit to guide him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For all his caution and wits, he was turning out to be a dangerous person to be close to. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A battle of wit, and a test, too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You deserve a good name. I hate to see some lordling with delusions of wit saddle you with some terrible name like Midnight or Sooty or Scut.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then there is a knock at the door that scares me out of my wits. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Old Mary’s at the end of his tether, or his wit’s end. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Those future explorers on Io will have to keep their wits about them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared out of your wits. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yet now, he saw, no one had had the wit not himself nor Jack, nor Piggy to bring a stone and wedge the thing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Before this talk with you tonight, I was at my wits’ end, wondering whatever I was going to do.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, the charade, with its “ready wit”—but then the “soft eyes”—in fact it suited neither; it was a jumble without taste or truth. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“No rest, no wits,” she said when forcing me to my cot just an hour before. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I collected my wits and was helping as best I could when the final wagon in the troupe passed us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By then I had collected wits enough to leap to my feet and race out of the church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Can a young maid’s wits be as mortal as an old man’s life?” cried Laertes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Hans, the young man from Berlin, was full of wit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt so much frightened that he could no longer collect his wits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to ask you...does this ‘encouraging development’ scare the wits out of you as much as it does me?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the queen's voice cut through the woman's ravaged wits. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Angela had a quick, wacky wit and made a game of making us laugh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Bel and the Serpent wasn’t so frightening, as it mainly featured the quick wits of Daniel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main purpose of the five tests, one gathered, was to isolate and study, if possible, the source of Zooey’s precocious wit and fancy. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But there are enough victors who still have the wits and the nerve to come out fighting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had she had all her wits, Desdemona could not possibly have fathomed what I was saying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Princess Elia was a good woman, Your Grace. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit. I know the prince was very fond of her.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart lived by his wits in an unstable, arithmetical world of black eyes and feathers in his cap, of overwhelming imaginary triumphs and catastrophic imaginary defeats. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘And he had the use of his wits, and of his legs too. That is heartening. We do not pursue in vain.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At Maer without Charles, his charm, his wit, his very presence to remind her of all she loved about him, the problem of their religious differences loomed large. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No use in flying off to unsafe places. Keep your wits about you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘Or indeed with wit to understand me? Not thou at least!’ he mocked, turning to Aragorn with scorn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Do not frighten the wits out of the poor thing!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

If they had half the wits of their pig, they would have fled King’s Landing the night Joff died, before Cersei could assign them some share of blame in her son s death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d left home after high school with nothing but his wits and his imagination, and he’d used them to attain worldwide fame and amass a vast fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had survived for years on the streets of Tarbean, living off my wits. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was certain that, once Burr recovered his wits and sense, “you will see the matter in the same light as me.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Besides being scared out of my wits, I am sick and tired of passing off my cooking for somebody else’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day he jogged through the hallways and up and down stairs, scaring the nervous tenants half out of their wits. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked dazed, as if some happy accident had robbed them of their wits; they moved slowly; their eyes were not focused on what they looked at. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He squinted, had no nose, and was weak in his wits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the village boys, with too much ale and too few wits, left the celebration looking for trouble to cause. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a scholar, the friend of Raleigh and of Nashe, the most brilliant and educated of the Cambridge wits. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her husband’s wit, his musical talent, those exquisite long fingers so evident in any photograph imparted a gleam to her days that she was never able to recapture after his death. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A small country, forced to live by its wits, its foreign policy contained a strong pacifist element. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. So how do we use our wits and the library to find dessert?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’s as weird and manic as he wants to be, and Henry jabs back in sharp flashes of startling wit. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before long his main weapon would lose its force, and then they’d only have their wits. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Has your pride crowded all the wits out of your head?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Wreaked havoc and mayhem. Pots and pans everywhere. Place swimming in soup. Terrified the house-elves out of their wits —” Clang. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All we have is our wits and—no, that’s all, our wits—and we have to stop her. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

A few cups of wine might be just the thing to help him sleep, but he would need his wits about him when Galazza Galare returned from treating with the foe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Forms and figures loomed out of the rain: boulders in our path, gruesome as ogres to my susceptible wits, hulking, pocked and eyed with limpets, shaggy with weeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

"Pease far wits. You get her flayed, you can scrub the bloody steps," said Weese. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"If the gods hadn't taken your wits, you would have been a great knight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was only stunned for a moment, but by the time I had regathered my wits, I had a heavy hand clamped over my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You can get you a good job. Wait till they see a boy wit!I a master’s degree.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, you do have some wit. God’s truth, before I reach my end, there’s work to be done. Big work. The work of ages.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

His voice shook; he seemed frightened beyond his wits. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I think Stan appreciated my low-key wit and I picked up on his enthusiasm for kicking the competition. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

An agent reported that Morrison, after being released from jail, seemed “frightened out of his wits.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Dean, a handsome, cultivated man of great wit, had just returned from a trip. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But we have four times the wits, and five, times the courage." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I’d kept my wits about me, I could have taken their dowsing compass away, ensuring my safety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like her fellow West Virginian John Henry, the steel-driving man who faced off against the steam hammer, Katherine Johnson would soon be asked to match her wits against the prowess of the electronic computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Hattie, that wit of yours and a nickel would get us a fine cup of coffee.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

By hook or by crook, by spit or by wit. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was a true hustler—uneducated, unskilled at anything honorable, and I considered myself nervy and cunning enough to live by my wits, exploiting any prey that presented itself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been raised on the stage, and my sharp Ruh wits ensured that I got the better of our exchanges. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And when they asked her where she had been and what on earth she had been doing, she said she had been out wit! The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The witch watched their beauty burn, their bounce, their intelligence, their wit, their open hearts, their charm, their dreams for the future. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I feared my wits had been melted by the flames, twisted and charred. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But secretly I'm wondering if Haymitch sobered up long enough to help Peeta and me because he thought we just might have the wits to survive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As well as I can remember, they were in the following words, to wit:— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who even this gigantic white boy, wit’ his sorry, trashy self say is talking proper and dressing good as a prince and doing jus’ fine, and writing us letters in his own hand! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked scared out of his wits, and Matt quickly said, “It’s not his fault. I gave him the bag.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had, in fact, come halfway across America on their own wits and meager resources. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor’s confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Have I lost my wits, or did my sister just kiss me?" he asked Bronn when she was gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother collected her wits and glared at me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

‘He forgot this,’ she said and handed him the hasty scrawl she had had the wit to write. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sure she must have done something to Jack, because he never would have picked a girl over them if he had his wits about him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To wit: “How could I abandon my closest friend, my iPhone?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because if depended so much on keeping my wits about me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instantly the father turned the plow aside, thus proving that he had all his wits about him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now do be reasonable, and take a sensible view of the case,” implored Jo, almost at her wit’s end. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come into the moonlight, for I wish only to behold your beauty and your wit, which you possess in such abundance, it stops my heart.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Worms have crawled up your hose and eaten your wits." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before he could recover his wits, Piper grabbed Annabeth’s arm and together they plunged through the second doorway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The weight of appreciation and the threat, which was never spoken, of a return to Momma were burdens that clogged my childish wits into impassivity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you give it all to me, God? Beauty, brains, poise, charm, and devastating wit.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentry by this time had realized what was happening, and was trying to gather his wits, but Iorek Byrnison was already turning a corner near the harbor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He let out a small yelp before he could stop it—it took him a second to recover his wits. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, for it was the first time that Arthur had made a speech, and he wanted to collect his wits for it “Well,” said the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A former college radio DJ turned public school kindergarten teacher, he has a gentle, thoughtful manner punctuated by a dry wit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I recalled his singular conduct of yesterday, and really I began to fear his wits were touched. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Regaining some of his wits, he got his bearings. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some fellow thinks he’s going to be the master of Africa and winds up with his nice European-tailored suit rumpled in a corner and his wits half cracked from the filaires itching under his skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Virginia, you could smuggle yourself into Delaware or up the Chesapeake on a barge, evading patrollers and bounty hunters by your wits and the invisible hand of Providence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The Irish've always had to live by their wits,” said Mum. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had no spark of humor and only occasionally a blade of cutting wit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The way things were jumping ’round and with my wits flewed away, it didn’t make no sense to try to keep standing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

This lad was near twelve, and the steward praised his wits and courage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The greatest American scientist, the most deft diplomat, the most accomplished prose stylist, the sharpest wit, Franklin defied all the categories by inhabiting them all with such distinction and nonchalant grace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His wits came back to him slowly and he looked up to see what was wanted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was no reason for me to be automatically in awe of the wit and intellect of these New Yorkers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

To wit: If they came back to their cars or trucks too soon, the birds at that particular radiator would miss out on some amount of food. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Would’e build a house wit barrow stones? Would yeh dig something out o’ a barrow an’ give it to your daughter as a wedding present?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If Harry hadn’t seen Mr. Diggory do exactly this back in the Weasleys’ kitchen, it would have scared him out of his wits. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And Aphrodite a piled three stories hig tulle and dripping wit jpeared in the room, with her hair 1, barely covered by a few layers of 1 artificial grapes from her shoulders to her knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, I would ascertain, not especially smart, and his slow wits and mild manner were no match for the chaos swirling around him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I squatted, trying to regain my breath and wits. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We all sat there like dummies, scared out of our wits. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

These are dark times we live in, and it is only by keeping our wits about ourselves that we can truly survive. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Where is it? Simply point, since your wits have left you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was quiet, subdued, reduced—a banished man living off his wits in a foreign land. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I only need half my wits to be a match for you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Archie had only his wits and a bunch of guys who were all big zeroes without him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for one’s wits, it is just not true that one can live by them—not, that is, if one wishes really to live. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I have the wits I was born with?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Up until the Santa Anita Handicap the redhead had been basking in the attention, boasting of his horse’s infallibility, and entertaining the reporters with his quick wit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was unhelpful, as they were still tending the horrible skrewts and needed their wits about them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The men were still shocked, disbelieving, but Mrs. Coulter recovered her wits almost at once. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

On this occasion Hercules had only his wits to trust to; he had to give all his strength to supporting that mighty load. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d proven herself in the tunnels under Rome, beaten a whole series of challenges with only her wits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For all his wit, Zeno got himself into serious trouble. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If I had his hands, and one quarter his wit, I’d be eating off silver plates inside a year.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as he gathered his wits, he realized that he had to ask her to stand again for sentencing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I must keep my wits about me, because there are always opportunities. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For a time, we were entertained by Will and John's ready store of wit and comic roguery as they engaged each other in kicking games. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Among her brood of six, Reggie was the quiet charmer, a peacemaker, sensitive with a dry wit, both athletic and awkward, honest. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘They say,’ he began again, ‘my wits left me after I got hit on the head by that customs official. That’s what you think, eh, Mr. Sam Adams?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them were several British intelligence officers who appreciated the Friedmans’ warm welcome and friendly wit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Truly I have never seen Hamlet in a blacker mood. His thoughts are dire, and it takes all my wit to reason with him.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“He just said: ‘As for that, come not too nigh: for, an thou do, wit thou well I will slay thee.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps was just as glad, he said, because he needed his wits about him that evening. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I find myself without the wit for verbal sparring. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care two wits about your feminine complications,”the Grand Elder roared as he marched into her study. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Janice Avery, who among all the seventh graders was the one person who devoted her entire life to scaring the wits out of anyone smaller than she, was right behind him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I hoped they would think that I had lost my wits through grief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Before we discuss the possibility that you’ve addled your wits with that crack to the head, tell me, how is the road to Tinue?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He read broadly in philosophy, science, art, and religion and was known throughout Chicago’s upper echelon for his ability to converse on almost any subject and to do so with great wit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"See, the savages lack the wit to understand the speech of civilized men." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s not exactly a tautology, but it is funny. You have a singular wit.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had to remember why she was going—she had to keep her wits about her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then, somehow, I got my wits about me and I felt about with my hand and I pressed the bell for the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t think, the pain robbing me of whatever wit I possess. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“A week ago they were being hunted with a rifle and were frightened out of their wits,” Penelope replied hotly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“If you had wits and could persuade me, it would not move me to revenge as much as the sight of you!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Hannah scolded, Meg cried, and Jo was at her wits’ end, till she decided to take things into her own hands. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choice of Noah, who’s only appeared on The Daily Show three times, is a major statement of faith in his charisma and wit. Trevor Noah Is the Sort of Risk More Networks Should Take 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

There's the wit of host Tom Bergeron, who sets the perfect tone for the show by not taking himself too seriously. Season 10 of 'Dancing With the Stars' spins to a close 2010-05-21T22:23:00Z

Abandoned or simply forgotten, they lived on their wits, eating out of garbage cans, taking drugs and brandishing guns. Mary Ellen Mark, photographer of outcasts and hidden beauty, dies at 75 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Sometimes greatness isn’t about money, status, wit or even intelligence. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bullock’s challenge is to survive, with no resources but her own wit and will. ArtsBeat: At Toronto Film Festival, Works of Hope and Despair 2013-09-10T03:44:17Z

This time, Coll unleashes her wit on the D.C. real-estate scene, a subject so absurd these days that it seems almost to mock itself. ‘The Stager’ finds hilarity and touching moments in satire on local real estate

In crossing that line, “39 Steps” is as much a celebration of a moviemaker’s wit as it is a parody pastiche. Review: ‘39 Steps,’ Frenetic Thriller Spoof, Rises Again 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Her Harper now shimmers with wit and the promise of a buried resourcefulness. Review: An ‘Angels in America’ That Soars on the Breath of Life 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

Lauren Ambrose stars as an actress who uses her wit to compensate for what she’s lacking in glamour, money and talent. What’s on TV Friday 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

His public statement of the fact was a model of decorum, tempered by his distinctive wit. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z

At their wits’ end, they sent her to study at Mrs. Penrose’s Academy of Art in Florence. Leonora Carrington Is Dead at 94; Artist and Author of Surrealist Work 2011-05-27T03:30:06Z

At least the game is written with a Pixar-style wit, packing in jokes for the parents in the audience. Video Games: Rayman Legends, Total War: Rome II, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Puppeteer 2013-09-11T21:39:06Z

If the program occasionally shows its seams or a ragged edge, that’s a price I would willingly pay for an hour or so crammed with wit, playfulness and brainy beauty. Review: In ‘Platform 2015,’ the Beauty of Ragged Edges at Danspace Project 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The storytelling in “The Fades” can be convoluted and creaky, but there’s some wit to the writing, and the horror and battle scenes are legitimately frightening, by TV standards. Television Review: ?The Fades? on BBC America; ?Lost Girl? on Syfy - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z

“There’s definitely a samosa missing from the high tea selection,” is the sort of thing that passes for wit. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

They care not a wit about movies that touch on American life, and would prefer it, all things considered, that Hollywood was in the U.K. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Add a pinch or two of authoritarian control, and artists are quick to whittle wit into barbs. ‘Unexpected Smiles: Seven Types of Humor in Japanese Paintings’ Review: Elegance That Encourages Laughter 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

He has a dry wit and can talk as easily about serious fiction as popular movies and television shows. The Inside Story on Outsiderness 2011-02-25T21:36:23Z

The soulless soul of this machine, known as a Squip, is embodied by a dark angel who resembles Keanu Reeves in “The Matrix,” and is played with welcome wit by Jason Tam. Review: A High School Meltdown Heats Up ‘Be More Chill’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

And the system’s most elemental imperative will be forgotten: Our government governs by the consent of /all/ the people, not by a small group wit the power and resources to impose its own will. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Those moments can have an amusing visual wit. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Sunny in the Furnace,’ at the Kitchen 2014-03-07T23:16:54Z

Network, turning her acerbic wit on the fashion faux pas of Hollywood stars. Joan Rivers' family remain hopeful 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Viewers know from the outset what happens at the party, but the journey to that moment and the road that follows are mapped out with wit and also compassion. Review: In ‘The Slap,’ Culture Clash and Family Dysfunction 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

It facilitated the curving shapes and lines basic to his formal wit. When He Was Good, He Was Breathtaking 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

One usually is quicker of wit than to succumb to the disease of rote memory and repetition. “Rubio deserved what he got”: New Hampshire’s gotcha moments, media spats and why the GOP “is built on mendacity” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Still, even at her worst — and the movie is all about her worst — she shows the wit and unpredictability that make it hard for anyone to quit her. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

It was hard to read them knowing she was gone, but it was also a powerful reminder of the wit and wisdom that made her such a gifted artist – and an irreplaceable friend. Arianna Huffington: 'Bernard Levin told me that going to bed with him was a liberal education' 2012-07-14T23:06:38Z

Too lazy for violence, Jack Sparrow employs wit and occasional bravery to survive on the high seas. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

Joelle, whose wit isn’t limited to hilarious one-liners, puts it well: “Sometimes being carefree and black is an act of revolution.” Review | Netflix’s ‘Dear White People’ is even better than the movie 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

We both expected we would grow old with Nora Ephron, having her hold up a torch—aflame with wit—to illuminate the way as we followed her through the caverns of decline. Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything 2012-06-27T08:30:05Z

One: This is a coup for sanity and wit. ‘Shake It Up’ Aims to Put Rock Writing in the Pantheon 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

His last name, Goloborodko, offers insight into the satirical wit of the show. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

It’s as if Mr. Barnett, newly fortified with wit and feeling, were channeling the Winston Churchill who said, “I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” Books of The Times: ‘The Book of Gin,’ by Richard Barnett 2012-12-11T21:11:25Z

Despite his brilliant mind and directorial skills, I have to say he was basically a nerdy-looking, professorial type of Jew, complete with standard tribal hooter and the natural blessing of wit common to his people. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

After all, the woman hasn't written a book for almost 20 years, yet she's heralded as one of the singular wits of her generation. "Public Speaking": Scorsese's Fran Lebowitz doc delights 2010-11-22T16:01:00Z

But the Chicks’ searing wit was still intact. Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Beresford, an actor, writes eminently actable dialogue: the kind in which surface wit is rooted in deep ambivalence. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z

I was in awe of her, and I fell for her wit and her charm and her friendship very quickly. His infidelity, our infertility: Could I forgive an emotional affair now? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

"Dickinson" is rising to its own song's crescendo in a confident second season, continuing the anachronistic charms established in its first and buzzing even more vibrantly with bright wit. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

“A lot of big boff songs, but no real wit in them.” Love Elaine Stritch? Thank the Parts She Didn’t Get 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Geary subsequently shows that wit thrives best when the brain’s policeman-like rationality lets down its guard and allows free association to run wild, releasing our inner Robin Williams. Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

I was duly warned that some consider it “wit ous’ curry,” or white guys’ curry, catering predominantly to the fragile palates of tourists. In Durban, South Africa, 13 Curry Stops in 5 Days 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

This year’s version, organized by the independent curator Pati Hertling, is also excellent, and installed spaciously with care and some wit. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z

The show is from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, whose other work includes the Adult Swim series “Robot Chicken,” and it’s full of the same quick, often crass wit. Review: ‘SuperMansion’ Stars Blundering Stop-Motion Superheroes 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

And the whole thing is infused with the wit and warmth that so endeared Gavin & Stacey to its fans, but crucially, has none of the more cynical comic set-pieces that marred it. Have you been watching ? Stella? 2012-02-10T11:19:38Z

“Rubies” fared worse, since not one of its three leading dancers consistently captured its exuberance, wit and sense of fun. Dance Review: The Bolshoi Performs Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ in London 2013-08-14T21:10:21Z

But clearly, something “both/and” is up, conceived with the moral acuity, wit and humane gallantry that have always marked the standard this artist carries into the field. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The shapes and cut were dramatic, and knitwear tops that turned into cowl necks and balaclava-style headgear brought warmth and wit to the show. Rihanna, Issa light up London Fashion Week 2013-02-17T02:46:04Z

And through her eyes, it became easy to understand Barker's charm, and the wit and the humour that united them. The poems and punch-ups of By Grand Central Station 2013-03-06T19:29:01Z

There is invariably a long silence of ellipses, before they go on to talk, with practised wit, about bendy buses and bankers' bonuses. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z

Benji’s tale brims with boyish wit and braggadocio as he battles his younger siblings and apprentices with the exacting editor of the local newspaper. The fate of two young boys are entwined in ‘The Madman of Piney Woods’

She thought many of the lines were so over the top, that she injected wit and humor into their delivery. 'Carrie Fisher taught me to be my own hero': readers' tributes to the late star 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Her narrators are prone to quoting Barthes or Sontag or deconstructing art-house cinema, but her sentences are always airy and streamlined, full of wit and candor. Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Brontë’s themes and moods — the modulations of terror and wit, the matter-of-fact recitation of events giving way to feverish breathlessness — are carefully preserved, though her narrative has been somewhat scrambled. | 'Jane Eyre': Radiant Spirit Blossoms in Barren Land 2011-03-10T22:30:15Z

There was no shortage of wit, often dry and self-deprecating, from the recipients and presenters onstage. 2010-01-13T22:21:00Z

“From this day forward you’ll become sparrows, weapons in a global struggle for power,” the recruits are told by Charlotte Rampling’s unnamed and unsmiling instructor, a sort of Ninotchka minus verve and wit. ‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Flightless Bird 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Sher’s hands, not a scintilla of Falstaff’s capacious humor and wit fails to land a laugh. Review: Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘King and Country’ at BAM 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Smith brings wit and warmth to Calvin, a figure who could’ve fallen into caricature. Brandon McCoy’s ‘West By God’ stands tall at the divide of rural and urban America 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Less polemical than his earlier work, Rocket to the Moon is shot through with characteristically Odetsian wit. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z

It’s a balance of physical comedy and atmospheric wit that’s nearly impossible to replicate, but one that Chow repeatedly pulls off in his best films. The God of Funny: Stephen Chow Comes to Brooklyn 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But with sharp casting, he pulls off a movie with a dash of wit, a few genuinely poignant moments and a generous helping of grace notes to make the clichés go down easily. '10 Years': Sharp cast makes this school reunion worth attending 2012-09-27T20:24:03Z

The gamy, wised-up wit of its dialogue pays homage to Elmore Leonard, but the plotting is much too sloppy to sustain the comparison. Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Her wit steals in like a cat through an unlatched window. Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

But thankfully Russell had talent and style enough to save her, wryness and coolness to burn, the wit to transcend all the nudging winks. Jane Russell: Mean! Moody! Misunderstood! 2011-03-01T22:00:01Z

He humanized the larger-than-life historical figures with the same soulful, reserved dignity — interrupted by flashes of sparkling wit — that he would later bring to T’Challa. Chadwick Boseman, who embodied Black icons, dies of cancer 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

To wit: A huge teacup and four Roman pillars dripping with candy apple–red polyurethane anchor the room. Sterling Ruby's Multidisciplinary Mastery On Display On An Epic Scale In New York 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Set in swinging 1967, the film stock, design and formal style captures and skewers the period with reverence and wit the same way "Nest of Spies" recreated its 1956 era and locale. 'OSS 117: Lost in Rio': Finding laughs in French spy parody 2010-07-01T20:42:00Z

“Joey has such a rapier wit, he completely dominated the audience.” Scene City: Finally, a Chance to Dress Up Again 2010-10-07T16:39:00Z

Despite its heavy subject matter, "Reunion" is peppered with the sisters' wit. Judith Claire Mitchell explores a family curse in 'A Reunion of Ghosts' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

As a YouTube video on the "10 Dangerous But Beautiful Werewolves of All Time!" notes, female werewolves "have the ability to scare the wits out of you, and still make you want them." Where have all the female werewolves gone? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

James joked about everything and we all loved him for it because his wit was so sharp, even at such a young age. Daniel Tosh and rape jokes: Still not funny 2012-07-12T11:26:00Z

Obscenity and kindergarten-style jokes are strictly banned, while sophisticated wit is strongly encouraged. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

But what breathtaking humanity he brought to life in his works: red-blooded roles, wit, warmth. The Jerome Robbins revolution: He found his angels on the Manhattan streets 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

He is proposing a zombie nation, where wit and disputation go to die. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

Older women with wit, wisdom and strong portfolios can’t get arrested. Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

He was going to keep his wits about him and not let anyone take advantage of him. The real Harry Redknapp 2013-04-30T14:49:41Z

He also possesses a sharp wit and a generous spirit, mocking his characters without meanness and lampooning their social circumstances without condescension. | 'Win Win': Riding the Wave of Life?s Indignities 2011-03-17T23:03:24Z

I admire Christopher Reid as a brilliant and engaging poet, and over the years I have watched his formidable wit and originality build an impressive oeuvre. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the battle of wits erupts only in front of the camera. Billy Crystal, Josh Gad cut close to funny bone in FX's 'The Comedians' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Armitage spins out surreal satires sharpened by his wicked wit. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z

For, as the American wit Garrison Keillor once put it, a good newspaper can only ever be so good. From The Room to Geostorm: how to make a movie so bad that people will love it 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

To see this ballet for the first time is to note its nonchalant and debonair wit; to see it again is to feast on its abundance of invention. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z

“Marva Collins” was as close as Tyson ever got to her wits’ end. Cicely Tyson Kept It Together So We Didn’t Fall Apart 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Williamson, tall and imposing, with a bushy white mustache, a booming voice and a quick wit, is now my Platonic ideal of a ringmaster. With the Ringling era ending, two acrobatic shows fly high with modern takes on the circus 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

But even his harshest songs often carried a light wit. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

His autobiographical lyrics about the ups and downs of relationships are heartfelt and savvy, complete with self-lacerating candor and ferocious wit. The Artistry Is Apparent, So Where?s the Audience? 2011-02-06T22:52:21Z

Where’s the biting wit of “England, England” or the knowing irony of “Love, Etc.” Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

It's still the funniest Shakespeare production I've ever seen, and in no small way because of the design; full of colour, style and wit. The artists' artist: set designers 2011-07-20T21:31:01Z

The idea of such practices brings out both the wit and puerility among these longtime, long-married pals, who begin speculating wildly about the polyamorous Pip. Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

In 2005, she appeared in Shakespeare in the Park’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” where Ben Brantley, writing in The Times, called her, “the production’s true find, a sparkplug of musical wit and vitality.” A ‘Hamilton’ Star Discovers Lunatic Comedy With ‘Girls5eva’ 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

There's subtlety as well as grand-standing bass on here too, from pretty opener Flying Into Tokyo to the agile wit of Ping Pong – the album standout for me, twinkling along with irresistible, shuffling danceability. Magnetic Man ? Magnetic Man: exclusive album stream 2010-10-06T12:03:00Z

One of the hallmarks of the 1980s series "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, was his avoidance of gun and reliance on his wits to disarm or keep the bad guys at bay. 'MacGyver' update won't be gun-free zone; more Colbert live 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But in any battle of wits and wiles, no one bests Maggie’s Lady Violet. Things we love this week 2012-12-27T19:31:03Z

Steeped in local lore, and armed with dry wit, Dr. George’s tours are now offered under the auspices of the HistoryMiami museum. 36 Hours in Miami and Miami Beach 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

The movie is a comedy of sorts; its faithfulness to the tropes of the Western is realized, at first, in winks—but it soon turns breathtakingly serious without sacrificing its wit. Highlights from BAMCinemaFest 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Like Nancy, she would seamlessly meld capsule accounts of programmes with opinion, and spice it with wit and humour - you felt you were getting your money's worth. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z

Hoppe’s dry wit resonates beautifully with the snippets of local voices he captured, including that of Violet Ndonga: “To go to the moon. It is for you Americans.” The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

It goes for, and occasionally achieves, an amiable vibe that requires no particular wit or skill. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z

The segment also illustrated how, increasingly, Oliver’s program seems to be a journalism-driven show with aggressively researched, truth-seeking stories told with a sense of self-awareness and lots of wit. Must-see morning clip: Watch John Oliver and Kathy Griffin parody the Miss America pageant 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Bloodshed and terror and only your wits to save you. 'Under Wildwood,' a sequel from Portland's Meloy and Ellis, safely scares 2012-10-03T20:57:06Z

The epic battles of armies and wits from the Three Kingdoms era inspired the classic Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and countless TV and film adaptations. Donnie Yen tackles iconic Three Kingdoms general 2011-04-22T16:16:08Z

The profession, especially in New York City, remains deeply corrupt, filled by Trump like folks who care not a wit for each other. Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

But it was exactly Powell's wit and authenticity that drew in many readers to whom classic tomes like "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" did seem inaccessible. Remembering Julie Powell, groundbreaking author of "Julie & Julia" 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

But the sustained male solo, performed by Reed Tankersley, that accompanies the first book is a breathtaking outpouring of dance wit and poetic bravura. Review: ‘Twyla Tharp and Three Dances’ Lends a Look of Sensuous Improvisation 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

It’s argumentative and often resonant, and lit from below by a gossipy wit. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z

And he sees his wits as his family’s only hope to keep from losing the Iron Throne as fast as they won it. Game of Thrones Watch: There?s a New Hand in Town 2012-04-09T11:57:28Z

But the opera, based on Mr. Maher’s play of the same name, swamps the original’s dry, brainy wit without providing that most important, elusive quality: enough variation in the variations. Theater Review: ‘The Hunchback Variations’ at 59E59 Theaters 2012-06-11T02:00:00Z

But Mr. Keillor said that her appeal transcended her wit, accent and “fabulous smile.” Jean Redpath, Prolific Scottish Folk Singer, Dies at 77 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The company’s energy is unflagging, but the wit is hit or miss. The Troubies turn an ancient Roman comedy into a modern 'Haunted House Party' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

For both, architecture was a combat sport, but one that required wit and grace, as well as accommodation for the unusual, extrinsic, and incongruent. Remembering Robert Venturi, the Close Reader of Architecture 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

What Noah does is use satirical wit, sarcasm and ironic commentary to show how most anti-BLM chatter is not just racist; it's also stupid. Trevor Noah's wit is an effective weapon against white supremacy and defense of police violence 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

At 28, Ms. Lázaro is as effervescent as her wit is sometimes morose, and she sees no contradiction in that. A Playwright Who Puts Her Demons, and Family, to Work 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Luckily for the rest of us, he wanted to share this joy, and had the style, command, wit, and voice—the voice!—to do so incomparably. David Attenborough on the Variety and Resiliency of Nature 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

We watch as Merida unwittingly places her mother in peril, then must use her wits and strength to somehow save her. 'Brave': Pixar's latest is lovable and endearing 2012-06-20T22:25:06Z

Every tiny snippet is drenched in the wry British wit and dash of lunacy both comic actors are known for. 'The Trip to Italy' a movable feast with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Nijinsky is a dancer, not a wit, and since we don’t see him dance we experience his scenes with Diaghilev as hopelessly unequal. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Parks and Mr. Vernon’s pastiche fusion musical numbers, choreographed with slashing wit by Jennifer Weber, are as synthetically sweet and perversely addictive as the real thing. Review: ‘KPOP’ Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Though he packed plenty of wit into his line deliveries, he rarely appeared in flat-out comedies. Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy 2012-02-06T17:01:31Z

At wit’s end, with the help of a kind, impoverished woman, whom he initially spurns, and who usually works in the food-service industry, the hero sees the error of his ways. The God of Funny: Stephen Chow Comes to Brooklyn 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Known for his quick wit and willingness to be self-deprecating, Philip’s brand of cheekiness didn’t always go over well, and sometimes veered into racism. Princely letter: Philip apologized to Nixon for ‘lame’ toast 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s distilled alienation,” said one particularly dry wit. The Ideal Conditions for Sound Art and Office Productivity Aren’t So Far Apart 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Topiary was the least skilled of the group when it came to hacking, but he had another talent to make up for it: His wit. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z

And whether predator, victim or hapless onlooker, they are accompanied at every turn by a spiky wit that may, among other things, make you reconsider how you order Japanese food. Once Cryptic, ‘The Treatment’ Now Proves Trenchantly Funny 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

His wit always has an undertow of sadness. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

In Sax's voice we hear a buoyant tone that suggests life is worth living, but besides his entertaining wit — love the punchline about falling off the Space Needle — that's the only comfort in "Hustle Hard." Download this: "Young With the Veteran Sound" by Sax G 2011-01-28T19:23:05Z

“At the same time, you want some of the wit and bite and ability that he will bring to it.” Bob Costas Signs With HarperCollins to Write Autobiography 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Thank you for gracing us plebs with your superior taste and wit. Review: ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ Has Dwayne Johnson as a Nerd 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

But as is the case with all great satirists, Youssef’s wit glosses an extremely sharp and insightful analysis of Egypt, the Middle East and the power of satire. “Stupid is stupid no matter what country you’re from”: What Bassem Youssef’s story of Egypt can teach Americans 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

His book will not be compared with Ron Kovic’s “Born on the Fourth of July” in terms of its soulfulness nor with “Catch-22” in terms of its exacting wit. Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z

What she endured wasn’t funny; it is the occasion neither of wit nor of exuberance. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Buffy was a social outcast to her peers, but her quick wit, vulnerability and expertise in killing vampires made her a champion for us underdogs. Readers Recall Their First Creative Crush 2013-09-01T21:08:08Z

The most notable aspect that Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski and Gaffigan brought to Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" — and it's a big one — was wit. Conductor James Gaffigan a bracing presence at Disney Hall 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

It should go without saying that their debut album is one knowing piece of work, if not an easy thing to love, as EE often foreground their wit at the expense of their soul. This week's new live music 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

As might be expected from a performer of her finely calibrated comic instincts, Ms. Stritch brings to virtually every one of Madame Armfeldt’s lines a sharp, at times excoriating wit. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z

But wars are won, too, by passionate oddballs and nerds, the patriotic geekerati that help an army to live by its wits. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z

As one wit said in the festival headquarters, you know it’s bad when the best movie so far is “The Great Gatsby.” Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes Film Festival, Ducking Rain and Competition 2013-05-16T22:03:37Z

She told me that she felt and I were a match made in heaven – the same wit, scepticism, joy of language. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z

Waller-Bridge is currently working on the new James Bond script, following intervention from 007 himself, Daniel Craig, who asked for her specifically to inject the next Bond film with her trademark wit. Phoebe Waller-Bridge to be murdered by Villanelle in Killing Eve 3 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Indeed, as the plane torpedoes toward earth Whip’s wits save lives and make him a national hero — even as the pressure of the investigation gives him one more reason to drink. Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars 2012-10-16T19:00:52Z

In the aesthetic theory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, wit is opposed to judgment, which is the skill of making fine distinctions, prising things apart. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

But Carrie’s honest writing and her razor-sharp wit were an even greater gift. Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her' 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

And yet, for all the talk in the play of armies and followers, Mr. Jacobi reminds us that this king’s most primal, abiding battle is the one fought with his wits. On the London Stage: Derek Jacobi's Close-Up 'King Lear' 2010-12-14T15:50:02Z

I think his dry wit, sometimes surreal plots, and technically perfect crafting of the French language, should all appeal to an anglophone literary sensibility. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

In their wit, ebullience, multiple references and palette, “The Ten Largest” seem utterly contemporary, made-yesterday fresh. ‘Hilma Who?’ No More 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The others don’t stand much of a chance, especially my beloved Curb Your Enthusiasm, whose 10th season had little of the wit or perspicacity as its first nine. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

To balance the mercurial and overbearing Morse, Lewis was a plain-spoken Everyman with a sneaky, sardonic wit. Critic’s Notebook: First Things First: The Case, Then the Pint 2013-06-13T22:43:18Z

Mr. Pollini’s febrile intellect is on show of course, but so too is a wit rarely associated with him, especially in the tiny Opus 49 works. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Mozart, Hugo Wolf and More 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Geniusas excelled at both, capturing the work’s frenetic energy, razor wit and despondent gloom. Russian pianist quarrels, attacks and fox trots in spectacular debut at the Phillips 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

And, as torsos and limbs tilted and bent in changing lines, you sensed Ms. Brown’s keenly exploratory wit. Review: ‘Trisha Brown: In Plain Site,’ on Spring Street 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

She had a cracking wit and wasn’t shy about rolling her eyes if I told a bad joke. Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

There is a glimmer of hope, a suspicion of redemption, and enough playful wit to suggest that what’s building in “Little Constructions” may well be a comic novel after all. Review | Anna Burns’s ‘Little Constructions’ is just as twisting and tragicomic as her Booker Prize winner ‘Milkman’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

At its best, the show “has a wit, sophistication and manic energy that recalls James L. Brooks’s classic movie ‘Broadcast News,’ ” Ms. Stanley wrote in The Times last year. Video: ‘French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928’ 2013-06-07T20:56:00Z

What it lacks in intimacy it mostly makes up for with wit and bounce and a sense that this deeply learned man is running for mayor of our brains. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

What could’ve been a disappointing choice to follow the success of “Teens of Denial,” feels vital with flurries of scribbling guitars, Toledo’s wry wit and dry-throated yawps. The 17 best Seattle-area albums of the year (so far) 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

His simplicity, wit and clarity might well suit the medium. Lincoln Center Opens Its Vaults for Dance Week 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

There was some actual wit there, rather than the labored overreaching that marked most of the premiere. 'Scream Queens' Series Premiere Recap: Funny or Scary? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

"Big moral questions are being tackled with imagination and wit." Evening Standard theatre awards honour Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremony 2012-11-26T13:11:00Z

One brewed some rich wit; the other wooed some rich Brit. Style Invitational Week 1467: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Together, they match wits with a “diabolical tween” known as the Bandit King. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Time wilts their wit, fading their bright colors like old political cartoons that poke fun at fat cats we no longer recognize. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Fun was certainly a regular ingredient, but so too were elegance, musicality, romance, wit and serious glamour. Tango Stars Perform at Dardo Galletto Studios 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

This collection of linked stories, set on an unnamed Aegean island and featuring a cast of wry, rough-talking Greeks reeling from the country’s economic devastation, showcases Ikonomou’s wit, compassion and infallible ear for the demotic. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The streamlined, utilitarian style of modernism was injected with the wit, whimsy and polymorphism of postmodernism. ‘Zoom’ at BAM: When Italy ruled the design world 2013-04-04T22:43:40Z

There are moments of wit, fear, imagination and grace that one remembers over the years, but they are scattered among the long drawn-out, meandering narrative. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:55Z

More significantly, she'd be killing it on Instagram, using her inviting wit to remind every single person who needs to hear it that putting food on the table is not a competitive sport. Give up on that sourdough and embrace the tao of "I Hate to Cook" 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

But it was an exceedingly dry different wit that he brought to Prokofiev. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s quite another to deliver on it with this level of panache, wit, insight and — unexpectedly — tenderness,” he wrote. Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Gerstein was poised and elegant in the central andante but hard-hitting in the outer movements, which were superbly dextrous but short on wit. Philharmonia/Gardner – review 2013-02-19T18:09:42Z

In 1806 queues of mourners filed past the body of Georgiana, famous for her wit, charm, political meddling and epic gambling, as she lay in state. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch ?2.5m 2010-07-14T09:23:00Z

Though he is almost 70 years old now, Buster Simpson still works as intuitively, as pragmatically, as tenaciously as ever, and with as much inventive and playful wit. Buster Simpson show at Frye a wide-ranging delight 2013-07-04T00:17:32Z

The clothes are really wonderful — so simple in design and full of genuine wit. On the Runway Blog: Ronald Shamask Returns 2011-09-16T21:08:12Z

“My family lives in L.A.,” said the designer, who personally walked editors, buyers and critics through his collection with the wisecracking wit that made him a reality TV star. Duckie Brown and Michael Kors Make the Case for American Fashion at New York Men’s Shows 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

That’s an admirable compositional method; there are brief sequences of wit and imagination here. Dance Review: ‘Licks’ Has Its New York Premiere at the Joyce Theater 2013-07-16T20:49:07Z

With the comedy apparently lost in translation – or mislaid on the flight to Scotland – this evening states the obvious but without the wit to render it entertaining. Meine Faire Dame – ein Sprachlabor – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-15T23:59:11Z

At the time, Tina Brown praised him as “a first-rate reporter whose wit and flair will be right at home on The Beast.” Olympic sex reporting gone wrong: How not to cover the international athlete hook-up scene 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

“It’s easy to shock, but it’s much harder to surprise with wit.” Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z

Her wit was savage and unrehearsed, and elegant: she spoke in spontaneous paragraphs that were also arias, and at some point I realized this was just part of how she thought her way through life. Alexander Chee on the life, work and loss of his mentor, Kit Reed 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

“We wanted someone who was witty in court, who didn’t hit you with brass knuckles but when you weren’t looking might devastate you with his wit,” Mr. King said. Matthew Goode Makes Mark in ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

And, as they pile up, Mr. Haynes joins the story’s halves with craft and wit. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

His use of evidence, absorbed from vast archival sources and hundreds of interviews, is punctilious, his judgments measured, his wit dry and sympathetic, his prose classically balanced. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

When Hamlet says, “They have a plentiful lack of wit,” and a character in Coriolanus says, “More of your conversation would infect my brain,” they could certainly be talking about Fox News.  16 Jon Stewart insults worthy of Shakespeare 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

There really were thousands of children using muscle and wit to thwart delivery of Pulitzer’s Evening World and Hearst’s Evening Journal — that is, De Woild and De Joinal. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z

His best-known films tended toward a stark neorealism, laced with incisive dialogue and an arid wit, and often centered on characters struggling against conformity. Alain Tanner, Leading Director in Swiss New Wave, Dies at 92 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

To wit, a late confrontation between Janne and Martin, sharply written, in which Martin now finds himself the one saying no – this scene never spills into the dramatic, and doesn’t offer catharsis. My streaming gem: why you should watch All Is Well 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

All this is portrayed lucidly and, at times, with insightful wit. Review: 'Jason and Medea' by Theatre 9/12 is love, battle, betrayal 2011-02-03T21:04:07Z

Cook logs many an hour getting muddy, coated in ash, scratched, bruised and, on one memorable occasion, scared out of his wits by pistol-packing bad guys. ‘The Mushroom Hunters’: foragers in the fungal wild 2013-09-06T14:16:07Z

"Works" is a book charged with wit and wonder, seeded with the prospect of future masterpieces. Edouard Levé's 'Works' is charged with wit and wonder 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Violence, usually senseless, often erupts in Herron’s books, but it’s offset by a large dose of mordant wit. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

On one hand, it's stupid to write about Atlanta producer/singer The-Dream 's high-tech R&B. To wit: No one should need "Take Care of Me" from his most recent album "Love King" explained. The-Dream's "Love King" songs of note #2: "Take Care of Me" 2010-07-22T20:46:00Z

There’s little in the way of a through narrative, but he spreads these characters around with agility and wit. Books of The Times: ?Red Plenty,? by Francis Spufford, About Soviet Russia 2012-02-14T23:18:36Z

He's a great presenter with an easy charm and a quick wit, but he's stuck in a miserable box of a room and consigned to glumly read out tweets. Has The Voice lost its charm? 2012-05-18T10:56:43Z

Their bearing in interviews carries some of the essential qualities of the music: the wit, the dignity, the mixture of passionate feeling and critical intelligence. Review: ‘I Called Him Morgan,’ a Jazz Tale of Talent and Tragedy 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Each performance — and I’m reluctant to single out individuals — brims with wit and magnetic feeling. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

A sophisticated piano-bar wit, Eric Comstock, on keyboard, plays the unflappably suave saloon dandy tossing off laments like “Everything Happens to Me” with an attitude of rueful amusement. Music Review: Donning Sinatra?s Mystique, From Movie Sailor to Saloon Dandy 2010-09-01T21:56:00Z

To discover whether this is true, all you need to do is to scare people out their wits and then give them a test during that terror. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z

To wit: Vivienne has signed her up with an online dating site after choosing a photo that said "fun and sophisticated!" Mistresses: series three, episode two 2010-08-12T21:00:00Z

Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, said in a statement that Meyers ”will be taking a closer look at this year’s best movies and television with his unique brand of wit, intelligence, and mischievous humor.”  Talk show host Seth Meyers to host 2018 Golden Globes 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Paul and his younger brother Joe, combined that punk ethos with their own musical wit and donned graduation gowns for their first show at a cookout in their parents’ backyard. ArtsBeat: Harry Potter Sang Bass, Hermione Sang Tenor 2011-07-13T16:04:21Z

To wit: Miley Cyrus kept her collaboration with the Flaming Lips covert until she was ready to abracadabra it into computers after an announcement at the end of the MTV Video Music Awards last August. The New Celebrity Power Move: Keeping Secrets 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

She has a new album, “Wed 21,” whose songs will be on display — as well as her impeccably quick wit — in her playful and quirky live show. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

At 81, the singer-songwriter, who is the subject of an American Masters documentary debuting on PBS on Tuesday, is full of wit and spry energy; her fingernails were painted a vivid, peacock-feather blue. Buffy Sainte-Marie Broke Boundaries in Folk. A Documentary Tells Her Story. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Jokes and puns, techno-slang and snarky asides crowd the page in an excess of wit that undermines, at times, the dramatic impact of the scene. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy

The singer was well known for her gravelly voice, brash style and sometimes caustic wit. Tributes paid to stage star Stritch 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The Irish writer’s 2017 “Conversations With Friends” won over American readers with its deadpan wit, following a young woman’s attempt to create an artistic life. The 10 books to read in April 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a lot of fun, this volume, packed with toasted social history and stoner wit. ‘High Times’: A 40-Year History of the Magazine 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

These questions are answered with equal measures of wit and wonder, and with only occasional moments of god-bothering. Movie Review: ‘Life of Pi,’ Directed by Ang Lee 2012-11-20T17:49:12Z

When Angus reaches his wit’s end with Sammy, he gives her an ultimatum: commit to a community-college class or go to a camp for troubled kids. ‘Marvelous and the Black Hole’ Review: Finding Magic Amid Rage 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The bot’s first release is from our inaugural year: “Cassandra Drops Into Verse,” a poem by the early contributor and Algonquin roundtable wit, Dorothy Parker. Introducing the New Yorker Poetry Bot 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

But, he added, “beneath an often innocent deportment there was a mighty, incisive wit.” Mark O’Donnell, ‘Hairspray’ Writer, Dies at 58 2012-08-08T05:23:01Z

Her unflinching perusal of the existential void is leavened by the dark whorls of poetry, the zigzags of wit and the musicality of Beckett's 1961 text. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z

“Some of that is darkness, and some of that is just his acerbic wit.” For a Struggling ?Friend,? a New Shot 2011-02-05T03:00:03Z

The award aims to raise the profile of critics and to "promote integrity and wit in literary journalism". Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z

Like “Hedwig,” the series matches a freewheeling aesthetic with Mitchell’s fiercely intelligent wit, and in doing so makes us feel like its beleaguered hero’s fond co-conspirators. Three Podcasts to Listen to in June 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Clive's main strength as a critic, apart from the sharpness of his wit, was the vast range of his interests – "from ice-skating to Beethoven quartets", as he once put it. How Clive James transformed the role of television critic 2012-06-23T23:06:15Z

Mr. Murray’s verse wears, from the waist up, a cosmopolitan, Philip Larkin-like wit. Books of The Times: Bits of Humor From a Life of Torment 2011-03-08T21:41:25Z

The line between wit and cruelty is always a fine one, and that’s especially true in “Class.” On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The dancers embodied the spirit of Jarrett’s left turn, and his resilience, in a pleasing, stylish whirl with touches of wit. The Washington Ballet, perfectly balanced in Forsythe’s ‘In the Middle’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

To wit, he takes himself back to the headspace he was in post-9/11. Bradley Walsh digs deep into his pain for Law and Order: UK 2013-07-04T17:24:19Z

When Aubrey Plaza arrived on the scene over a decade ago, her bone-dry wit, acerbic delivery and supporting turns in comic films and television suggested the second coming of Janeane Garofalo. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

A door is wit—it is entrance and exit, beginning and end. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It’s frustrating to try to capture even a glimpse of the man, his verbal virtuosity, his wit and Irish charm. ArtsBeat: Another Kind of Music 2013-08-30T22:44:13Z

The shows bear wit­ness to Van Gogh’s belief that, as he wrote, “if one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.” In Full Bloom 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

But the wit extends to the visual ideas. The Tempest ? review 2011-08-15T17:30:01Z

This animated adventure is an unexpected charmer, telling its story with wit and artistry. A&E highlights: Chesney at CenturyLink, Ballard bike riders and all that jazz in Bellevue 2013-05-22T23:21:08Z

But it also has a wit and quirkiness that serve as reminders that the region isn’t so sacred that you can’t bring a little humor to it. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

There is nothing wrong with that kind of line — he’s a newly fledged ultravillain in a comic-book movie, after all — but it needs to be earned, with gravity or wit. Review: ‘Fantastic Four,’ the Reboot (Wanted or Not) 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

There's also the infamous "bad apple" ideology, which Helen Rosner poetically writes about with incisive, stunning wit in The Atlantic. What is actually the difference between pumpkin pie spice and apple pie spice? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Its harmonious intricacy, melodic grace and poignant wit are ideal for this andante. Richard Alston Dance Company at Monclair State University 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

You might also call it wit or intelligence, a benefit of cultural remove. Is There a “Gay Voice”? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Dorothy Parker, just to find out if what they say about her wit is true. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The show is pointedly and self-consciously funny, savoring its own raucous wit, which paradoxically means that it just isn’t as funny as it should be. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Born on 21 July 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, the young Williams developed a quick wit as a means of overcoming shyness and boosted his confidence further by joining his school's drama club. Obituary: Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

There is a disarming wit and wisdom in these conversations as well as the ones Ben has with Quentin. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

The late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace is best remembered for writing "Infinite Jest," a sprawling 1,079-page opus full of ironic wit and dynamic, digressive prose. 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The exchanges between the divines and their king are a dramatist's sweetshop; James was a brilliant, savage debater with a scabrous wit that stunned the assembly. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z

“McCormack moves between wit, compassion and vulnerability with grace,” The New York Times wrote in its review of the film. Daryl McCormack Has More Than Luck on His Side 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

But this was a return to top form for Mr. Greenberg, with a production full of eloquence and stylized wit. ArtsBeat: Brantley, Isherwood Answer Readers’ Questions About the Theater Season 2013-05-02T17:29:09Z

Fine, but if only there had been more wit, style, imagination. At the Exponential Festival, Case Studies in Category Busting 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

There’s little reason and less sense, but the piece is conceived and performed with wit and flair. ‘Alan Smithee Directed This Play,’ by Big Dance Theater 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

In the end, Pinch can’t do either, which is just the kind of slowly grinding humiliation that Rachman’s wit captures so tenderly. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

But the wit he found in the music, and again some impressively soft dynamics, proclaimed Lehninger a conductor of considerable talent. Conductor, soloist make impressive SSO debuts 2014-01-24T17:50:06Z

They acknowledge the absurdity of Spider-Man crossing wits with Jason Vorhees, and use that absurdity as a jumping-off point instead of trying to ignore it. All mixed up: Ready Player One's pop-culture crossovers are just empty nostalgia 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

A good epigram demands that the poet masters two of the most difficult things to achieve in verse, brevity and wit. Poster poems: Epigrams 2010-10-07T07:34:00Z

Where the music is gently lyrical, with effects of rhythmic wit, the dances are flamboyantly and pedantically busy, busy, busy. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z

But it maintains a tricky, entertaining balance between the violence and suspense of its conspiracy-minded mysteries and a continuous current of deadpan, fondly cynical wit. Review: Guy Pearce Is ‘Jack Irish’ in a Noir Down Under 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

Post-punk fashion doesn’t get any better than that expensive bit of craft and wit, and that clinches it for my trim-store bracelet. On the Runway Blog: Little Ideas, Big Trouble 2013-05-03T22:18:43Z

“Chasing History” lacks the parched wit of Russell Baker’s “The Good Times” and the shrewdness of Mencken’s “Newspaper Days.” Carl Bernstein, Looking Back at His Start, Conjures the Newsrooms of the Early 1960s 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

He lived as a street urchin and survived on his wits and scraps of food. Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'The tears spoke for themselves' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

They fill the space with energy and the sheer intelligence and wit of the movements assigned to them. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s “3rd Rock From the Sun” without the wit or the understatement. Television Review: ‘Animal Practice’ and ‘The Neighbors,’ TV Comedies 2012-09-25T18:09:57Z

“Gary Oldman inhabits the role of Churchill, capturing his wit, grit and determination and even his impish smile,” he wrote in an online review. Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

And while his cosmic wit explains Nelson’s eminence as a troubadour-guru, it says even more about his skill as a country songwriter. Everyday Zen: On the road with Willie Nelson at 81 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

But has his relish in the words ever been as luscious as on Thursday, his wit as sophisticated? Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Reader, who played two sets at the folk festival's 50th anniversary last weekend, charmed festival-goers as much with her wit as her diverse repertoire. Scottish singer Eddi Reader revisits her roots at folk festival 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

This first book of poems, stuffed with wit and pagan grace, brainily dices high and low culture. Dwight Garner’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:38Z

Ephron staked out her spot on the cinematic landscape with a distinctive voice and formidable wit. Ephron blazed trail in male-dominated industry 2012-06-27T12:28:13Z

She wields limitless wits and limitless wealth; she moves through the world seemingly unencumbered by constraints of any kind. Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

He levels his gaze and says: “Sometimes you must have the wit to be dull. And not only have the wit to be dull, but the guts to be dull.” Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future

The scenes between the leading characters are so wonderfully constructed - they are battles of logic and wit. How Goldfrapp put Medea to music 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Maddox, the wit of the team, loses his house to an arsonist. The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

It was like Braveheart, at the end where he refuses the potion because he wants to have his wits about him. Rumer: 'Culture is mediocre because most interesting people are under a duvet' 2012-05-23T14:37:21Z

What Stevens brings to the now-familiar form is an incisive wit that, more often than not, she deploys against herself. Haunted by a Victorian Novelist 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mischer called Murphy "a truly groundbreaking performer" whose "quick wit and charisma will serve him very well as Oscar host." Eddie Murphy named Academy Awards host 2011-09-06T19:28:11Z

Beattie’s sociological wit and probity are truly unsurpassed in our literature; her talent for rural tragicomedy matched perhaps only by Thomas McGuane’s. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

This was another lift from the “Game of Thrones” soundtrack, and the wit of this one was only fully evident to those who are caught up on the show’s most recent season. “Game of Thrones” Night with the Staten Island Yankees 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

It's the Woody Allen antics, the tendency to argue tetchily yet with wit. Howard Jacobson shouldn't win the Booker 2010-09-28T09:52:00Z

Standing head and shoulders above their peers are Adam and Joe – a pair who've captured the zeitgeist by lovingly picking over pop culture's carcass with an irreverent eye and razor sharp wit. Six to Watch: Comedy double acts 2010-11-23T12:33:00Z

I thought about redecorating my life with brighter colors, a more adventurous style, even another man, one with perhaps more wit, more words. Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

These days he’s like a walking embodiment of Britain’s virtues, from understatement to wit to humility. Review: Paul McCartney’s Yesterdays. All of Them. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

A brilliant talker and aphorist, a fast-walking, fast-talking fount of gossip and insights, cutting wit and grandiose dreams, wild impulses and crazy projects, incisive observations and boundless audacity, Brooke seems like an ingenious invention herself. “Mistress America” and the Art of Making a Living as an Artist 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

His mother, the former Marjorie Ward, was a dance teacher and the family wit who, Mr. Marshall said, introduced him to self-deprecating humor, “which became one of the great tools of humor throughout my career.” Garry Marshall, ‘Pretty Woman’ Director and Comedy Mastermind, Dies at 81 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Sinatra is all understatement, relaxation, wit, and ease. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

It showcased the breadth of Ms. Buechner’s artistry, spanning thundering fortissimos and chiseled passagework, as well as lyrical moments colored by a poetic sensitivity that was tempered by wit and judicious restraint. Review: Japan Meets France, Through a Pianist’s Sensitivity 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Sounds like fertile ground for a theatrical treatment, especially one with the mix of wit and whimsy for which the English-born Wheeldon is known. This season is your last chance to see Joffrey Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ a 28-year tradition 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Long-time Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts adapted The Lodger from his Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, and it weeps with wit and affection. Doctor Who: The Lodger ? Series 31, episode 11 2010-06-12T18:30:00Z

Capote, himself of sharp wit and quick tongue, should have anticipated that he would one day be subjected to that same unrelenting eye. Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

The troupe, which by the mid-’70s included four men and two women, was known for its antic visual wit; unbridled, even slapstick athleticism; and periodic lack of clothing. Jonathan Wolken, a Founder of Pilobolus, Dies at 60 2010-06-16T05:26:00Z

Style-wise "The Politician" belts a Broadway melody of fantasy and dreaming, pushed along on a strong current of dry wit and fabulous fashion. Beyond flashy big names, "The Politician" showcases how voters are bamboozled, swayed, and disgusted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

To wit, New York’s notoriously creaky Tappan Zee bridge is described as a “hold your breath” bridge by one official. Watch John Oliver Shake Up the Debate Over Infrastructure 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Tension has given way to deadpan wit: the headrushing Ceremony is "a song we wrote as Joy Division, before our singer inconveniently died". New Order – review 2013-07-08T17:12:39Z

But “Utopia, Limited” followed a two-year rift between its creators, perhaps the reason it rarely approaches the vitality or sharp wit of their prime. Music Review: A Lesser-Known Work by Gilbert and Sullivan Tells a Tropical Tale 2010-11-22T21:47:00Z

His death was confirmed on Monday by his longtime representative Kelly Bush Novak, who said he had “privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit.” Paul Reubens, Creator of Pee-wee Herman, Is Dead at 70 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z

The result achieves, with style and wit, what the “Trovatore” aims for in vain, sending a breath of fresh air through the operatic museum. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The sly, subversive and disturbing wit on display here will feel familiar to readers of Ashbery’s poems. Review | You can’t really know John Ashbery’s poems until you’ve seen his collages 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Oh, and Bradley Wiggins has – mystifyingly enough – been voted Britain's greatest living wit. Jennifer Saunders blasts Viva Forever! critics and Psycho was a comedy 2013-02-12T17:51:54Z

Link to video: Boris Johnson unveils Katharina Fritsch sculpture for fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square There is simply no other way of putting it, and nor would earthy British wit have it any other way. Big blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square 2013-07-25T15:13:58Z

The September draft flaunted her practiced style, a rapier wit with a bedazzled handle, and included a few callbacks for dedicated fans, like a riff on Julia’s “the lights went out in Georgia” speech. Onstage, ‘Designing Women’ Sheds the Shoulder Pads, Not Its Politics 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Like her Tony-winning character Silda in “Other Desert Cities,” Light has clearly mastered the role of a Jewish woman facing personal and familial crisis with equal doses of wit and wisdom. | Judith Light 2013-04-23T17:16:51Z

A futuristic antique, its mechanics now look fragile in the extreme, but its oddness and wit are intact. Nam June Paik’s Work at Asia Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In theory, it could be a classic story – a battle of wits between one man and the rest of the world; part Dog Day Afternoon, part First Blood. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z

The excellent cast members haven’t yet found the ideal tone for the work’s abundant wit, its contrasts of low comedy with courtly heights. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-01T22:40:24Z

To wit: “Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.” film: Sometimes A Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable 2011-06-17T15:55:10Z

The board hopes both "ardent Vonnegutians" and "newcomers to his unique wit and literary legacy" will be keen to visit. Kurt Vonnegut memorial library to open in Indianapolis 2010-08-19T13:22:00Z

Using the sweeping perspectives afforded by the precipitously hilly terrain, he composes frames with the skill of a painter and the wit of a silent-film maestro. | 'Le Quattro Volte': Eternal Complexities of the Very Simple Life 2011-03-29T22:23:21Z

The films tend to add style to their khakis and wit to their whining. All the News That’s Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism 2012-06-08T18:19:24Z

A few readers on NYTimes.com agreed: Rarely do we see performances like these; rarer still do we see elegance and wit of this quality. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Readers Respond to 'Other Desert Cities' and 'Earnest' 2011-01-17T13:00:25Z

Every sentence is packed with wit, strange but appropriate neologisms, and jostling clusters of consonants that are there for no other reason than sheer delight in language. Railsea by China Miéville – review 2012-05-23T12:00:01Z

Breaking Dawn has moments of wit, but did the Twilight saga have to be so bland? The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 – review 2012-11-14T10:35:48Z

It’s told with brittle, world-weary wit: “I would have made margaritas, but all you had was the salt.” Book review: Kelly Link’s fantastic, fantastical ‘Get in Trouble’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

“Kreider is a curious and compassionate observer and a fantastic wit — I laughed to tears more than once.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

This will not disappoint Helen Simpson, who says that "Lorrie Moore's stories pack more wit and tragicomic power into a single paragraph than most novels manage over 15 chapters." Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

The films, he says, introduced him to the potent idea of the loser in a country supposedly all about success, and the wit of Jewish émigré culture. That's a wrap: Philip French, Observer film critic, steps down after 50 years 2013-05-04T19:52:19Z

This past spring, the film “Wild Nights With Emily” focused on the poet’s romance with Susan, as well as the playful wit of her poems. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

For the role, Louis C.K. brings his “don’t be a jerk” brand of sarcasm with a conscience — an apt match for the sharp and vital wit of these writers. ‘Trumbo’ Recalls the Hunters and the Hunted of Hollywood 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

And I do quite like writing those romantic scenes with wit and romance. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Daniel would be perfect at the pain, wit and passion. Trailer trash: Cannes Festival 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Winner of the first Talkies best reader award, Jarvis brings fresh sparkle and wit to the hilarious Wodehouse. Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z

Terrifying stuff all round, were a certain wit not a feature of the group's latest album, Grinderman 2. This week's new live music 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Fans know you for action, thrilling stunts, and of course wit and wits. Maggie Q returns to action with "The Protégé" despite an injury: "Everyone around me was terrified" 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

But some of these asides are overly self-conscious, lacking the wit and surprise of Mr. Freeman’s earlier plays. Theater Review: In ‘Why We Left Brooklyn,’ Angst Reigns Supreme 2013-09-06T20:59:52Z

Who better than a performer able to conjure entire universes with just his wit onstage? Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Too many punchlines are distinguished more by crudity than wit, even if Davies's delinquent glee keeps the funny side in plain sight. Greg Davies ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:00Z

There’s no impudence, no wit, no fire and little fluttering understanding, despite the ostentatious science, of how human minds really work. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

For all their technical acumen, the qualities that strike me most powerfully tonight are their warmth, wit and strange compassion. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z

It was not just about the trenches but also about irony, poetry and wit. On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The selection of essays that make up the book are written with all the intellectual assurance and wit for which Beard is known. Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard – review 2013-03-24T11:30:01Z

Cosby’s wit made him one of the world’s best known entertainers, but the transcript shows that his occasional attempts at humor during the deposition fall flat from the beginning. Bill Cosby’s own words provide scandalous details of his hidden life 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

But his brutal frankness was often cloaked in urbane wit. Frank Lloyd Wright: Separating the Life From the Work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

His wit is intact and rolls as if on casters. George Smiley and Other Old Friends Return in John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Forty-one years later, Soderbergh gathered an all-star cast to make a very rare thing: a remake that tops the original, at least in ingenuity and wit. Stream These Ultra-Cool Heist Movies 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The plotlines aren’t that different, but in the first category, characters respond to pain with charm and wit, while in the other, their shoulders droop, and they stew in bad lighting. ‘Finding Carter,’ Starring Kathryn Prescott, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The feud has exploded, helped along by Hedda Hopper’s columns, and Aldrich is at his wits’ end, trying to keep them from killing each other. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 3: Mommy Knows Best. Or Maybe Not. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Jane’s salons attracted intellectual figures, with attendants seeking to display their wit and conversational skill. Born to be Wilde 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Angelica: So this is what it feels like to match wits/With someone at your level! Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

That kind of wit, unfortunately, is in short supply at “666 Park Avenue.” Television Review: ‘666 Park Avenue’ Has Premiere on ABC 2012-09-29T01:37:07Z

The delight in Hamilton's writing is his clarity, enthusiasm, good humour and elegant wit. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z

To wit: One of the menu’s most popular items is Crispy Pig Face, whose pithy name belies its long prep time of smoking pork heads and shoulders. A Pittsburgh Area Restaurant That Trades Fussy for Fun 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

The show is at once a scathing satire and a self-sustaining engine of happy and absurd wit. America is stuck in a state of Arrested Development 2013-05-24T14:00:00Z

And that she has a real gift for comedy, as effortless in putting across Hazel's goofy gallows humor and raw-edged wit as she is in articulating the character's despairing nihilism. For your consideration, Oscar voters: Shailene Woodley 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

A regular festival participant at Bard, Mr. Adams is among the more affable scholars you can encounter here, which just made his measured delivery, lacerating wit and undisguised revulsion that much more chilling. Critic?s Notebook: Social Context as Musical Theme 2011-08-22T21:31:56Z

I had certainly never imagined that what a "Butterfly" needs is restraint; Kazaras had the wit to come to that conclusion. Magical restraint lets Seattle Opera's 'Butterfly' take wing 2012-05-06T20:11:05Z

It requires, the show’s director Alex Timbers said, “someone who inhabits darkness and hope and wit and humor and vulnerability. She can do all that.” She’s 17, Sardonic and Ready to Sing in ‘Beetlejuice’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Particularly during the 1980s, Gray was the embodiment of wit and self-awareness to a certain breed of urban male. ‘Spalding Gray,’ the Color? It’s a Long Story 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

The real revelation, however, is Rory Bremner who, in his acting debut, lends the butler, Crestwell, the dry wit and observant weariness of a man with more brains than his masters. Relative Values – review 2013-06-21T17:14:13Z

Stories of this bumbling mullah are used to deliver morsels of wit, wisdom, and advice all over Iran. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z

We witness that terror early in a chapter called “The Spin Cycle,” which is typical of the novel’s wit. Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

As a nation we love to laugh and take great pleasure in wordplay, waggery and wit. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z

There is no American filmmaker I can think of who tackles our modern-day culture wars and their historical roots with anything approaching Jude’s honesty, wit or intellectual rigor. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

“We, of course, knew she would be a terrific writer because she has a brilliant and vicious wit.” Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z

The "cast", who will be paid, will have no communication with the outside world -- not much of anything except food, clothing and shelter -- and will have to "survive" by their own wits. Reality TV gets real on the Web and in "The Vault" 2010-03-24T23:58:00Z

Reviews were positive, with the New York Times critic Ben Brantley noting that the songs “glimmer with hints of the urgency and wit” that lend the musical score of “Rent” irresistible momentum.” ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Through the Night,” which Mr. Beaty is performing with his signature wit, grit and piercing lyricism, is a thing of beauty. | 'Through the Night': Black Men in America Trying to Move on Up 2010-09-27T04:01:00Z

“The poems and stories she wrote and read to us in her commanding voice were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace,” Clinton said. Obama mourns death of poet, author Maya Angelou 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

We drank one, or two, maybe three, and then I was laughing and speaking as one with authority, wit quick and sharp if just a little slurred. I take to drinking 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

At the press conference in Cannes, Lewis proved that he still has his pugnacious wit and eagerness for laughs. A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes 2013-05-25T17:46:14Z

To wit: your Black Sesame and your Everything But the Kitchen Sink, two of the flavors identified in this year’s survey as “most daring or creative.” Vanilla’s a bore. Make roasted carrot ice cream — or one of 5 other new flavors — instead. 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

USA Today said the revival mined the original's raw poignancy without sacrificing any of its wit or romanticism. Musical 'On The Town' sails back to Broadway 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

It’s only when it takes an unfortunate wrong turn from playful wit into the dramatic and sentimental — Hallström’s speciality — that the movie starts to unravel. A Pair of Fish Tales: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Jiro Dreams of Sushi 2012-03-09T14:00:33Z

But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit. In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

“There is a great wit along with the breaking of rules taking place” in her books, says fellow author and Canadian Michael Ondaatje. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

“From fresh cultural criticism, to poems of place and personhood and appetite, to fiction that brings surreal wit to compassionate portraits, their work is the spring thaw of the mind.” Novelist Megha Majumdar among winners of Whiting Award 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

The production also lacks the unerring wit and sense of place and period that marked Richard Jones's similar updating of the piece for Glyndebourne, with which Carsen's staging will inevitably be compared. Falstaff 2012-05-16T11:31:00Z

Mormons, Scientologists, Catholics, Jews, politicians and film stars have all been skewered on the razor-sharp wit of South Park. South Park censored after threat of fatwa over Muhammad episode 2010-04-22T20:16:00Z

There are moments throughout the narrative that are exquisitely drawn, and I appreciate Lee’s dry wit and intelligence. Lots of People Love ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Roxane Gay Isn’t One of Them. 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

You play the world's most skilled contract killer who gets to avenge the death of her mentor, Sam Jackson, all while matching wits and emotions with the very equally dangerous Michael Keaton. Maggie Q returns to action with "The Protégé" despite an injury: "Everyone around me was terrified" 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

A mixed bag, "Death at a Funeral" has moments of real wit — and moments when you envy the corpse. Weak story lines cast a pall over 'Death at a Funeral' 2010-04-15T20:44:00Z

And it pins such condensation as a feature of wit more generally. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

From Sharp Edges to Sugary Success and Back When wrote about her early aspiration to be the only lady at the table, the sharpest wit in the room, she called this her “Dorothy Parker problem.” An Appraisal: Nora Ephron’s Sharp Edges and Sugary Success 2012-06-27T14:27:17Z

He is the cast member who is obsessed with social codes and clichés, who covers hurt and hard feelings with a wicked wit. Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z

The three of them then become locked into a test of wits and wills, with allegiances and understanding shifting. Video: Alex Garland, Rian Johnson, Graham Moore talk 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

This atavistic force is portrayed with great theatrical wit, stylishness and economy. | 'Being Harold Pinter': Political Theater, Brought to You by the Politically Powerless 2011-01-06T23:29:42Z

“To bring out his wit, his sense of humor, his joie de vivre and his courage about going into these towns.” The new Thurgood Marshall biopic is trying not to be a ‘good for you’ movie 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

It should be no surprise that Mr. Lévy, who stands for reason and engagement, loses this battle of wits against Mr. Houellebecq, who stands for almost nothing. Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z

She brings a seemingly impossible combination of athleticism, acting ability, intelligence, warmth and wit. A Minute With: Director Phillip Noyce on "Salt" 2010-07-29T16:13:00Z

“What sticks with you about Kaufman’s work is its celestial wit.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

And though much is said about his wit and charisma, Frank has as much personality as a figure in an Everyman play. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z

Bean’s quick wit and warm personality made him a favorite panelist for six years on “To Tell the Truth.” Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

The complete stylishness of his dancing was only an incidental pleasure: wit, musicality, camaraderie, dramatic focus, exuberance and pathos were central. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

To wit: Most police officers who die on the job are killed in traffic accidents. When the Punisher, a brutal comic-book vigilante, comes to your local police department, it can’t be good 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Reuters praised his “fiery and brusque demeanor, sharp wit and swagger.” Ben Bradlee was the original swagger master 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

The charade presents many opportunities for laughs, some involving broad physical comedy quite a bit of which is centered around the Los Angeles obsession with plastic surgery others actual wit with words. Just Go With It? Jennifer Aniston Runs Away With It 2011-02-11T00:40:00Z

It is not uncommon in the mountains for some wit to ask you when you call to buy corn whether you want it in a sack or in a jar. The celebrity war hero of 1919: The search for Sergeant York and his famous WWI diary 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

The day will also include a free play area and opportunities to match wits with a grandmaster. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

“I couldn’t believe that something of this caliber of science fiction and wit and just dark humor and something with so many layers was written at the time that it was.” ‘Black No More’ to Land Off Broadway This Winter 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

She used her precocious intelligence and wit to channel the pain of abuse and poverty into building an empire. Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

Corresponding with MC Paul Barman, a performance in itself: the one-of-a-kind rapper/thinker’s inspired wit and energy about the world around us will result in new work, and soon, which is terrific news. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Utterly devoid of wit, replacing that required virtue with banal repetitions and entirely predictable humour. Russell Brand to tour mosques and synagogues with new comedy show 2013-06-11T15:52:08Z

But Hyatt can't deny the current enthusiasm surrounding "Glee" and its genre-bending use of music, wit and drama, and "Modern Family," which he calls a "fresh twist on the family sitcom." Rookie TV shows have strong shot at Emmy glory 2010-08-13T08:59:00Z

That can be fun, and even powerful, when staged with the wit and intelligence that the best musicals apply to the uneasy relationship between art and commerce. A Chance to Fix the Tonys, and So Many Things to Fix 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

The usual methods are wit and surprise; the brothers go for aimless, charmless shock. Review: Can't Get Much Dummer Than Dumb and Dumber To 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Letterman is funny, a quick wit and inherent sense of humor. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

“I like living in a world where there’s a Maxine Waters,” Andrews-Dyer declares in her author note; Thomas talks about “being awed by her work, her words, and her wit.” Review | ‘Reclaiming Her Time’ is a Maxine Waters biography with as much panache as its subject 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

In the edgy frolic of the third movement, they nailed all the warps and wit innate in the music. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z

Just in time for Halloween, “Slade House” opens its rusty door on a ghost story that dresses up all the dusty old tropes with Mitchell’s spirit and wit. David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Oh, what will we do on Thursday nights without the wonderful wit of Tina Fey and company? Thursday TV Picks: ‘30 Rock’ series finale on NBC 2013-01-30T23:12:46Z

Shaiman and Wittman’s lyrical wit shone through in “Second Hand White Baby Grand,” a ballad of neglect about Monroe’s childhood piano. The Best Broadway Musical That Doesn’t Exist 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Basinger’s exuberant style — the exclamation mark in her title almost seems to declare the book a kindred spirit to “Oklahoma!” — coupled with her dry wit, is hard to resist. Why Movie Musicals Work 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

To wit: a large, slightly wrinkled, untucked button-down shirt. For Tim Cook of Apple, The Fashion of No Fashion 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The Prokofiev concerto itself is an angular blend of passion and reverie, infused with a wit that ranges from jaunty to thorny. 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

Mozart himself was a mercurial fellow, and the Israeli-American violinist matched him thrust for trenchant thrust of wit, poetry, and imagination. Shaham's Mozart dazzles Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-26T19:16:04Z

The rhymes obviously don’t approach the density and wit of Shakespeare, but the precocious cast currently in the city can make impromptu poetry sound like drunken Dr. Seuss. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Rich has “an antic imagination and a delicious wit,” our reviewer Sarah Lyall writes, and his humor is “enhanced by his generous, hopeful heart.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

In the grimmest of encounters—and there are a lot of those in this family of children battling to secure their entitlements—there is always the saving light of a savage wit. ‘Succession’ Review: A Family at War 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

It’s as if the president, as patient zero, had bitten an aide and slowly, bite by bite, an entire nation had lost its wits and its compass. A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

With an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a master’s degree in English from Yale, he handles these references with discernment and wit. Review | As a novelist, David Duchovny is no Sean Penn 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

I loved them for many reasons – for their melodies, of course, and for their humour and their wit, and for their northernness. Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll 2011-01-06T23:24:00Z

Moland pursues the mayhem with a degree of lowdown wit and a troll’s eye on the potential sensitivities of the audience. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Lou Reed had a mordant wit and a pragmatic understanding of his own legacy. Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The emotions are as recognizable and the wit is as fresh as in that epistolary snippet. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

These include David, an android played with silken wit by Michael Fassbender. Movie Review: ‘Prometheus,’ by Ridley Scott, With Noomi Rapace 2012-06-07T12:44:28Z

The subject was harrowing but enlivened with flashes of wit in poems like “Tired Sex”: Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

There was Mozartean wit in one impishly off-kilter passage and milky Impressionist colors in another. Music Review: Makoto Ozone Plays With the New York Philharmonic 2014-04-23T22:00:53Z

Wilde’s comedy, directed by the playwright David Auburn, thus seems like an evening’s entertainment in a local home, if its owners were people of exceptional wit. Theater Heads North, and in Every Direction at Once 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

The sleepy script badly needs more visual wit. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z

But for all the absurd digressions and circuitous detours, “Antkind” remains propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Nor, despite the research and native wit that Ms. Shear has poured into this play, do the reactions that the statue elicits seem altogether fresh. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

They did a fine job with the work’s minimalist patterns and understated wit, walking with splayed legs, pretending to be giants, and lying down to roll up the stairs. Dance Review: Ballet Tech Performs at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-14T20:30:52Z

The work is expressly intended to divert, and while the situation is overextended, it largely succeeds through the silliness of the otherworldly plot and the playwright's diamond-sharp wit. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

We see flashes of wit, poetry and even genius and observe momentous events, both private and presidential. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

A white-haired, elfin woman with a persistent smile and a sharp wit, Ms. Edgmon remembered how her brother was always making music. Woody Guthrie Gets a Belated Honor in Oklahoma 2011-12-27T23:39:33Z

The wit of the musical is embedded in its lyrics like: Good authors too who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words, Writing prose, Anything goes. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

Tomalin writes with a dry wit about, for example, the sexism she faced when starting her career. An Award-Winning Biographer’s Latest Subject: Herself 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

The music’s wit, charm and martini glamour inspired Morris to delicious, delirious heights. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

"And he had a crazy wit, just sarcastic as hell." Her son died from a ‘choking game.’ Now she’s determined to save other kids’ lives. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

“The Living Dead” expands, clarifies and concludes a tale more than 50 years in the telling, and does so with wit, style and a deep sense of commitment to this frequently unsettling material. Review | George Romero’s posthumous epic, ‘The Living Dead,’ reads like a definitive account of the zombie apocalypse 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

It makes us hear them and take what they have to say – in all its wit, wisdom and absurdity – very seriously indeed. Monkey Bars – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T10:54:39Z

“Strange Beasts” lacks the wit and control of her later writing. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is also devoid of irony and wit, those crucial spices of mental life. Books of The Times: ‘Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,’ by Michael L. Gillette 2013-01-08T15:00:00Z

Surely even capable athletes will relate to the interplay between body and mind, muscle and emotion, which “I Got It!” captures with beauty, fluidity, wit and suspense. If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Indeed, such was the quality of the wit of the two hosts, the ceremony should be nominated for some sort of writing gong itself next year. Fey and Poehler: Dream double act 2014-01-13T05:26:45Z

Armed with his wit, ever-present cigar and flute of bubbly, he lorded over his adversaries and allies as the world’s foremost dinner-table diplomat. ‘Dinner with Churchill’: Dining and diplomacy 2013-05-15T22:58:06Z

But it has flashes of real wit along the way. | ?World of Wires': ?World of Wires? at the Kitchen ? Review 2012-01-16T22:46:30Z

It's quickly apparent that Morrissey's wit, articulacy and all-round smartness is always going to mark him out as an oddity in the music business. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z

The story struck a chord online, and thousands of Facebook users applauded her post, praising her wit and ingenuity. Virginia woman wows Facebook with 'Target Dress Challenge' likening pandemic to prairie life 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

He considered radio stations to be disseminators of information, entertainment, ideas and wit. Michael Bukht obituary 2011-08-07T17:29:31Z

Other times, it took just plain wit — for example, when I called InterActiveCorp., the parent company for the Daily Beast. Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z

His pedantry is cut by acidic wit and compressed emotion. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

It’s rare to find a 600-page economic history that moves swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit, and this book happens to be one of them. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The prince might be a bit of an airhead, but who needs wits when you have kindness, a guitar, a positive attitude and really great hair? Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

"There's not been much wit and not much joy," she told the Guardian last month. Orange prize shortlist revealed 2010-04-20T08:49:00Z

This wine charms with elegance and wit rather than pedigree and power. Give your holidays some sparkle with these well-priced bubbles 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

To wit, critics have indeed found something troubling in La La Land’s gender politics. The La La Land backlash: why have critics turned on the Oscar favorite? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

But the wit could hint at darker things. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z

But none of those crack the top four craziest things. To wit: 1. Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z

Almost throughout, it’s a thing of small, light formal gestures, unemphatic in tone and socially engaged, though in an unperturbed way that accommodates friendliness and wit. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z

Nancy Mitford, for her wit, funniness and immense chic; Michael Wolff, for the riveting stories he could tell about the White House; and the diarist James Lees-Milne, for his all-around erudition, charm and good conversation. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

What he called his doodles were a bit like the man – deceptively simple, but imbued with wit and gentle good humour. Letter: Michael Gough obituary 2011-04-06T17:07:02Z

While "The Hebrew Hammer" runs out of gas during its final hour, even when it's failing, it at least strives for wit. Jews deserve a better Hanukkah movie than Adam Sandler’s “Eight Crazy Nights” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

He's got the arrogance and swagger he's perfectly entitled to have, but not the wit or the charm to carry it off. TV review: Babies in the Office; Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Alive; University Challenge 2012-07-16T22:45:01Z

To many critics “Arcadia” is Mr. Stoppard’s masterwork, the perfect blend of brains and emotion, wit and heartache. With Stoppard, Chance Always Plays a Role 2011-03-11T21:48:57Z

“Today” executive producer Don Nash said Hall brings “wit, enthusiasm and a keen sensibility” to the team. Tamron Hall Joining ‘Today’ 3rd Hour as a Co-Host 2014-02-24T17:18:35Z

For over six decades, she illuminated films and television shows with wit and glamor, crossing paths with hundreds of actors and comedians. Comedians and Actors Remember Doris Roberts 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Dear Carolyn: I am at my wits’ end with family drama. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The drama and the papa 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Thanks to Lansbury’s lively wit and the pleasures of well-crafted TV mystery, the show remains a delight nearly 40 years after it premiered. Angela Lansbury’s Greatest Roles: A Streaming Guide 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

There’s a special kind of schadenfreude watching someone realize that oncoming traffic is not at all impressed by wit or beauty. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It's hard to care about any of them, but it's pleasing that Preston has the wit to grant a second chance only to those of significant parentage, as opposed to significant character. This Bleeding City by Alex Preston | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z

But there was also musical wit on display — at last, a performance of selections from William Walton’s “Facade.” Bramwell Tovey and Ray Chen deliver fun and fire for fans at Disney Hall 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Her wit goes a long way toward making it all palatable to a general audience. 'Ape House': Sara Gruen's story of apes, humans and other complex characters 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z

Kobrin approached the sonata with a clinical objectivity that effectively robbed the piece of its characteristic passion, wit and charm. Washington International Piano Festival opens 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

But all the wit, the charm and the beauty seems to have survived the changes. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

Times critic Frank Rich cited the flashes of sensuality — which she said derived from the study of Greek painting and sculpture — and wit that she brought to the character. Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

My dad had a very dry wit and was not great with cars. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

With a sprightly wit and an all-star cast to bring it to life, the movie manages to be a loving parody of theater gossips, postwar London and Christie’s murder mysteries all at once. ‘See How They Run’ Review: An Agatha Christie Mystery Spoof 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

In so many ways, High Fidelity is the perfect Frears project: relatable, smart, romantic, funny and sad, building on British wit to create a Hollywood picture with an indie sensibility. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Elbaz always adds a touch of nonchalant wit about being a woman, as in a handbag in the shape of a perfume bottle: a goddess for the 21st century. Fashion Review: At Dior, a Triumph of 21st Century Modernism 2012-09-28T17:29:55Z

Those few seconds of front and wit are far more memorable than much of the synth-pop self-justification displayed tonight. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

They’re like a marriage of Tinker Toys and Rube Goldberg’s wit. Children’s Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

They haven't lost all of the theatre, the bellowing stridency, all of the bark and lilt, the hermetic wit, it's not exactly an austere, patient sound. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Wild Beasts 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z

I know he’s lonely, but I’m at my wits’ end. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When it feels like the heir is the dirty laundry 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The smaller ones celebrate homegrown talent — mostly in the "alternative comedy" vein that prizes weird wit and provocation. A stand-up roundup: Comedy clubs in Seattle and on the Eastside 2010-03-18T20:59:00Z

He's her match in intellect and wit, is at the top of his class at a local private school, and happens to be the son of her mother's new friend. "Never Have I Ever" highlights the rarity of South Asian couples on TV. Then it breaks up with one 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

To be fair, a bit of wit and play are allowed to sneak in. A New Biography Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Even there, the subject of death is treated with acid wit. The World Grieves for Millions. An Artist Grieves for One. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The series leavens wacky absurdity with acid wit and is very funny. Review: ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Features a Midwestern Fish Out of Water 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

She traverses drama large and small with wit. Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Although “Selection Day” explores a different species of ambition, Adiga’s wit and raw sympathy will carry uninitiated readers beyond their ignorance of cricket — ignorance that the novel’s “Glossary of Cricketing Terms” wryly anticipates. ‘Selection Day’: Two brothers and an obsessed dad seek a ticket out of poverty 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Photograph: AP Gore Vidal, the American writer, media pundit, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died at the age of 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin poise. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

During the season debut airing Wednesday on Fox, the audience cheers her, Simon Cowell defers to her and Spears is crisp, if not a wit, in her contestant verdicts. Judge Britney rules on 'X Factor,' Demi charms 2012-09-12T15:46:04Z

A principal since 2005, she has always danced with intelligence and, when it’s called for, wit. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The accessible but never ingratiating music echoes the sense of wonder and wit that infuses Ms. Chinn’s performance, with spacious chords and swirling arpeggios underpinning her dark-hued mezzo. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

His fashion photography and work for various publications, including The New York Times Magazine, demonstrated an emerging penchant for wit and surrealism. Rodney Smith, Whimsical Photographer, Dies at 68 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Imagine one of those Sunday night period shows like Mr Selfridge, but made with wit and vision. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

All the other films in the collection are rich in wit, emotional tumult and philosophical trenchancy. Sex and Power: The Provocative Explorations of Catherine Breillat 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

The sniggering dialogue confuses mean-spirited conversation and kinky behavior with genuine wit. | 'Boogie Woogie': ?Boogie Woogie? With Alan Cumming and Gillian Anderson 2010-04-22T23:32:00Z

They reveal none of the antic wit that von Trier lets fly in his press conferences, even in his most self-destructive ones. Lars von Trier's Melancholia: The End of the World as He Knows It 2011-11-10T18:07:51Z

Graham Greene brings his customary quiet power and dry wit to the role of the police chief. Review: Murder Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Wind River’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about Aretha Franklin or the lunch lady: How do you pack that much beauty, wit, passion, musicality, muscle, raggedness, and poise into one song, into one note? ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ Will Make You Want to Sing Out 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“We will miss his quick wit, wry humor, felicitous prose, and savvy advice,” the Met said in its announcement. A Stalwart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Step Down 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

To wit: A gigantic teacup and four Roman pillars dripping with candy apple–red polyurethane anchor the room. Sterling Ruby's Multidisciplinary Mastery On Display On An Epic Scale In New York 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Kupferberg’s poems and lyrics for the Fugs made political capital that mixed caustic wit and street wisdom. Tuli Kupferberg obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z

Grisly but not especially suspenseful, tongue-in-cheek without any real wit, “The Voices” aims to hit the intersection of horror and comedy but tumbles into an uncanny valley of tedious creepiness. Ryan Reynolds as a Killer in ‘The Voices’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Open with her beautiful natural Black hair and with the wit and wisdom of her incredible unapologetic Blackness. Unapologetic Black women are taking back our power 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

But it was her specific critique of the humor in many musical comedies — which she often found to be clever, rather than laugh-out-loud funny — that has infused the “Crazy” songwriting with a certain addled wit. Give them a hand! Musicals stage a comeback. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Peggy’s gifted but perhaps not brilliant; ambitious but perhaps not driven; empathetic and sympathizing but not all that warm; a quick wit but not funny; brave but not bold. Mad Men Watch: Loving You Is the Worst Way to Get to You 2013-05-27T14:34:11Z

To wit: on "Survivor," two of the other women on the island with Kim played their discomfort with Spilo as a strategy, which paints a repulsive picture in several respects. From "Survivor" to D.C., women are showing up strong on TV, but does patriarchal America care? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

There is sadness here but also humor and wit and an overall feeling of engagement with life. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Martin has said Tyrion is his favourite character to write for as a result of his wit, penchant for “iconoclastic, cynical one-liners” and lovable rogue qualities. Tales of Tyrion: what could a Game of Thrones spin-off series look like? 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

It is not weighty music — rather, as its title suggests, a giant scherzo sparkling with imagination and wit. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Played by Ms. Namekawa with sprightly sensuality and exuberant wit, it burst with precocious energy — and outdid in profundity much music written by composers many decades older. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Philip and Buster live by their wits, which entails collaboration, and that looks a lot like best-friendship. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Saved, by a whisker 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Teresa Thuman, director and producer of this production, knows just how to capture the wit and psychological subtlety that makes this nearly century-old play a perennial favorite. A well-spoken, well-dressed 'Pygmalion' 2011-08-25T18:19:05Z

My little sample may be idiosyncratic, and biased in favor of eloquence—these are elderly writers, all over the age of seventy-five, who clearly still have their wits very much about them. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

A 'dumb' movie doesn't have to lack wit, style, tension, characterisation and panache. Readers reviews: Transformers: Dark of the Moon and sellouts 2011-07-07T22:00:01Z

There’s also the fact that Dave’s distinct guitar work and edgy vibe were as much a part of The Kinks’ DNA as Ray’s sardonic wit or spry melodicism. “He stabbed a fork into my hand”: Dave Davies on The Kinks’ brotherly love 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

He’s a witty writer who appreciates the wit of others. Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Often it feels like a vital outpouring, and it shows strokes of wit. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z

I was a happy, chattering toddler, my mother got her wits back and started working, and Ammah’s faith in why she was put on this Earth was restored. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

The poet Paul Valéry said Degas "scattered wit, gaiety, terror" at these dinners. Exhibit shows Degas' and Cassatt's painterly influence on each other 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

It's a battle of wits rather than reflexes, a stimulating change of pace from the typical alien gorefest. 'Dishonored' tops a diverse year in video games 2012-12-12T14:50:09Z

It’s a little book, a bagatelle, but it’s a little book of irony and wit and heartbreak. Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Festooned with critical praise, the band, led by the producer and wit James Murphy, had never reached higher than No. 10 on the Billboard chart. LCD Soundsystem, Leaning on Traditional Sales, Has a No. 1 Album 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

With its august tradition of theatrical excellence, Britain has long been exporting its top-tier thespians to our shores, and this talent has cultivated a taste for language tautly delivered and wit served extra dry. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Now he spends his days writing books and doing school visits, in which kids revel in his dry wit and quickly created Origami Yodas. The Force is with 'Origami Yoda's' creator 2011-12-24T05:55:58Z

So too, with a little less feeling and a lot more overt wit, does Brendan Wenzel’s “Inside Cat,” another visually sophisticated tale steeped in confinement. Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Full of surprises and grounded with a smart, humorous script, Let the Bullets Fly’s battles are fought with guns and wit. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z

It’s sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

But he also said her voice was also “full of humor and biting wit.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But in casting Yang, a stand-up comic, as the "nose," the writers and director Hernán Jiménez pass up the chance to capitalize on his wit. "Love Hard," a holiday catfish story masquerading as a romance, is a swipe right and a miss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

For all the sly wit of some of these pictures, the knowledge that one of the titans of American art is now gone lends the series the ache of an elegy. Sally Mann’s Loving Study of Cy Twombly’s Last Years 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Not a masterpiece, perhaps, but Walters is very good at selling a motherly/wifely role with wit. Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked! 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Walter’s daughter said the actor will be remembered for her work and for her wit, class and love of life. ‘Arrested Development’ actor Jessica Walter dies at 80 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

De Palma’s wit is more facetious and, one might say, lacerating. ‘Sisters’ Isn’t ‘Psycho,’ but It’s a Lacerating Spin on Hitchcock 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Yet as this movement — a theme and variations — unfolded, he brought a touch of wry wit to his cool playing to let us hear how cleverly Beethoven altered, transformed and varied that seemingly innocuous theme. 2010-02-15T05:55:00Z

If this sounds like a recipe for clichés, Wohl suffuses the dialogue with trenchant detail and wit. Astute 'Barcelona' at the Geffen Playhouse leaves audiences guessing 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

It’s the difference between a real bookstore and one that smells like potpourri, and between wit and whimsicality. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

As did opinions about which was the better -- Tat's cheesesteak wit Whiz or the best-selling Tat'strami piled with pastrami, melted Swiss, sweet coleslaw and Russian dressing. Tat's tawks pastrami, takes bigger bite out of Pioneer Square 2010-05-26T21:06:00Z

Director Eric Tucker and playwright Kate Hamill of New York’s Bedlam troupe affirm the richness of theatrical opportunity in Austen’s decorously vibrant characters, in a fluid staging that sparkles with wit and invention. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

These devices, properly used, do so much more than proclaim the author's wit: they sharpen both sense and sentiment. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

More accurately, she stole the show with her dry wit and timing. Jonny Donahoe’s ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ Diary 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

“Penguins of Madagascar” promises a reasonable share of wit the minute it opens with a voice-over by Werner Herzog, in a sendup of his documentary on Antarctica, “Encounters at the End of the World.” ‘Penguins of Madagascar,’ With Voice of Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

And “The Unknown Known,” which draws its title from one of Mr. Rumsfeld’s most famous rhetorical flights, is very much a battle of wits and words. Movie Review: Deciphering Donald H. Rumsfeld in ‘The Unknown Known’ 2014-04-01T22:00:03Z

In 1947 playwright and wit, Noel Coward was a fellow guest. Romania's ex-king hits his 3rd UK royal wedding 2011-04-27T13:18:13Z

The series is packed with wit and slapstick humor. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

It's painful to report, then, that Perry's second album is a hard-nosed pop product with little of the humour or wit expressed so fluently by her wardrobe and choice of beau. Katy Perry: Teenage Dream 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

But it’s coupled with the sardonic wit of Anne’s character. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

"He has the ability to temper anger with wit, and difficult truths with kindness." Poet Agard picked for Queen's medal 2012-12-20T14:06:44Z

The tale is laced with a deeply engaging humor and wit tinged with sly meta-omniscience. A case of shifting identities in Vendela Vida’s twisty new novel 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

By turning the famous diary of a girl hiding from the Nazis into a graphic novel, Folman and Polonsky bring out its wit and humor in whimsical illustrations capturing Anne’s rich imaginative life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

In a production that plays it straight, this can be an enjoyable and witty spoof whose sly wit lampoons a far more innocent era. This week's new theatre 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

His salty native wit is complemented by the clear and lofty lyricism that has come down to us in his great speeches. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z

Rockefeller’s production nicely blends the charm and wit of the early days of “Sesame Street” with both old-school and more modern characters, all courtesy of Jim Henson’s creature shop. ‘Sesame Street: The Musical’ Review: Everything’s A-OK 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

With wit and freewheeling energy, Meirelles shows the fraught lives of these five characters who periodically address the camera with wan prose-poems about themselves. London scores as Brazil's Fernando Meirelles heads for the capital 2010-06-25T10:21:00Z

“Throughout her writing, she succeeds in capturing the wild, woolly heart of America, from its screwball wit to its every last detail. She is an American original.” Annie Proulx wins Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

This is one of those volumes in which “rooms rang with laughter” and “rapier-fast wit” is prized, but it never makes you laugh. ‘My Soul Looks Back’ Warmly Recalls New York’s Black Elite in the 1970s 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Mention might also be made of Justin J. Bell’s amiably imposing Friar Francis: In yet another testament to this production’s ample wit, this cleric delivers a surprising sight gag in the story’s final moments. A good bet: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at Synetic Theater 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Their Will Shakespeare is an arrogant genius and unflappable cynic, played with excellent dry wit by Lawler as a stage Scrooge with writer’s block, given to riffing on the expression “Bah, humbug!.” Shakespeare meets Dickens in ‘Holiday of Errors’ 2013-12-12T05:21:04Z

Sure it speaks soothingly to you, but it speaks to everyone in that same soothing voice, with the same precise words, and we as individuals matter not a wit to the GPS itself. Americans love zombies because they remind us of the Wild West 2013-02-11T14:15:00Z

To wit, nothing in the New Testament specifies the date or month of Jesus’ birth; even the year is open to debate. Circa Now: Some People Celebrate Christmas by Dodging It 2013-12-20T21:46:19Z

Only the parody avant-garde numbers — cautionary examples of what not to do on Broadway — and the re-creation of the immortal “Triplets” routine demonstrate much wit. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

It not only looks good and solid, but it explains with casual wit and total clarity why everything went wrong and makes sense of the most complex financial matters. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Hints of wit and tenderness glinted throughout, though some choreographic passages felt less necessary than others; it’s easy to grow impatient with such understated material. Dance Review | Platform 2010: A Human Landscape of Rippling Bodies and Meditative Minds 2010-03-08T06:38:00Z

A show like "The Incredibles" has wit, pace and excitement and fun, and it's one that as a parent, I go and enjoy as much as my children. Michael Chiklis' superhero series targets families 2010-09-22T12:28:00Z

And not just because it’s satisfying to watch Banks, Weaver, Mosaku et al as feminists fighting the patriarchy with wit, intelligence and medical know-how. ‘Call Jane’ Review: Abortion History That’s Being Repeated Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Set in real time, it has the feel of a series of short plays and, like Golaszewski's other work, balances pathos and dry wit beautifully. America: The Story of the US 2010-09-06T05:45:00Z

Bob and the Rat survive much and grow strong as they live on their wits. The Guardian children's fiction prize 2010 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

The main focus of the play is the contest of wills and wits between the Labour whipping team and their Tory opposite numbers. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z

Looking back on it now, it’s a pretty quiet, atmospheric film for most of its runtime, but for the entire duration I was scared out of my wits, watching it behind my fingers. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Somehow she gets into a situation where she is isolated from the others and has only her wits to rely on, and we get to see both Abbie’s inner life and Ms. Beharie’s acting range. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Is It Time to Think About an Ending? 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

People trapped inside this cordon must survive by their wits, many living like characters in a “Road Warrior” movie. ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

But in “Love’s Refrain,” he offers up his deeply passionate soul, only sometimes camouflaged by his acerbic wit. Review: ‘Love’s Refrain’ Has a Stargazer Looking Inward 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

There’s a tradition, too, of British performers going to Hollywood and returning with their wits intact to write up the experience in best-selling memoirs: David Niven set the bar with “The Moon’s a Balloon.” This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

In her debut romance novel, “Honey and Spice,” Babalola trains her keen eye and considerable wit on young Black British society. So You’re Rivals? And You’re Fake-Dating? Classic. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

“I was a nomad after losing my room, and I was a gnostic because I had to survive by my wits,” he told The Times. Grachan Moncur III, Trombonist Whose Star Shone Briefly, Dies at 85 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

And the Twenty Girls Plan sounds like it could have been orchestrated by “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”’s Aldous Snow, the raunchy overtones softened by its absurdity and wit. This is Leo at 40: How Leonardo DiCaprio became a Judd Apatow character 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

There’s a wit in these moments that leavens some of the aggression found elsewhere. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Slight shifts in tone bolster the wit, while smart timing makes the puns far funnier. | 'The Comedy of Errors': A Farce With Two of a Kind 2011-04-12T21:30:50Z

A sober man keeps his wits about him. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

“She could be spiky. She could be thorny. Her wit, sometimes it stung,” Shuster said. Fellow SNL writer remembers Anne Beatts as courageous, witty 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

The show, cabaret in style, features her singing abilities and comedic wit that were on display in "Glee," without the villainy of her character. Jane Lynch is cheery over musical comedy tour 'See Jane Sing' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Carlos is the perfect blend of style, wit, and charm, with a dash of naughtiness,” says his friend Vanessa Getty, the West Coast social dynamo. Stylist Carlos Mota Invites AD Inside His Dominican Republic Beach House 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

There is an implicit argument here between faith and materialism, one that is resolved with wit, conviction and generosity of spirit. Movie Review: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland 2014-05-02T12:20:44Z

This “Ado” is a beautifully muscular and no-frills effort that illuminates the wit and gravity of Shakespeare’s merry, philosophical tale of two courtships. Theater Review: A No-Frills ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the Public 2013-12-06T23:01:25Z

And there’s bracing wit in the contrast provided by the sailors’ crude, boisterous chanteys and the wonderfully clunky dance they engage in with the rum-selling island women. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z

For all her disarmingly bespectacled, girl-next-door appeal, the lady is an eviscerating wit whose humor touches on race, death, gender and all kinds of difficult, often terrible-to-talk-about stuff. What was Tina Fey's humor prize really about? 2010-11-15T21:01:00Z

They got through trouble with cleverness, charm and subtle wit. James Garner, 1928-2014 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

"Angelic vocals and acerbic wit" – New Zealand Herald. New band of the day – No 1,281: Princess Chelsea 2012-06-01T08:00:00Z

Built around a shambolic "let's put on a show" comeback story, it doesn't always crackle with wit, but South Park-ish self-awareness and Conchords-style songs compensate. This week's new films 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

What offsets this nastiness is Ms. O’Connell’s elegant wit, as when one character is almost hit by a bus in Manhattan. Books of The Times: ?What It Was? and ?Chalk Girl,? Crime Novels - Review 2012-01-22T23:06:34Z

There are sentences here of such agile cleverness, charged with wit and beauty and enchantment. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z

For all these worries, Corrie! is infused with the wit and warmth that marks Coronation Street out from the soapy crowd. Corrie on stage? Bless my hairnet! 2011-02-09T21:31:01Z

The cellist Kian Soltani, the soloist in the Elgar, played with buttery understatement and intimacy, and considerable wit in the Lento. Review: International Orchestras Are Finally Back at Carnegie 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

It’s told with the candor of a campfire conversation, a family photo album by her side, and with the wit, humility and earnestness Carlile exudes onstage and in interviews. Brandi Carlile opens up about overcoming insecurities, her latest Grammy win and her new memoir 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

There is the prickly wit and delicious complication of “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,” Joseph Cedar’s ebullient Israeli-American comedy, with Richard Gere in the title role. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

The first Shakespearean phrase I underlined during this period was “skirmish of wit,” about the raillery between Beatrice and Benedick, which inspired a lifelong expectation that romance must include snark. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

As is the case with most contemporary circuses, the comedy lacks any real wit or spontaneity, resorting to lame references to “Jaws” and the song “Ice Ice Baby.” The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

The new record reflects more of the rock-edged country that she displayed on her 2005 debut album “Kerosene,” with plenty of her well-known wit and sarcasm. Miranda Lambert is bold, funny and ready to rock again 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

These interminable sequences of overscale mayhem are kinetic and elaborate but almost entirely lacking in tension, grace or visual wit. | 'Sucker Punch': Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be 2011-03-24T21:53:04Z

My dry wit normally puts people at ease, and as such it's become my best coping mechanism. Trump’s pro-white, pro-fear rhetoric will keep fueling — and radicalizing — angry men 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Shor delivers them with such exquisitely mannered wit that she turns low camp into high elegance. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The viewer’s most acute feelings of loss apply to Stephen Merchant, Gervais’s collaborator on “The Office” and “Extras,” whose wit is sorely missed. Review: How Amazon’s Kate Beckinsale Series, “The Widow,” and Netflix’s New Ricky Gervais Show, “After Life,” Get Grief All Wrong 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

But her admirers noted that behind the humor and wit was a huge heart, and a genuine desire to improve people's lives. Dear Abby's legacy: Wit, warmth, and snappy advice 2013-01-18T14:05:19Z

The ensemble contributes lots of wit and intensity to the choreography, but it is the gymnastic moves by the leads that bring down the house. Review: A ‘Cinderella’ of Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Peek-a-Boo 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

If you aren't near water and you are at wits' end, and you don't know what to do … don't do anything. Henry Winkler on comedy, fishing and jumping the shark 2011-07-07T00:18:00Z

As a writer, he brings every conceivable gift — wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity — to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls “a just memory” of this war. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

There is another world of chrysanthemums hiding in plain sight, to wit the once familiar and now more obscure spectacle of the exhibition mum. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

More often than not, she’d be there, portraying women of wit and passion, whose commanding serenity rippled with hints of upheavals to come, masterly performances in masterworks by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pinter, Ibsen, Rattigan and Euripides. How Helen McCrory Shone, Even in a Haze of Mystery 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

Mostly such superfluity is exhilarating, especially since Gough has enough charm and wit to make you want to follow him, even though you have no idea where he may be going. Not the Booker prize 2011: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:21:28Z

The work is suffused with Haydn’s signature wit, and Ms. Freivogel and Ms. Toth fully brought out the cheek and chirpiness of the laughing grace notes, trills and other ornaments. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

His wit was withering; people were terrified of him. ‘Mike Nichols’ Captures a Star-Studded Life That Shuttled Between Broadway and Hollywood 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Updated to the eve of World War I and deftly toggling between wit and heartbreak, this Robert Carsen production was a revelation for me when it was new in 2017. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

If only Tate Modern's Bigger Splash show about painting after performance had had the wit to include this film. The best visual art event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:03Z

The balance of wit and beauty that Ms. Linhares is after may be at its best in two even smaller paintings — one of a vase of flowers and another of a Staffordshire spaniel. Validation successful. There was an error saving this asset. Please contact System Administrator. 2011-03-24T22:20:23Z

It is Dolores who provides the bulk of the book’s snarky wit and shrugs off being passed over for film adaptations, though she originated the characters onstage. A Dancer’s Life: Chita Rivera on Working Hard and Learning From the Best 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Her wit misfires more than usual; the ecological themes are overly familiar; there are no real characters to hang onto, and very little plot, not that anyone comes to Williams for scenario. After a Cataclysm, the Nature Lovers in ‘Harrow’ Struggle to Stay Sane 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

The performances, which included live snakes, shattered mirrors, and cow skulls as props, suggested archaic rituals, violence-tinged but executed with surrealist wit. Shock of the Nude 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Macdonald is quite simply a revelation, capturing the reflexive self-confidence and defensive diffidence of the millennial generation with sneaky sincerity and offhand wit. Review: ‘Patti Cake$,’ a Classic Striver’s Tale With a Hip-Hop Beat 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

As such, it is also the story of the author’s own life, one that she relates with intensity and wit. Books of The Times: ‘She Left Me the Gun,’ by Emma Brockes 2013-05-13T19:31:09Z

It wasn't a struggle, huge though the book is; Ackroyd's trademark insight and wit, and the glorious interconnectedness of all things, permeate each page. Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story' 2011-08-25T13:51:05Z

Because — surface irony and dark wit notwithstanding — there is so much love in the Antrimesque. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z

But she was an icon of feminism-lite, someone who brought intelligence and wit to the daily tasks of being a woman. My hero: Nora Ephron by Elaine Showalter 2012-06-29T21:55:19Z

With so much knowledge and such style and wit, it is no wonder that the duo received a five-minute standing ovation. Sleeping Beauties Brought to Life 2012-09-30T17:47:47Z

Although full of ferocity, humour, generosity and wit, Trockel's art itself lacks a unifying style, even though her early fabric pictures, featuring logos woven into cloth, gained her an international reputation. Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything 2013-02-13T19:30:01Z

Dave Frishberg, the jazz songwriter whose sardonic wit as a lyricist and melodic cleverness as a composer placed him in the top echelon of his craft, died on Wednesday in Portland, Ore. He was 88. Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

But instead of Sovereign's cheeky affability, Envy purges life's wounds in focused flashes of anger and scabrous wit. Envy: Set Yourself on Fire 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z

After all, verbosity is not the soul of wit. John Oliver and Clickhole Take Fake News in Opposite Directions 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

There’s a persistent warmth in this book, a species of faith that’s too often singed away by wit in contemporary fiction. ‘Behold the Dreamers’: The one novel Donald Trump should read now 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

“The solo difference is the interaction with the crowd. When I’m by myself, I’m able to use whatever humor and dry wit I have,” he said. Damien Jurado gets back to his musical roots with a 50-state tour 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit,” Wilhoit wrote: “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Perspective | The baffling defense of Herschel Walker 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Speaking of cheese: Feel free to order “wit Whiz” — the same stuff you find smothering a heap of cheap nachos — but I find the practice appalling and prefer provolone. Seattle’s cheesesteak scene gets a look from our Philly native 2013-02-02T01:06:40Z

By writing with wit and irreverence about a subject obfuscated and ossified in the history books, he brought the tumult of the late 18th century to contemporary life. The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happened 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Armendariz was best known for playing sly, sometimes cynical characters he endowed with wit and charisma. Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at age 71 2011-12-27T02:46:04Z

His most indelible persona, however, was that of the brilliant late-Victorian wit. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles Times praised her "calm demeanour and deadpan wit". 2010-02-10T10:24:00Z

Ever since, she has been a French national treasure, known as much for her long androgynous silhouette, austere elegance and melancholic songs as for her wit and forthright intelligence. Françoise Hardy, a French National Treasure, Is Back from the Brink 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Her calm book is short on rude humor and wit, and whatever narrative tension it manages to build mostly leaks away. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z

Shortly before his death, Mr. Hample completed a play, “All the Sincerity in Hollywood,” about Fred Allen, the radio comedian of the 1930s and ’40s famed for his verbal dexterity and barbed wit. Stuart E. Hample, Humorist and Cartoonist, Dies at 84 2010-09-24T05:18:00Z

Well, the film has a saucy, 120-IQ wit that it works way too hard to put over. Easy A: We Heart Emma Stone 2010-09-17T17:35:00Z

Ms. Mazzoli deftly uses repetition to build up the listener’s expectation and sly wit to dash it, though she also serves up measured portions of real beauty. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z

And it wasn't – in the main – his quick wit, his camp stylings or his philosophical bent that kept Brand in the headlines. Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z

“Miz Martha Washington” bears the signature of Ijames’s clever wit: He writes the slaves as more than docile stereotypes; these slaves have personality to spare, and they joke and sing with a threatening jocularity. Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

What caregivers require, Harper says, are the qualities of the Fool: loyalty, steadfastness, wit. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

At wit’s end, Magnolia decides to give the modeling gig a try. A Heroine Who’s Paid to Impersonate the Dead? Hey, It’s a Living. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Ophüls’s mighty visual and dramatic imagination is matched by the wit of the script, which he co-wrote with Curt Alexander—who later died in Auschwitz. What to Stream This Weekend: “The Bartered Bride,” A Brilliant, Rarely Seen Max Ophüls Opera-Based Musical 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Then there were accessories that mixed wit and wisdom. Chanel’s Supermarket Chic 2014-03-04T16:13:15Z

First, rhyme has many functions in a theater lyric, one of which is to suggest urbanity, wit, or a degree of self-awareness on the part of the character who uses it. ArtsBeat: In Praise of a Bernstein Flop And Other Answers to Your Musicals Questions 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z

Jester, singer, psychologist, philosopher, informal physician and spoof priest, Feste knows his own superior worth: "Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools." Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z

Ayoade performs a graceful balancing act in his screenplay and direction, finding and holding just the right note of quizzical surrealism and jazzy wit, while Eisenberg’s dueling performances are a marvel of comic contrasts. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

The comedian, known for his sardonic wit, announced his retirement in April. David Letterman's final 'Late Show' set for May 20 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Even though Kael never identified herself as a feminist, she was a powerful woman whose intelligence and wit swayed readers in an era when this was still unusual. The Perils of Reading About Pauline Kael 2011-11-02T09:00:57Z

He often wrote with incisiveness, wit and disdain at the same time. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z

There are no less than six choreographers credited to Blaze, yet few have the structural or musical wit to go beyond predictable unison formations. Blaze | Theatre review 2010-03-17T21:30:00Z

George Newbern narrates the book with perfect amiability and delivers its many sallies of wit and one-liners with impeccable timing and poise. Best new audiobooks for that long summer drive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Their performance of a Haydn duo verged on a theatrical skit that was true to Haydn’s compositional wit but also something fresh. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

But she’s a sensitive reader of her work and owns a sly wit. A Breezy Look at Eve Babitz, a Writer With a Born Feel for the Charms of Los Angeles 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

It was well received and was followed by a number of others mixing wit and humor with serious themes. Marijane Meaker, 95, Who Helped Launch Genre of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

His materials — high intelligence, wit, philosophical depth, technical virtuosity — looked back to an older era of poetry’s high ambition. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

Sarrazin was remembered by his brother Pierre for his "wicked sense of wit," but fans might recall his "soulful eyes." Canadian actor Michael Sarrazin dies at 70 2011-04-20T17:27:08Z

Yet the Wodehouse, for all its airy wit, is not about nothing: It too is a story of deception, only in this case the kind that delivers delicious comeuppance to the puffed-up and slow-witted. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Gordon was at ease in his nine appearances alongside Ripa, where he showed his quick wit and comfort as the interviewer. Jeff Gordon interested in joining 'Live' with Kelly Ripa 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

The monologue anticipates the mood of the book — the candor, wit and weariness. ‘100 Boyfriends’ Tells Lewd and Lonely Stories of Desire and Heartbreak 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

With a wry wit, an amiable mien and a flexible morality, Ames was a natural spy. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“He was very learned, well-read and intellectual,” Pogue said, and a great wit and storyteller who was often the last to leave a party. 'L.A. Law' Actor Larry Drake Dies At 66 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

There are fewer still who understand that Americans are the “lucky us,” the anointed ones who can shuck the past again and again until, by dint of wit and will, we reinvent ourselves. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo

Imagine King Lear rewritten by Oscar Wilde and you get the sense of a piece in which wit and cynicism jostle with madness amid a raging storm. The Moment of Truth – review 2013-07-01T17:08:20Z

Law & Order" series, said the "script is smart, is fun, there is real wit between them. William, Kate TV movie being shot in Romania 2011-05-30T10:46:04Z

But, unlike life, its wit and brio keep us temporarily more alive than we usually allow ourselves to be.” Spare Times for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

The tightly wound humor and tragedy of her stories, delivered in prose that never draws attention to its graceful wit, demonstrate that every unremarkable family, wrapped in proud insularity, is special. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Here, Oguri cowers and crumples, like Golum from “Lord of the Rings,” as Ms. Steinberg paces around him, showing a flash of wit by using the snipped stem of a sunflower as a cane. Review: Arcane Collective Turns a Beckett Trilogy Into Physical Theater 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

"Few could match his wit and wisdom. He often laughed at politicians. He sometimes laughed with them. However, he never ever sneered at them," he added. Guardian journalist Hoggart dies 2014-01-06T17:42:10Z

“London Assurance” has occasional wit and a tidy resolution. Review: ‘London Assurance’ Minds Its Manners 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Rushdie’s wit surfaces once in a while, to remind you that a human is driving this machine, that his feet still touch dirt and asphalt. Salman Rushdie’s Prose Joins the Circus in ‘The Golden House’ 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The alternative, of course, would be for Cowell to pack up his acerbic wit and quit the UK altogether. 2010-01-12T09:52:00Z

Never at a loss, Orton's wit, following in Wilde's footsteps, relies on paradox to send up conventional morality. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It also aims for the trenchant political wit of Tom Stoppard in his “Rock ‘n’ Roll” mode, and Gogol’s blithe way with bureaucratic satire. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Her brainy and frazzled women are at the ends of their wits. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Mind you, wit is not the same as humor, though the play, an Ars Nova production, gets its share of big laughs. Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

As fine as some of those performances have been, no one has accurately captured her throaty, sotto voce verbal style or mordant wit. There are many Gloria Steinems in ‘The Glorias.’ One of them was my boss. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Despite the smirky wit and rogue attitude that gave Bond the superficial appearance of a rebel, he was a government employee furthering the interests of the remains of the British empire. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z

Bond is so exactly on the mark that he seems the limber, chuckle-inducing incarnation of physical wit. Cedar Lake hits notes both light and light and dark in Seattle | Dance review 2012-11-16T20:29:55Z

Barnes writes with elegance and wit, probes motives with a novelist’s imagination but also a historian’s skepticism, plucking memorable formulations — enhanced by his own deft translations — from letters, journals and newspaper squibs. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kudrow, ordinarily so deft at puncturing her characters’ vanity with her own wit, does not lift this one out of the realm of spiteful caricature. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z

But they flicker with wit, truth and sensuality. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

That devil’s-walking-stick wit was famous at the University of Alabama, where Lee ran the college humor magazine and wrote a regular column for the student newspaper called “Caustic Comment.” When Harper Lee Doodled in Shakespeare Class 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

There may be nothing terribly original in the insights at which his play arrives, but the road to revelation is a marvel of theatrical wit and ingenuity. ‘Cineastas’ and ‘O Jardim’ at Under the Radar 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Folks won’t see The Dictator for its political sentiments; they’ll go for the rambunctious wit, and because Baron Cohen has paraded his character on every TV show short of Cash Cab. Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh 2012-05-14T14:30:51Z

Sex is never far away here, but not always broached with wit. Dan Clark ? review 2011-04-11T17:30:52Z

The drapes are closed and considered looks are exchanged in a scenario whose cartoonish wit, crowded domesticity, and faintly sinister air are common in Sohier’s images of pets and their owners. The Mysterious Relationship Between Pets and Their Owners 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Smith’s wit, and her wise regard of race and class in London and around the globe, make her five novels a perfect follow-up to Mills. Dear Match Book: Authors I Can Binge-Read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

There is some dry wit, too: the performers constantly build human towers, as if aspiring to get closer to heaven. How Like an Angel – review 2012-06-29T17:00:01Z

Carolyn is also a winning character with a quick wit, and the opulent environs she inhabits are definitely worth a visit. ‘The Price of Inheritance,’ by Karin Tanabe

But the show has some wit and also a few modern touches. Television Review: ‘1600 Penn,’ on NBC, With Pullman, Gad and Elfman 2013-01-09T18:12:03Z

As for Amy herself, her diary reveals a woman whose wit is both excitingly barbed and a bit scary. “Gone Girl”: Marriage can be murder 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z

It is full of variety, wit and seriousness. British Art Show 7: have I got spews for you 2010-10-25T20:30:00Z

In Amiri Baraka’s poem, Young is “the slickster walking through the crowd/surviving on a terrifying wit” in “the jungle the jungle the jungle/ we living in.” Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z

The initial days unfold at a vacation’s leisurely pace, without much happening but with plenty of wit and trenchant observation. Review | Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Virtually every pop songwriter employs them today, but in a comedy song arguing for traditional grammar, they dull the precision of the wit. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Best chosen language = greatest powers of the mind, most thorough knowledge, human nature, liveliness, wit, humour, world. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z

They began to work together and the director was smitten: "That combination of wit and heart, which is what you need in a Juliet, seemed sort of irresistible to me." Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet' 2013-04-01T14:43:07Z

They chimed in loudly and often — with kind words for my column’s wit and compassion, but they weren’t shy with their criticism, either. Social Q?s: Social Q?s Looks Back on Its Questions and Answers 2011-11-04T20:34:33Z

Dublin’s fresh tea offerings include expanded products, from hibiscus to matcha, often delivered with Irish wit. Bellying up to Ireland’s other famed brew: Tea 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t arrive on Aeaea until more than halfway through the novel, but then Miller plays their verbal sparring with a delightful mix of wit and lust. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Sam is an introspective guy with a dry wit, somewhat the black sheep amid a sprawling, garrulous extended family of New York Italian-Americans. “Amira & Sam”: Meet the rom-com antidote to “American Sniper” 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

But only one member of the cast captures the dry vermouth wit that has made March’s original poem an enduringly droll period classic. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

For a reason that bears only passing logic, another plant entirely has taken the rap for the ragweed, to wit, the goldenrod. This valuable plant looks like ragweed, but allergy sufferers can breathe easy 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

You can chuckle at the wit in the music. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Oh, I don’t know — wit, fun, sexual tension, risk, originality. | 'Knight and Day': Opposites Attract: Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz 2010-06-22T22:10:00Z

Then again, bypassing the nuts and bolts of Rivers’s life let the singer put her own sardonic wit to great use. Nellie McKay Blossoms Under Pressure From Joan Rivers’s Lawyers 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Once there, they have to use their wits and charm, and their knowledge of the movie-within-the-movie’s plot, to escape back to their own world. Television Review: ‘Teen Beach Movie’ Goes Back to the Future 2013-07-18T21:44:52Z

The plays were freighted with sadness, cruelty and regret – but made sparkling and joyous by Walsh's heartstopping verbal acrobatics and often ludicrous wit. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z

In both worlds, his wit and good nature made him many friends, even, unexpectedly, among management. Norman Collier obituary 2013-03-19T12:33:06Z

Instead, I thought of Edward Albee, for the merciless wit, and Sophocles, for the Oedipal anxiety. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

But as performed with insouciant wit and indefatigable physicality by the attractive and flamboyantly costumed young members of the Flea’s resident acting ensemble, the Bats, “Restoration Comedy” celebrates a libertine spirit that’s hard to deny. | ‘Restoration Comedy’: ‘Restoration Comedy’ by Amy Freed at the Flea Theater 2012-12-25T22:30:02Z

This collection of Ellison’s correspondence is an essential book that presents the author of “Invisible Man” in all his candor, seriousness, outrage and wit. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Children’s books, she once said, are “the key to the accumulated wisdom, wit, gossip, truth, myth, history, philosophy, and recipes for salting potatoes during the past 6,000 years of civilization.” E. L. Konigsburg, Author, Is Dead at 83 2013-04-23T02:33:47Z

The script hews closely to the version that Dickens himself toured, with passages of prose narration that cut the goose-fat sentimentality with keen wit and gimlet detail. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

She has sharp wit, emotional integrity and, frankly, the guts to go the extreme places that playing a suicidal person demands. From slappers to Hedda Gabler: the irresistible rise of Sheridan Smith 2013-03-18T18:12:48Z

Quintessential Pulp mix of wit, acuity, pathos & bile relayed in irresistibly anthemic style. @redlikejungle A song that conjures infinitely more visceral imagery than the middling movie it was written for. Pulp: a beginner's guide 2012-12-20T09:26:21Z

Italian artist Gallo’s wild wit turns up in three solo pieces, including “Follow,” which skewers Twitter narcissism with its depiction of a trendy, duck-headed woman snapping a picture of herself in a mirror. Strange critters: In July, Seattle art galleries contain menageries 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

There’s no room, in this rendition of strife, for the usual shading and wit and flexible scale of Ms. Swift’s songwriting. Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

In between museums and tours, however, there was levity — the kind that comes from traveling with a 16-year-old whose emerging dry wit makes even a disappointing visit to Harpers Ferry, W.Va., entertaining. An aunt hits the road with her niece and nephew 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Dudamel’s recordings of those works with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra often lack the breadth of Beethoven’s sound — the wit and joy alongside the darkness of, say, the Fifth. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

This is especially disappointing given the conceptual wit, visual flair and bonkers imagination of “The Lego Movie” and the sweet silliness of “The Lego Batman Movie.” Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Her cutting wit, which she underscores with a sharply raised eyebrow, comes through occasionally. Katy Tur Is Tougher Than She Looks 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

But there are plenty of other options, including, yes, Woodley, who effortlessly puts across her cancer-stricken heroine's goofy gallows humor, raw-edged wit and despairing nihilism in the commercial hit "The Fault in Our Stars." 'Unbroken' could stir Oscar acting pot 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The second symphony unfurls with an ease that becomes more disturbing as, from behind the wit and tunefulness, emerge flashes of heartbroken nostalgia and martial terror. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

While just two pieces in the Blue Book collection derive directly from Schlumberger designs, the entire suite seems infused with his exploratory spirit, instinctive feel for organic forms and wit. At Tiffany, Something New Inside the Blue Box 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

After his parents divorced, he and his brother lived on their wits, so hungry they sometimes survived by stealing food. Norman Wisdom's funeral open to all on the Isle of Man 2010-10-22T13:37:00Z

“She will be missed not only as a beacon of light in these difficult times but for her razor sharp wit and extraordinary humanity. She taught us all so much. I will miss her deeply.” Media celebrates Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life, legacy 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

Episode 5 struggles with bloat: There are plenty of intriguing characters, but less depth and less wit. 'Broadchurch' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: The Center Collapses 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

“A great operatic career lies in his sights,” Rupert Christiansen wrote in a five-star review of that performance in The Telegraph, “if he keeps his wits about him.” Vittorio Grigolo, Star Tenor, Fired for ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star But what’s kept him from becoming a mainstream leading man — the cranky impudence, the lacerating British wit — is precisely what makes him so attractive. T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z

Alexander Woollcott, the taste-making critic at the New Yorker, recruited Harpo to join the famed gathering of wits around the Algonquin Round Table. The movie Salvador Dali wanted to make with the Marx Brothers didn’t happen – until now (sort of) 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

He reminds you of the indispensability of wit to understanding. Dick Gregory, a Humorist With Many Passions and a Singular Gift 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

His limbs seem to flutter without regard to propriety or one another; his voice leaps from dudgeon to delight in huge swoops of emotion; his wit lashes out in pyrotechnical displays of snap and swish. Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Thorgerson was an impish visionary, a charming figure of bodily droop and deadpan wit. Review: ‘Taken by Storm,’ About the Mind Behind a Design 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

One of Philadelphia’s brightest new hip-hop stars, this 28-year-old artist comes from a city steeped in a battle rap tradition that rewards sharp rhymes and quick wit, but he is just as nimble with melody. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The attack is humane but headlong; the background reading is prodigious and pertinent; the evidence is marshalled with vigour and rigour; and the writing is laced with a casual, populist wit. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z

Gore Vidal's quick wit and acid tongue made him a sought-after commentator. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z

RIP Garry- your great dry wit will crack up the angels. Garry Shandling, Star of Groundbreaking Sitcoms, Dies at 66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mailer is crudely direct, mistakes abuse for wit, and openly invites a punch in the nose. Review: ‘The Jeweler’s Eye,’ by William F. Buckley Jr. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Take Stig Of The Dump: the big-boned, laddish MC has battled on the streets of Newcastle with style and wit for eight years to attain the status of local hero. Bang On! The new regional sound of British hip-hop 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

This is an old-fashioned comedy served up by top pros, with Lane standing in as dean of this college of wits. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Wodehouse, wonderfully captures the late British humorist’s renowned wit. ‘Jeeves in Bloom’ a valentine to Wodehouse fans 2013-02-11T19:39:34Z

The central plot of “Parallel Mothers” is vintage Almodóvar: a skein of reversals, revelations, surprises and coincidences unraveled with style, wit and feeling. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Before he says that out loud, Ozzie distinguishes himself as being the group's razor wit and anchor to sanity. "That '90s Show" is here to remind Boomers, Gen X and Millennials that we're all alright 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

To wit: a ballroom full of Washington media types, advertisers and a few celebrities schmoozing with the same government officials, including the president, that the media types are supposed to be holding to account. Ethical optics remain cloudy at White House correspondents’ dinner 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

First, though, he has to match wits and blows with a shady consortium of Hong Kong martial arts schools and the corrupt British government representatives cracking the state whip. | 'Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster': This Martial Artist?s Fists Never Leave His Body 2011-01-27T22:47:34Z

I’m not saying artists should give up using wit to reinterpret the Holocaust’s atrocity. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

In the Aria I duet, Maria Kowroski played the ballerina’s amazing back-arches and other acrobatic feats with a new quality of wry wit. Dance Review: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky at New York City Ballet 2013-06-06T20:20:40Z

His new novel, “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,” is weightier, more focused and considerably more melancholy, but it still exhibits the author’s impish wit and his fondness for tangled stories. Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman

Only Lightoller and his fellow midlevel officers keep their wits about them, calmly directing an evacuation that they know will be too late for many of the passengers and perhaps themselves. DVD: Titanic Film ?A Night to Remember? From Criterion 2012-04-01T03:45:43Z

The sting and snap of Carter's delivery made her a natural for Albee's coruscating wit. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The new translation, by Michael Feingold, often sparkles with flashes of contemporary wit. In ‘The Killer,’ Ionesco’s Everyman Seeks a Source of Evil 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

The writing is decent, with flashes of sideways wit. Syfy's 'Almighty Johnsons' an amiable take on Norse gods 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Live10pm, BBC2 Over its five preceding weeks, I'm In A Rock'n'Roll Band has solicited wit and wisdom from guitarists, bassists, singers and drummers about what makes a great band. Doctor Who 2010-06-05T05:45:00Z

Here she uses that wit, gently but insistently, like a hygienist with a curet, to scrape away the social surface of her marriage. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

If film lines don’t stick the way they used to, Mr. Mark said, it is not for lack of wit and wisdom in Hollywood. Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello 2010-10-19T22:25:00Z

That's why the actress is dedicated to telling her story, her way — always with her dry wit, and frequently through 1990s nostalgia. Lauren Graham rethinks identity, from writing to directing: "I want to be the one to tell the story" 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Melvin Abston as Sebastian, the Caribbean crab, delivers "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl" with the wit and verve of his cartoon predecessor while resembling, in his charming colonial costume, George Washington dyed red. Ariel version 2.0: 'The Little Mermaid' splashes into La Mirada Theatre with an updated story 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Throughout the Trump campaign and subsequent presidency, Stephen Colbert on CBS’s “The Late Show” has consistently used his satirical wit to just state what needs to be said. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Released by Paramount Pictures between 1930 and 1935, these are works of breathtaking formal beauty, profound moral philosophy and devastating wit. DVD: Marlene Dietrich?s ?Dishonored? and ?Shanghai Express? 2012-03-04T04:13:02Z

Closer in spirit to a down-budget Off Broadway revue than to the wit and snap of “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Eternity: The Movie” has three basic strains of humor. ‘Eternity: The Movie’ Spoofs the Rockumentary 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Danny had no magic powers, only his wits and cleverness to get him out of scrapes — making him a true hero for a kid to look up to. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Serve with a smirk and your best impression of the piquant wit of Roger Sterling. Party like mad... Or at least like Mad Men might 2012-03-07T17:57:08Z

To wit, she had heard that Mr. Achatz didn’t think much of her. After Culinary and Literary Acclaim, She’s Moving to the Woods 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

With his trash-talking and sardonic wit, Piper was a popular draw with older audiences. Clip joint: wrestlers who act 2013-07-10T11:16:19Z

Rumi’s works reflected a broader push and pull between religious spirituality and institutionalized faith—though with a wit that was unmatched. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Just a few years later, audiences might plausibly expect Stath to simply batter everyone in his path but it is just as fun seeing him forced to survive on his wits alone. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

As he often does, Oliver explained the intricacies of this complex policy issue with wit and humor, much to the alarm of voters everywhere. Late-night TV tackles gerrymandering: John Oliver leaves viewers with glimmer of hope but ignores solution 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

In this story he limited his father's intelligence and wit; in , on the other hand, he suggested that the same wit was boundless. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

The telecast was also the last in a hosting trilogy by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, whose wit and insider/outsider insight have done much to improve the show's entertainment value and status. Golden Globes 2015: A surprisingly mature broadcast 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The paradox at the center of it all, of course, is Usher himself, whose brazen theatricality and caustic wit lies beneath his meek exterior. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

To wit: for Beyoncé’s entrance onto the pageant stage in “Pretty Hurts,” Ms. Akerlund selected a pair of vintage 1920s bunny ears because, she thought, they “brought some sense of innocence to her character.” The Stylist B. Akerlund on Her Looks for Beyoncé and Other Stars 2013-12-19T01:04:06Z

Indeed, such was quality of the wit of the two hosts, the award ceremony should be nominated for some sort of writing gong itself next year. Fey and Poehler: Dream double act 2014-01-13T05:26:45Z

Street art is getting inspiration from the coronavirus pandemic gripping the globe, offering some comic relief, wit and beauty in a world where people are cut off from each other. AP PHOTOS: Street art offers beauty, a laugh, some hope 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Most of “It’s All Relative” is a mixture of narrative, research, reflection and often-effortful wit. In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs Shakes the Family Tree 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

It’s a sensitive, probing and uncommonly wise volume that will send you back into Roth’s work with fresh eyes and wits. Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

His quick wit and self-deprecating humor set him apart from the others. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

The discovery of its young lovers that it is better to cultivate one's garden than roam the world in search of adventure was also expressed with infinitely more wit and musical resourcefulness in Bernstein's Candide. Theatre review 2010-06-10T00:56:00Z

“There is no writer better equipped — by dint of erudition, wit, and forcefulness — to fill the role of critic for The Atlantic.” Leon Wieseltier Joins The Atlantic 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

From this eccentric premise, the plot of “The Arrest” settles quickly into an odd stasis, sustained only by the cerebral wit of Lethem’s voice. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

More often, they crackle with a droll wit. Jérôme Bel: Naked and Alive, Then Clothed and Dead 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

I loved the wit and fearlessness of her writing and her performance, and after the show I ambushed her at the stage door. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Based on his newspaper serial about his steamship voyage in 1867 to Europe and the Middle East, Innocents Abroad abounds with Twain's characteristic wit. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z

Good Hair shows Rock all grown up, a confident comedian who can handle serious subjects with wit and style. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z

She doesn’t carry the flippancy and the wit as much as the men do. Director Maria Aitken, keeping Coward’s blithe spirit alive

Over his long, stellar career, Laurents' caustic wit and brutal candor famously alienated many of his colleagues. 'West Side Story': A classic revived 2012-01-08T04:11:44Z

To wit, the owners don’t do small plates. Review | At Ruta del Vino, refreshing takes on Latin food — with nary a small plate in sight 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

To wit, Science Gallery recently received a Google.org grant to expand worldwide—so stay tuned for more “art science” to come, and start sprinkling the phrase in cocktail-party conservation. Buzzwords: "Art Science" Is the Newest Art-World Trend 2012-06-01T10:45:47Z

Proclaiming that every scurvy brigand is at heart just a Broadway gypsy between shows, it's the score's main example of roistering wit. 'Tangled' Movie Review: Disney Excels with Rapunzel Remake 2010-12-01T16:55:00Z

And when in doubt, they turn the camera on the remarkably likable Brown, whose Enola shows wit and pluck while exploring London’s demimonde. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in September 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The many pleasures of this novel include its empathy and poker-faced wit, and the charms of its main character. A Short Girl, Feeling Unseen, Fixates on a Boy Who Vanished 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

An introductory scene finds Artemis matching wits with a therapist and quickly besting his knowledge of antiques. ‘Artemis Fowl’ Review: Fowl, Not Fair 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

His talents were united by a ferocious intelligence that expressed itself with marvellous lucidity and malicious wit. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z

Granted, Tyson is a notorious deadpan wit, and that drug money remark might have been a joke. "The Hangover 2's" Mel Gibson hypocrisy 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z

The bandit swaps identities with his hostage and becomes mayor, only to find himself locked in a battle of wits against a corrupt businessman who made his fortune from tobacco and human trafficking. Chinese director coy on political satire's message 2011-01-11T14:49:09Z

That preoccupation — along with a delightfully omnipresent, biting wit — emerges again in “Gloria.” Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Their titles — “The Living End,” “The Doom Generation,” “Nowhere” and one that can’t be printed here — evoke the basic attitude, if not the full measure, of Mr. Araki’s furious wit. | 'Kaboom': End of the World? Maybe. First, Sex. 2011-01-27T23:23:13Z

His dialogue throughout “Time Stands Still” crackles with bright wit and intelligence, but it is almost always an expression of the characters’ personalities, not a function of the author’s need to dazzle and entertain. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z

The secret codes, the homosexual characters, the intrigue, the arch wit of the narrative. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z

She brought poise, a quick wit and a sense of inner strength to those earlier roles. Teyonah Parris Didn’t Get ‘WandaVision’ at First, Either 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

They have a slow drawl but quick wits, and they’re not just literate but literary, in a particularly southern way. 'Pretty accurate': S-Towners are proud to be podcasted – except for a few things 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Only this show's criminals are cynicism, outsized egos and bad taste, all of which Hank handles with a straight-razor wit and via means that are entirely within the law. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Her works, full of wit and rigor, unfolded on rooftops and rafts and even on the sides of buildings as well as in lofts and galleries, and later on proscenium stages. Sending the Trisha Brown Legacy Back Into the World 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

He is quick with self-deprecating wit, and also quick to laugh. Atlanta's Robert Spano, familiar to 'Ring' fans, conducts Seattle Symphony 2010-04-21T22:58:00Z

“On every page, Lodato’s prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit.” Paperback Row 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

But what's fresh is the energy, wit and pride radiating from the first Broadway tuner to celebrate modern Hispanic-American culture in all its vibrancy and aspiration. Review: Vivacious, zesty 'In the Heights' ? on tour stop in Seattle ? has plenty of high points 2010-10-01T20:49:00Z

Tributes were posted online from Gary Numan, who called Gill “a unique talent,” to Tom Morello, who called Gill “one of my principal influences” and hailed his “incendiary art and wry wit.” Andy Gill, guitarist for punk band Gang of Four, has died 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Such extreme, noisy fantasies of embattled pseudo-manhood might work as parody if they showed any genuine wit. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z

Tall, lanky and blond, Browne was a cerebral and eccentric character with a penchant for red socks – they were easy to match, he explained – and an acerbic wit befitting his grandfather’s cousin, Oscar Wilde. Photographer of iconic burning monk photo dies 2012-08-28T14:24:00Z

These harried parents and their children are drawn with real sensitivity, and despite how horribly some of them act, he doesn’t sacrifice anyone on the altar of his wit. Review | Parents will stop at nothing to get their kids into a prestigious school 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The paintings themselves are the best evidence — even through the mediation of a home screen, their vibrancy, wit and formal command is thrilling — but the intellectual and cultural context is fascinating too. ‘Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint’ Review: What Did She See, and When? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

He does light and wit too, as his Handel proves. In praise of ? David McVicar 2010-04-28T23:05:00Z

“He deals with the materiality of words and language. He has irony and has a great wit. He is funny. And, always, Lawrence says it best.” At the Kitchen’s Spring Gala, John Cale and Lawrence Weiner Inspire and Provoke 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

This is a thoughtful group with wit and character. In the Country: Sunset Sunrise – review 2013-03-14T22:20:01Z

On the contrary, his career has been based on creatively pushing the boundaries between comedic wit, personal narratives, informative analysis and ironic insight. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

But its twee tendencies are redeemed by great virtues: wit, confidence, formal invention and, most of all, a willingness to root its allusions in character and story, and bring everything back to friendship and feeling. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z

Those “miscellaneous pieces” — especially when coupled with the “Selected Letters” and the “Letters to Monica” — showcase a poet-critic of dry, delicious wit, equal to A.E. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth

What a joy it is to hear, translated into my own voice and rhythms, the crispness and grace of Gallant’s sentences; the sparkle of her wit; the accuracy of her descriptions. Mavis Gallant’s Magic Tricks 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The author’s latest collection of stories confronts the beauty and violence of daily life with mordant wit and a focus on the flesh. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

That it's also so dramatically effective is credit to both Turner's wit and Fortune's skill. Not too Posh to push pop: when music rocks theatre 2012-07-26T13:53:53Z

Our discourse is so toxic, so empty, and you managed to navigate it with wit and humor and authenticity. Thank you, Jon Stewart: You had a big stage in a broken world — and you used it to say something important 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Luckily, Ms. Lauren navigates the text’s melancholy lulls and harrowing depths with devastating force and even an occasional flash of wit, her regal bearing only gradually giving way to despair. Theater Review: ‘Trojan Women (After Euripides)’ at BAM Next Wave Festival 2012-11-29T22:29:32Z

Touted as Si Newhouse’s whiz kid, Brown always seemed convinced that her talents and wit would win the day. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

The demon brings with him some creepy minions, a few of whom — homicidal gingerbread men and hungry predators with the faces of porcelain dolls — provide the movie’s only real moments of freakiness and wit. Review: In ‘Krampus,’ the Holiday Involves a Demonic Santa 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

"At a dinner table and on a film set she lifted us all with wisdom and wit mixed with love for us and love for life," Hanks said of her. The words and stories of Nora Ephron 2012-06-27T11:03:31Z

He laughed easily, refuted when necessary and shocked his guest with his mischievous wit. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

“It was very important for us to give readers the feeling that fashion was something they could have a lot more agency in their experience wit,” Ms. France said. Up Close: Kim France, Former Lucky Editor, Turns Blogger 2012-05-30T17:13:29Z

There is a sad undertow, which the novel had, as well as plenty of surface wit, also from the novel. A grittier 'Grit': Talent upgrade matches classic novel 2010-12-21T14:49:00Z

The poet’s letters cast light on a generous soul with an active social life and a quicksilver wit. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Characters perish, but without any great wit or design, and in fits and starts. Prometheus has landed … to mixed atmospheric readings 2012-06-01T13:59:40Z

The melancholy “Dream English Kid” may not have the outward-facing joy of “Fiorucci,” nor the exacting wit of his cabinet of curiosities. Mark Leckey Captures the Exuberance of Pre-‘Brexit’ Britain 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

She was highly observant and there were flashes of wit, well demonstrated in her long letters. Kitty Godley obituary 2011-01-19T18:04:09Z

One silly, one sane; both endorsed by Thomas and his sardonic, furious-paced wit. Radio review: Mark Thomas ? The Manifesto 2011-01-07T07:59:01Z

That acid wit makes “How to Be Safe” particularly unnerving. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

But there was a sharpness of wit and an offstage vulnerability that were disarming. Elaine Stritch: There was nothing like this dame

That said, he has plenty of lively points to offer, and he offers them with consummate wit and flair. The gulf between spirited sex and everyday life 2013-01-30T19:32:25Z

As it says on the poster, they are "back for war", ie making a warlike reappearance for more of the same: this sets the keynote of rather modest wit and wordplay. The Expendables 2 – review 2012-08-16T14:29:00Z

The dexterity of Headley’s wit is evident right there in her title, “The Mere Wife.” Review | The most surprising novel this year is a modern-day ‘Beowulf’ minus the macho hero 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

For all his self-possession and wit, however, Ali could be cruel and unsparing. Muhammad Ali: A superstar before the word meant anything 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

That leaves a nice opening for perpetual scene-stealer Everett to dominate his few moments of screen time with wry wit and solid laughs. Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O 2012-05-15T14:30:20Z

“He has been able to use wit — or mockery, or impersonation, or irony — to try to govern every disastrous situation he is in.” Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z

His bluster has power, the profane wit is tart, and the conscience that plagues LBJ rings absolutely true. Review | The agony and ecstasy of LBJ are revived in ‘The Great Society’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

She calls Mr. Simpson one of the “true visionaries,” whose wit and genius for color and balance never fails to move people. Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z

The Pat Hobby stories lack Fitzgerald’s characteristic lyricism, and perhaps for that might be read as mercenary or hackwork; but what they lack in beauty, they make up for in wit and pathos. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z

From the start, his tone is one of mournful candor with a trace of straight-faced wit. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

I'm expecting acerbic wit, unsentimental tenderness and a Black Country setting – what could be better? Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

But he finally opened up that day to cope as he counted down the hours to a crucial scan, a post that made him feel exposed, wit and irreverence being more his style. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z

In other words, she is intentionally flat, a feature that Aduba’s nuanced performance leans into with wit and grit, making Clyde a rarity for a Black woman actress: an antihero. What Three Broadway Shows Tell Us About Racial Progress 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

He got on not so much by his wits as by his charm, and with youthful avidity he took in everything he saw and heard. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The English are renowned for an ironic take on class and tradition — and who better to bring a touch of wit to the royal household than Henry Holland. Special Report: Fashion: Catherine Versus Kate 2011-02-20T18:15:49Z

Ms. Vanderpump ordered tea at the Plaza, but on the show she’s best known for spilling it, aided by her quick wit and way with a bon mot. Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The mess/Messiah play on words is so simple, the sort of lame dad joke that a regular civilian might make, not an Oxbridge wit. Monty Python film director Terry Jones: full of fun and innocence – and a very naughty boy 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Traveling around the country feels completely safe in a group, as long as you keep your wits about you, and remain polite. Encountering Another Jamaica 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

His many travails have clearly not dulled his mordant wit — “Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!” — or his inner turmoil. His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

"His biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary," the board said. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z

“Happily Ever Afters” will sweep readers away with its breezy wit, heartfelt sensitivity and effervescent charm. 6 Y.A. Love Stories to Add to Your Reading List 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Brydon added that they were given a framework, which they "colored in" with their jovial conversations, laced with dry humor and acerbic wit. Coogan, Brydon embark on culinary odyssey in 'The Trip to Italy' 2014-01-26T00:08:02Z

It may not be earth-shakingly original, but its combination of wit, style and touch are Segal’s own and award it an irrefutable integrity. At the Met, a Canvas Ahead of Its Time 2011-07-14T22:50:44Z

But his wits are keeping his little band of escapees alive—at least for now. Motherlode Blog: Five Key Parenting Lessons from ‘Game of Thrones’ 2013-06-09T22:00:43Z

And Last: Being blessed with the gift of sharp wit, I decided to enter a bit. Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The wit and whimsy of the Leibers’ work will be celebrated at the East Hampton Library on June 23. The Leibers Are Gone. But Their Bling Is Back. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The most dispiriting thing about “Something Borrowed” is that with a little more art, craft and wit it could have been a lot better, maybe even good. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z

If Ephron was known for anything beyond her impeccable wit, it was her love of food, which often made its way into her writing. 8 fascinating facts about Nora Ephron 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

To wit: Oxford’s New College was last considered “new” in the 14th century. 36 Hours in Oxford, England 2012-05-31T14:10:43Z

But the mush outweighs the wit, with episodes ending on tides of sentiment: Derek mourning a favorite patient’s death; the residents, asleep after a party, dreaming home-movie dreams of their younger selves. Television Review: ‘Derek’ Stars Ricky Gervais as a Nursing Home Volunteer 2013-09-11T18:28:54Z

To wit: Documentaries, less prone to big deals, have this year shown their usual wide range. Sundance 2015: 'Dope,' 'Earl' and the festival of many bets 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

“To speak for myself, I think she is adorable, and I admire her wit and candor,” Ms. Punyaratabandhu wrote in an email. Chrissy Teigen: A Model With a Hearty Appetite 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Attempting to combine a convincing exploration of practical moral philosophy with sitcom wit and narrative drive was always likely to lead to the odd wheelspin. The Good Place: was this the most devastating TV finale ever? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nail maintains a strong Geordie accent — a Newcastle dialect that sounds a bit like Scottish by way of Scandinavia — and an unshakable gravity, even as he deploys a dry, deflating wit. Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Was it the wit of the name coined by Ms. Noland that made it irresistible to present-day buyers? Auctions: Fortune Smiles on Abstract Art 2011-11-10T12:00:07Z

The race will likely come down to “Green Book” and “The Favourite,” and the latter’s malicious wit gives it the edge. Oscars 2019 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Live performances of “Inherit the Windbag” — a play about the matching of wits between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley by Petri, a Washington Post columnist — are not assured by the August target date. D.C. area theaters are mixed on reopening this year 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

A friend whose dry wit, touching on everything from electoral politics to women’s equality, is more than just banter: It also punctuates intellectual points and helps frame opinions. Fact or Farce? Alexandra Petri Thinks ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

At first, it’s all in good fun—Jones turns on them one by one, and, using her superior wit, destroys their entire existence. The Shameful Trolling of Leslie Jones 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

That way you can truly appreciate their wit, pathos and imagination. Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

As it happens, the two 20th-century works on Sunday brilliantly outshone the others in wit, ingenuity and sophistication. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Mary Richards was the smiling, friendly side of 1970s feminism in the women’s liberation era: she got by on charm, brains, wit, talent and hard work. Mary Tyler Moore: a true cultural icon who changed the face of television 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

The director Wilson Yip and the martial arts choreographer Sammo Hung supplement the fist-flying action with flashes of wit and ingenuity. Stream These 8 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in July 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

His work is full of life, wit, pace and inventiveness, next to which most things, however good their intentions, pall. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z

Even the grueling agony of "Breaking Bad" and the dark wit of "Dexter" have nothing on Matthew Weiner's exquisitely rendered portrait of fragile souls trapped in the lives of repressed longing. The Emmys: Who should win? 2010-08-28T00:20:00Z

But, in a rare flourish of wit, Faber instead named himself as his own partner. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

He was, though, an astonishingly entertaining conversationalist, in public and private, with some claim to be the most consistent wit since Oscar Wilde. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z

The commercial imperative is to put everything up on the screen, and most filmmakers don’t have the wit or imagination to make the devastation of a major city look fresh or interesting. Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z

The triumph of this production lies in the imagination and wit with which these potentially tricky masques are handled. The Fairy Queen – review 2012-07-24T15:30:01Z

The wisdom and sincerity is humbling, but the septuagenarian retains his wit. Kris Kristofferson – review 2012-12-05T19:47:56Z

Rivers was known for her acerbic wit, cosmetic surgeries and classic put downs. Joan Rivers' doctor not currently working at New York clinic 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a harrowing story told with gentleness and wit. New Self-Help Books for Pet Parents 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

To wit, some responses that hold the high ground: Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The casualties of a family at war 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

The range of films at LFF shows wit, invention, great acting and great passion for cinema but what are we going to do with it? London film festival second week ? review 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

It is substantially goofier, trading wit for camp and channeling its rock star vibes more expressly than before. Bad romance: The problem with "Thor" is that the MCU is better at thunder than love 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The novel compares more than favourably in wit, sophistication and social insight with these movies. One Day ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:52Z

It takes honesty and self-deprecating wit to tell the same stories other new moms could tell, but not as well. 'Making Babies': into the unknown country of motherhood 2012-05-09T21:13:05Z

Overflowing with charm, crackling with wit and containing just the right amount of vinegar, Cusack entrances as much with her vocal beauty as with her pungent smart talk. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Such is the case in Will Eno's five playlets, which taps into this with wit and compassion. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-08-03T23:05:34Z

It's the source of much of the production’s wit, especially in the hands of Brown. 'Brothers Size' thrills with wit, vibrancy at Fountain Theatre 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Hester, played with tremendous wit and elegance by Ms. Maxwell in one of her finest performances, has her manicured hands firmly on the levers of power as the play opens, in 1979. Theater Review: ‘City of Conversation’ Charts a Sea Change in Washington 2014-05-06T02:00:01Z

Thank you for pointing out the obvious . . . with wit. Ask Amy: Dysfunctional relationship should not progress to marriage 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Their styles are quite different, but all are unsatisfying, and the dancing only occasionally matches the dark wit and emotional complexity of Mr. Tcherniakov’s storytelling. Review: ‘Iolanta’ and ‘The Nutcracker,’ Reunited Naturalistically at the Paris Opera 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

He declared her born for the role “by personality, wit, temperament.” Patrice Munsel, Soprano Who as a Teenager Won a Met Contract, Dies at 91 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

The actress turned comedian began her career in the 1950s, but soon became known for her biting wit in her standup comedy, becoming an inspiration for many more funny women. Watch Joan River's 60 Years of Work in 2 Minutes 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“As played with unfaltering bravura and wit by Robert Morse, he is a rumpled, dimpled angel with a streak of Lucifer.” Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The four characters of this early work by Mr. McDonagh, an Anglo-Irish dramatist with a wit as hard and black as anthracite coal, also appear to have grown a few sizes. Review: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’: Oh Gosh, I’ve Turned Into My Mother 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

With razor-sharp wit, Megan Fairchild, puffing away on a cigarette and then clearing the air with the silky wave of a hand, brought the glamour of a 1940s chorus girl to her debut. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The chasm between what we say we are and what we really are in the digital age presides like the hangman’s arch over two seasons of drama and wit. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

One senses that the king himself has to be implicated somehow in the nesting doll of Jonson’s wit. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Gone Girl,” was Flynn’s third novel, as full of the author's trademark twists, wry wit, and often devastating insight into the female experience as its predecessors "Dark Places" and "Sharp Objects." How the scathing "Gone Girl" rant about being the "cool girl" defined the decade 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Perhaps most impressive about Tuesday’s premiere was how the balance of woe and wit extended into nearly every aspect of the production. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

In Denk’s mercurial reading, the individual vignettes were highly characterized yet also unified by the pianist’s inimitable sensibility — a sensibility alive to the work’s poetry, wit, impulsiveness and off-beat yet irresistible charm. Denk shows range in ‘iPod shuffle’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

A slave in the 17th century must ply her wits as cleverly as an African American artist in the 21st century. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

And Lear’s Fool possessed ideal caregiver qualities: “loyalty, steadfastness, wit.” New in Paperback: ‘Why We Swim’ and ‘The End of October’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Crowe starred in "L.A. Confidential" and "American Gangster," Gosling appeared in "Gangster Squad" and Black lent his dark, sardonic wit to the aforementioned "Weapon" as screenwriter and "Kiss Kiss" as director. Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe's 'Nice Guys' stakes out June 2016 release 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

The play only faintly enriches the story, despite the actors’ vigorous efforts and the script’s flashes of absurdist wit. | 'Tom Ryan Thinks . . .': Drug-Fueled Rants From a ?50s Film 2011-01-19T22:09:28Z

A writer for hire — his oeuvre is summed up by the vulgar wit of his latest effort, about a magician, “I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered” — the Ghost is tapped for cleanup duties. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z

Her wit was as much a scalpel as ever. It Wasn’t Me He Wanted 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

But the laxity and wit in much of this music masks a melancholy. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

And while still at a young age, he has realized that what fashion needs, more than ever, is wit and simplicity. Fashion Review: With the Greatest of Ease: Fashion Review 2011-09-30T22:47:37Z

There is so much to say about Rooney’s fiction — in my experience, when people who’ve read her meet they tend to peel off into corners to talk — that I’ve omitted the wit in her books. Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ Explores Intense Love Across Social Classes 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Ms Keegan takes on the meaningful and mundane with wit and grace. Tangible traces 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

“We really wanted a perfect package of physicality, the cuteness, the wit, the extroverted character trait of hers,” he said. In Disney’s Seedy Shadow, the Magic and Hardship of ‘The Florida Project’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

And so Michael passes much of his time taking notes over cocktails with Marie, played with an acerbic, dry-vermouth wit by Ms. Light. | ?Lombardi?: On Further Review, the Coach Stands 2010-10-22T03:39:00Z

The result is a dizzying mixture of poetic wit and furious hyperbole. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z

In her 30-year publishing career, the author has shown a unique penchant for cracking open the dark heart of human nature — usually with irreverent wit, devastating empathy and haunting shocks. A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

And there is some smart material and pawky wit in “Burning Questions,” even if they huddle, trembling, like ferns behind a waterfall. In Margaret Atwood’s Essays and Speeches, Some Hazards of the Trade 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

“I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences,” he said. How Mark Rylance Became Olivia Onstage 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

But they lack the gravitas of the earlier letters, and the wit fizzles. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

He is seeking a smart gal with a dry wit. Date Lab: She knew he would ask for her number 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

But just because Holter’s text is fluent in the disillusionment that’s overtaken this year doesn’t mean that it lacks humor or wit. In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Garner was a genuine star but as an actor something of a paradox: a lantern-jawed, brawny athlete whose physical appeal was both enhanced and undercut by a disarming wit. James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Her subtle portrayal of a black mother’s competing desires is layered with both pathos and wit. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

The best scene in the book, the fabulous Black and White Ball told from the viewpoints of various guests, displays Benjamin’s wit and verve. ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Drenched in ambiguity and wit, it is a strangely comedic drama that casually plays with movie tropes. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-05-25T05:00:11Z

There’s some visual wit and pop sparkle in the mildly Dickensian tale of how Cruella DeVil, the notorious pooch-hater of “One Hundred and One Dalmatians,” came to be that way. ‘Cruella’ Review: A Disney Villain Gets a Backstory. It’s Spotty. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Shortlisted for the Women's prize, the novel portrays a changing England alongside the horrors of war, with Atkinson's trademark wit and flourish. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

The songs are back, preceded by dialogue in which Guenevere preemptively defuses their sting with Sorkin-esque wit. ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

As for Pete Postlethwaite, he brings his usual vigour, vim and wit to a comparatively small role which reminds us just what a treasure he was, and how much he will be missed. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2011-08-27T23:05:46Z

It turns out that satirical wit is able to counter that weirdness in a way the straight news can’t. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

De Vries’s books certainly respect the conventions of plot and character, but his heart is elsewhere — with his sly, even subversive wit that detonates paragraph after paragraph as the narratives unfold. The off-kilter universe of novelist Peter De Vries, back in print 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Murphy is impressed by Justice Scalia — the wit and erudition behind his bushy eyebrows, his charm and drive. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Joan Rivers, the irreverent comedian known for her sharp wit and sharper tongue, died Thursday in Manhattan. Remembering Joan Rivers, Comedian 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In both, you begin by remarking on eccentricity, quirkiness, non sequiturs; and then you find yourself admiring compositional wit, structural authority, felicitous invention. Review: ‘Legends & Visionaries’ by New York Theater Ballet 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Occasionally, the long, controlled paragraphs curl almost imperceptibly into dry wit. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z

“To know you can go on like that and still have your wits about you.” For Carl Reiner and His Fellow Nonagenarians, Death Can Wait 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Guys and Dolls” is surely one of the most beloved Broadway musicals in London, where it resurfaces every decade or so to beguile audiences with its treasurable humor and wit. Review: A Mobile Audience for a Moving ‘Guys and Dolls’ 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

And the imprecise connection they made to the music’s beat was devoid of rubato or wit. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Dendy has a sharp wit, which frequently emerges from the characters he creates, indelibly limned. With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The director George C. Wolfe, who has worked with her several times, described the video as “typical Tonya. There’s a ferocity and an intelligence and a wit. It’s where bravery and madness meet.” Insult Tonya Pinkins? She Got There First. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

But even under the weather, Humphries, an Australian gentleman of prodigious build and even more prodigious wit, couldn't resist unleashing a fusillade of delicious quips and subversive sallies. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

This 16th-century Spanish mystic, saint and doctor of the church could sigh over her own limitations with the precision, earthiness and wit of a born writer. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Let’s see how the Trocks invest virtuosity with wit on a program that also includes “Swan Lake” and “Go for Barocco,” a parody of George Balanchine’s fiendishly complicated patterning. The Week Ahead: Dec. 16 — 22 2012-12-16T07:40:07Z

Ms. Lind — who has appeared as a docile Shakespearean heroine in Public Theater productions — shows a wicked comic wit here as a badge-toting femme fatale. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

And her exchanges were laced with the most wonderful wit, irreverence and self-mockery. Rozsika Parker obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z

Instead, it’s that the storyteller in Mr. Shafer isn’t at war with the thinker and the word man in him; he’s got a sick wit and a high style. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Not at all disappointing is the great bulk of this generally mesmerizing novel, including its occasional wit. Review | Jo Nesbo’s ‘The Kingdom’ is a suspenseful bundle of Norwegian noir that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Emmy Award-winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge of “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve” fame was recruited to polish the dialogue and add her signature wit to the film. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

“I think wit and camp have gone out of style.” Parker Posey’s Offbeat Glamour 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

And while Parisians gathered their shattered wits and mourned, the city’s celebrated cultural life — its cafes, its shops, its arts institutions — went quiet. A Paris Changed by Turmoil, a Century Ago 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Compare it to the great classic musicals, even the modest ones that ran a season had more integrity and wit. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

But Streep is seen to smile at this point, self-consciously amused by her own wit. Does Meryl Streep shine as the Iron Lady? 2011-07-07T14:51:30Z

Little care seemed to be given to making anyone's actions all that credible; it just went through the moves with little wit. Outcasts: season one, episode two 2011-02-08T22:00:03Z

But the comedy, or the wit, or whatever grown-up word best describes Jackson's wry humour, combines with a deft narrative acceleration to give his story the kind of straightforward appeal that literary fiction often lacks. Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z

She honed her elegant verbal wit and fused it with the nightmare logic that makes “Swamplandia!” such an eccentric yet revelatory family story. Books of The Times: In Florida Slough With the Gators and Family Ghosts 2011-02-16T23:30:12Z

There may be little of the Fat Duck’s modernist glee, but wit is not entirely absent from Dinner. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z

But Neustadter and Weber have previously shown an ability to bring wit and feeling to the coming-of-age tale, in “500 Days of Summer” and, especially, “The Spectacular Now,” on which they collaborated with Ponsoldt. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Review: Between Rock and a Soft Place 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Wayne's rhymes occasionally spark, but don't quite crackle with the cool wit and dexterous wordplay we are used to from the rapper. Rapper Lil Wayne releases new CD of pre-prison tracks 2010-10-12T21:40:00Z

It is refreshing to read real opinions delivered with wit and style. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Like his previous outings, this “Time” is a bold and unvarnished recapitulation of Linke’s tribulations and triumphs, told with considerable wit and enough self-deprecation to mitigate its sometimes simplistic philosophical digressions. One-man-show revisits ghosts of the past — including his own 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Her lively give-and-take brings wit and personality to what could be a highly wonky talk.” DC Theater Friday: ‘Three Sisters’ 2.0, plus a ‘Nasty Women’ rep 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Apparently, you don’t even try, as is evident from the new movie’s lack of wit and surplus of lazy scenes. | 'Little Fockers': Patriarch Faces Future: Who to Lead Nutty Clan When He Is Gone? 2010-12-21T23:34:26Z

In one of the movie’s few moments of genuine wit, Jacques jokes about marinating Estragon from the inside. | 'The Good Heart': Tale of Mortality, Featuring Brian Cox and Paul Dano 2010-04-30T00:07:00Z

This was less Line of Duty, more Law & Order: The International Edition, minus the flashes of knowing wit that made the latter so popular. Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Yet, what the film ultimately becomes — a sci-fi mystery, a smirking satire of religion — doesn’t possess enough actual narrative meat, formal style, or wit to justify its structural gambit. ‘Nr. 10’ Review: A Strange Joke, Too Dryly Delivered 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

But even the hat-challenged may find it hard to resist the display of visual wit and formal ingenuity that is “Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones” at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. Art Review: Hats, by Stephen Jones, at Bard Graduate Center - Review 2011-09-22T22:03:10Z

“Getting something that’s authentically funny and not the latest gag of the day, but something that has an innately funny voice and real wit — that’s really rare,” he said. How Emily Nunn Turned Salad Into a Soapbox 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

To wit: H. to Nixon: The better off I come out of this, the better off you come out of it vis-à-vis me. ‘The Nixon Tapes: 1973,’ Edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The radiant eloquence and wit of his best writing in the end ensured his reconciliation with the Guardian. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z

Fey's strengths are her wit and satirical edge, neither of which are on view here. TV review: Mad Dogs, 30 Rock and The Culture Show 2011-02-11T07:59:00Z

This may read as highly dramatic, but its producers write the dialogue exchanges between the principal characters with a lot of snappy wit and attitude that Missick, for her part, tempers admirably. Law, be a lady: "Stumptown" leads the new squad of TV women fighting for justice 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Now everyone thinks they can pull off panto banter, which requires a modicum of wit and timing, which George, in all honesty, has never publicly pretended to possess. This sub-porn for ladeez is not my idea of erotica 2010-12-25T23:02:00Z

“I hired Marvin,” Mr. Moyers said in an email, “because we needed his wit, without which a media critic is a warrior without a sword.” Marvin Kitman, Satirist Whose Main Target Was TV, Dies at 93 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

The dancers don’t seem to give a wit. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Your breath is wit, warming your hands and cooling your soup. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a decades-crossing, literate soap opera, full of the tinkle of casually dropped famous names and chiming wit. Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z

To wit: Each ticket to the concert comes with a free download of the new album. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

This is pretty much the archetypal Sorkin project – a slick firework display of showy dialogue and jostling ideas and a main character with a wit that Chastain wields like a flick knife. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Marty Funkhouser is a singular character in American comedy—earnest and petty and mean and kind and dumb—and perhaps the truest expression of Einstein’s famed wit and bitter sense of humor. Super Dave, in Memoriam: Bob Einstein’s Mass-Culture Parody 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

But it is best described as an action-thriller, centered around a group of people who use their wits and meager resources to risk their lives for freedom. John Legend and Aldis Hodge Discuss ‘Underground’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Did the job with such wit, memorably calling Oscar “the only 74-year-old man in Hollywood who doesn’t need Viagra to last three hours”, she was invited back three more times. The nine Oscars hosts who gave the most 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Danny Boyle masterfully turned a potentially off-putting true story into a riveting tale of suspense, wit and just plain celebration of life. 10 favorite movies of 2010 ? plus 10 runners-up 2010-12-31T01:23:13Z

This places the three of them in a battle of wits and wills. SXSW 2015: Of humans and robots in sci-fi chamber drama 'Ex Machina' 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

He seemed completely in command of his milieu, middle- and upper-middle-class England at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he gently picked apart its sympathies with wit and penetrating insight. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Henley is inventive, the owner of a wry wit and sparkling dialogue; she can mix broad comedy with deep pathos. Review: In ‘Abundance,’ by Beth Henley, Mail-Order Brides Find Husbands and Lice 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Suffice to say, the Beyoncé song of the same name contained more wit and social insight in a few short, sharp lines than their combined efforts. The Carabinieri Art Squad; Off the Page; The eSportsmen 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

And then there are the ghastly missteps, lip-synched and over-orchestrated pop numbers that cater to “American Idol” tastes but clash with the show’s subversive wit and cynicism. Television: In Fox?s ?Glee,? It?s the Attitude That?s the Showstopper 2010-04-09T18:08:00Z

While it is easy to embrace the dazzling surfaces of the studio’s animation and the agile wit of its scripts, is the music in Pixar’s 14 features any good? Music Review: ‘Pixar in Concert’ From the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-02T22:18:35Z

His scientific reputation was undeniable, but he had neither the refined manners nor the sparkling wit that flourished at Frederick’s court. The master of them all 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

To wit, “we’re still using fur,” he said, even if it is reclaimed. Canada Goose Will Stop Buying Fur — Sort Of 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

And Godwin will conclude the season with the “great celebration of love” that is “Much Ado About Nothing,” with the play’s warring wits, Beatrice and Benedick, still to be cast. Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

“There is a kind of swagger and daring, a playful ambitiousness and a dry wit that undercuts it all and prevents it tipping into pretentiousness.” How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

In a series of posts to Reddit’s financial independence message board, Mr. Long chronicled with dry wit and self-effacement his first year in retirement. How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

That could be because, for all the show’s earthy candor and scathing wit, it’s a soap opera at heart. The TV Watch: Still Fighting Fire With Fire to Honor the Fallen of 9/11 2011-07-12T21:24:39Z

It's a magical feat, pulled off with Updike's signature wit, painterly vision, and keen eye for beauty in the tiniest of details. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

The Times - Libby Purves This show's magic lies in wit, character and story rather than technology. Monster reviews 2011-06-15T09:55:53Z

There are some promising glints here and there, flashes of mordant wit and obvious ambition. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

This biography tells his complicated story with sensitivity, grace and wit. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Her beauty and famously long legs, long hair and long Texan drawl make her a compelling model and celebrity, but her wit, intelligence and conviviality elevate her from mere subject to inspiration. Jerry Hall, A Talent to a Muse 2010-09-29T20:31:00Z

Elsewhere, his trademark rationalism is sometimes insufficiently leavened by wit, and feels hectoring. Tim Minchin ? review 2010-12-15T21:29:00Z

With Shauna at her wit's end, the baby finally latches but the victory makes the crew's decision to eat the newborn, knowing he now had a chance of survival, that much more horrific. "Yellowjackets": Eat or be eaten? It's called being a team player 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

They were criticized for trying to duplicate Mr. Harmon’s frenetic pop style without matching his wit or his heart. Dan Harmon Will Return to NBC’s ‘Community’ 2013-06-10T21:45:10Z

To wit: On one “Supernatural” episode, Castiel buys a younger character a plush toy and says, “I got it at the Hot Topical.” Hot Topic Is Still Hot 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

She's got her wits on her side, along with a crafty plan. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart - review 2013-05-30T08:00:00Z

But many of those same people might also wonder what in the heck Tarlov, who heads research at Bustle Digital Group, is doing engaging in regular battles of wits with the unarmed, i.e. On Fox News' "The Five," Jessica Tarlov is redefining the image of the sacrificial liberal 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

To wit, the opening visual is a tombstone that reads: “Here lies Taylor Swift’s reputation,” a clear nod to the takedowns she’s been the center of in the past year. “Look What You Made Me Do” video: Taylor Swift battles herself and nobody wins 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Or it may feel like you’re stuck on a long voyage with a boorish sailor who thinks “That’s what she said!” is the height of wit. ‘Dick’: An American literary classic as a ribald card game 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

What they are, though, is committed to the task at hand: some percentage of wit, wisdom and attitude that every number seems to call for and with double the amount of exposition. ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’ Review: Holiday Winks 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Not simply the withering wit and the richness of his singing but the hydraulic reactions. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

He played the first movement of the epochal Sonata No. 2 with less violence than circumspection, gentility and wit. Review: ‘Au Revoir, Pierre,’ a Celebration of Boulez 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Photograph: James Penlidis Photography Whether we become what we are through our genes or through our experiences in life is the old chestnut that this debut novelist tackles with refreshing originality, wit and verve. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – review 2013-04-28T08:59:01Z

Lebovitz explores with measured wonder and sly wit, covering a broad swath of food terrain. An engaging taste of French cooking

The movie doesn’t have the wit of the first installment and seems as if it might be hard for young children to follow, though who knows with young children? Movie Review : ‘The Smurfs 2’ Takes the Creatures to Paris 2013-07-31T01:27:28Z

He was a reclusive, complex, sometimes vulnerable man, often a very tedious drunk but with a wired sense of humour and wit. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

To me, the cockney embodies this quality as one who has the moral courage and wit to invent a means of living out of nothing, creating employment for themselves and others. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

"He writes about broken characters trying to find connection. He's a very loyal guy. He has this street, guarded quality, but there's a crackling wit under the surface." 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Does the wit of Wodehouse in fact offer a solution to my rage? The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z

I’m not lacking in charm or in wit, And my body is ripped — that’s not it — Though I’m perfectly nice Seems the girls won’t look twice At a guy who’s not fiscally fit. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.)

He was small, but his presence and wit could fill a room. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z

But when you’re bored with all the others, you discover someone with depth — perhaps a sweet personality, or a dry wit. 5 perfectly balanced wines to try, from the Old World and the New 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

His fans, on the other hand, delighted in his unflagging wit, idiosyncratic learning and elegant style. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z

You come to this novel for other reasons, notably for its author’s authority, wit and feeling on the subject of immigrants’ lives. In ‘Amnesty,’ an Immigrant’s View Conveyed With Authority and Wit 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Singer seems to regard wit as immoral adornment. ‘Ethics in the Real World,’ Peter Singer’s Provocative Essays 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

To wit—the lines "Snakes invoked at the back of your room/Handing out a confection of venom." The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

A vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon describes Shakespeare as “a natural wit without any art at all,” and an early critic calls him an “upstart crow.” The playwright’s the thing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

He leads a bill of comics who, like him, combine verbal wit with outrageous silliness and a proper slapstick sensibility. This week's new live comedy 2013-05-18T05:00:13Z

The irascible Mason was known for his sharp wit and piercing social commentary, often about being Jewish, men and women and his own inadequacies. Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra plays with wit and snap, and the cast is as vigorous as the conducting. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

The music adds extra wit and accessibility, but it’s not the show’s only draw. Review | ‘Twelfth Night’ at the D.C. War Memorial features pop music and the (unscripted) sounds of traffic 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Now officially better than Blur, Coxon delivers the North/South battle anthem Running for Your Life and the motorik threat of City Hall with passion, punch and not a little wit. Reading festival 2012 gets an A* in Having It 2012-08-26T14:48:03Z

Dixie Carter, the "Designing Women" star who used her Southern charm, quick wit and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, died Saturday. 'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70 2010-04-11T04:23:00Z

The symbolism of a big apple for the Big Apple was so literal that the wit landed dead on arrival. ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

At its best, and that doesn’t come into full view until the third and fourth episodes, “The Newsroom” has a wit, sophistication and manic energy that recalls James L. Brooks’s classic movie “Broadcast News.” Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z

The latest footage, filmed in February, shows a bearded Hitchens speaking with a little more rasp in his voice, but still with the same sharp wit. Christopher Hitchens jokes about joining 'cancer elite' 2011-03-07T12:52:52Z

Not that they were entirely lacking in genuine wit. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme 2010-10-07T19:29:00Z

I missed those opportunities—opportunities for connection or merely for wit—because they came to me via my father. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

He says his name is Oliver Kalb, but he matches Mr. Stevens in wit, tone and charm. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 2-8 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

I have been a fan of Jessica's since her Daily Show days and while I am continuously amazed at her hair, her wit and intelligence have me looking forward to hearing more. Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson Save It for the Stage 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

But the wit and originality of the play lie in the fact that it examines the cause's factionalism from an American perspective. The Big Fellah 2010-09-27T20:29:00Z

Angelica and Alexander are equals in wit, but not in status, and she is well aware of her station and its demands: The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Their wit and rhyming facility sometimes echo Cole Porter. Review: In One-Woman Show, Dillie Keane Is Silly With a Purpose 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

During Letterman's tenure, guests were the subject of his sardonic wit. Feeling the loss of David Letterman 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

And its wit was irreverent, thanks to the influence of H. L. Mencken’s style on Hadden, Time’s first editor. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z

In the novel's short, themed chapters, there are occasionally flashes of Saki's dark, abrupt wit. Overlooked classics of American literature: Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell 2012-10-02T13:41:50Z

He also invoked her with wit, selectivity and care. Books of The Times: A First Wife Can Be So Stolid and Clueless and Plain and Pregnant 2011-02-27T22:49:34Z

In the first installment of the series, Ms. Obama read “The Gruffalo,” a book about a mouse who uses his wit and imagination to outsmart other animals in the woods. Michelle Obama Is Reading Books to Children Stuck at Home 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Such lack of dissent was disappointing from a journalistic point of view, of course, and for fan's of Priest's merciless wit. Clarke award: the rise of sci fi shows you can't judge a book by its genre 2013-05-02T10:19:04Z

These Brits for wits are also, in common with all awards, subject to uncertainty about their catchment area. The problem with the British Comedy Awards 2012-12-05T16:02:08Z

Shelton, known for his quick wit and saucy jokes, says he's going to try to keep from disappointing Reba, a longtime friend who doesn't always find his antics funny. Shelton says he'll keep it clean at ACMs _ sort of 2011-04-02T02:47:09Z

Freud was attracted to Bacon's merciless wit and risk-taking, admiring his impulsive handling of paint, yet curiously it was Bacon who tried repeatedly to fix an image of his younger friend's physical magnetism. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z

Of course, since in this text she, like her fictional Maris, is constantly living by her wits, there are occasional less successful passages where the strain tells. A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

Though not really a comedy, Rosewater is a demonstration of the creed behind The Daily Show: belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The part of Susanna is key to the opera, and there is some suggestion that her wit, honesty and resourcefulness made her Mozart's own favourite. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

This is a novel full of wit and spark; I found it oddly irresistible and arresting, despite my cavils. This Story of Love and Gaming Pits the Real Against the Virtual 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

It's an unsettling start that ushers us into a riveting, if unusually dark, interpretation of a work commonly described in terms of autumnal wit. Falstaff – review 2012-07-23T16:35:38Z

“Glee” has proved that there is plenty of room for innovation and wit in the youthful-angst genre, but “Hellcats,” inspired by the 2000 movie “Bring It On,” doesn’t even try. | 'Nikita'; 'Hellcats': Lethal Woman With Weapons Is Out for Covert Vengeance 2010-09-07T22:00:00Z

Here, a pulse, wit, beauty and a real sensibility have been slipped into the fray, alongside the clockwork guffaws, kabooms and splats. Chris Pratt Stars in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Well, it's written with great economy, tension and wit. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z

But Mr. Ayoade’s keen visual wit and clever, knowing touches keep it surprising and nimble, especially in the quick, lurching early scenes, which are startlingly funny. | 'Submarine': Coming of Age, and Then to Terms 2011-06-02T21:46:17Z

Was it also a feature of a generation who experienced war that they displayed considerable wit and humour? Letters: 'Peter Worsley was one of Britain's sociology superstars' 2013-04-02T16:45:38Z

In a tragic display of ironic wit, Noah exposes the basic idiocy of much white nationalism, which tends to value empty symbols more than the lives of fellow citizens. Trevor Noah's wit is an effective weapon against white supremacy and defense of police violence 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

With wit and a poet’s eye, Kohda examines cravings, desire and emptiness. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

His wit was quick, his sweaters roomy and kaleidoscopic. Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

White’s epic novel sparkles with his trademark wit and erudition. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Like metaphor, the subject of Geary’s previous book “I Is an Other,” wit often yokes together dissimilar entities to achieve a sudden illumination. Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

He was firm but kind, grandfatherly and sage with a dry wit. Seattle-area community members pay tribute to some of the cultural figures we lost in 2020 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

But more often the book is full of Wolitzer’s trademark wit and insight. Review | Meg Wolitzer’s ‘Female Persuasion’ captures our era’s gender politics 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Her hijinks are hilarious, her wits are wonderful, and I relish her rambunctiousness day after day. KidsPost readers told us their Beverly Cleary favorites 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Sophie would require the complete range of Miller’s skills and gifts — charisma, vulnerability, beauty, wit. Sienna Miller Found Catharsis in ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

But most viewers respond to the picture for the same reasons their grandparents did: it’s a movie made without pretense but with serious wit, brisk glamour and eternal star quality. Which Is The Better Best Picture: Casablanca or Platoon? 2012-02-13T13:59:29Z

It was a winning formula built from the quick wits of contestants — generally writers and comedians — and the warm, avuncular oversight of Parsons. Nicholas Parsons, host of BBC’s ‘Just a Minute.’ dies at 96 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Beard herself is a practiced speaker and writer, who deploys an accessible language with intelligence, wit and a disarmingly personal voice. Review | Author explains history’s muzzle on powerful women. Removing it is up to you. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Joy and romantic bliss are not on Ms. Landesman’s menu of subjects, but a mordant wit and a salty exuberance keep her lyrics from being depressing. Music Review: Traveling to the Stars, No Joy or Romance Needed 2011-03-08T21:29:40Z

Burden continued to amuse the heavens, and himself, with multifarious benign but startling feats of wit and engineering—far too many, each highly specific, for a few examples not to belie. The Danger Artist 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Hicks, who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 44, was known worldwide for his caustic wit and influential brand of aggressive standup. Russell Crowe to direct Bill Hicks biopic 2012-07-24T11:31:37Z

The other kind, prevalent in Great Britain but inexplicably nonexistent in the United States apart from The Nation and an occasional Sunday edition of The New York Times, is a test of wits. ArtsBeat Blog: This Time It's Crosswords (Not Cross Words) That Surface From Sondheim 2011-09-16T17:37:55Z

But everything he said was suffused with his usual warmth, wit and almost old-fashioned politeness. Witold Starecki obituary 2011-08-08T16:41:24Z

Her wit and grace will help you appreciate being holed up indoors all weekend with your own family. The perfect snowstorm book for every reader 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

But if Alexander always pays his respects to yesteryear's jazz, he takes care of its formalities with a relaxed eagerness and pungent wit – as does his principal partner on these gigs, Vincent Herring. This week's new live music 2013-01-12T06:00:12Z

But there's a great deal more than that here: humor, wit, mystery and danger are threaded through the book in musical measure. 'Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is a magical tale of Victorian London 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The approach, which one supposes can be called “dialectical,” is not without wit; one piece of archival footage, detailing the American Legion’s destruction of leftist literature, is from an early iteration of “Fox News.” ‘Her Socialist Smile’ Review: Helen Keller, Radical 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

And the hall’s transparent sound rewarded the lean wit of Haydn’s Piano Concerto No. 11 in D, at the top of the program. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

“The role of the director is to support the curators and let the curators be curators,” said Mr. Vergne, an animated man known for dry wit and a persistently thick Gallic accent. Let Curators Be Curators, Los Angeles Museum’s New Chief Says 2014-01-17T23:41:13Z

Ryan does not write the kind of poetry that requires the stage – her wit works fine at home; and yet it would heighten anyone's sense of her powers to hear her. Kay Ryan: the un-American poet who will fly the US flag at Poetry Parnassus 2012-06-29T08:26:54Z

Besides, this kind of mindless stuff is such a waste of the English language, and of the elegance, imagination, wit and erudition that can be brought to bear on a really cracking parliamentary insult. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z

Sonnets, syllogisms, declensions, puns, quips and carefully constructed insults are fired off in a nonstop, ever-escalating battle of wits. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z

Movies that people didn’t think would be in the running, that seemed way too un-Oscary, are solid contenders in the race — to wit, “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “The Martian.” Golden Globe Awards Parties Off to a Cold, Rainy Start 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

In a statement released Friday, prize judges praised Baxter's "original mind and ironic wit" and his "acute feeling for the landscape of marriage, childhood, and art." Author Charles Baxter wins prize for short fiction 2012-05-11T15:11:13Z

Perhaps the aphorism is made of equal parts wit and judgment, its success depending on its making a sufficiently daring detour in thought, while at the same time maintaining formal integrity, poise, and precision. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Given his sharp wit and scholarly interest in the subject matter, Hitchcock seemed a natural choice to facilitate discussions with Boyd. Looking at, listening to 1967's London scene 2011-03-20T12:45:00Z

If you really want to undermine an over-inflated production or performance, then wit and light irony are often the best weapons. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z

The whole show lasted just an hour — but an hour so rich in choreographic and musical invention, wit and surprise, that it felt almost overwhelming. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Babatunde is “pretty” and “the greatest,” but he defeats the devil not with his fists but with wits and integrity. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

"They are written with wit, insight and, above all, pathos, offering profound commentaries on the human condition." Mantel makes Man Booker shortlist 2012-09-11T10:55:22Z

So many of the entries were screedy: so bitter or despairing that their wit or humor was left panting on the floor. Style Invitational Week 1393: Another go at anagrams (O groan at a rash magnet?) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Owen, too, possesses a mordant wit, but she oversold it, and everything else, in a performance of domineering bonhomie. Harry Shearer and Judith Owen's Holiday Singalong ? review 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z

Best Supporting Actor: J. K. Simmons, in “Whiplash,” for doing what J. K. Simmons does—acting with alertness, wit, and lilt. My 2015 Oscar Picks 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Of course, the character has moments of real wit and insight, because the writing team at ‘The Simpsons’ was great. He loved ‘The Simpsons.’ But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

His Grace Jones-influenced camp cabaret is shot through with wit, humour and an ill-defined but seductive air of menace. Zebra Katz – review 2013-06-09T15:06:55Z

In his world that civility involves camouflaging unruly animal instincts under a veneer of wit. Music Review: Return to Civility, With Wit and Rhyme 2011-01-20T22:47:11Z

“I’d thank him for the comfort he always provided, for the wisdom he dispensed, for the marathon conversations, for his dazzling wit and humor.” Leonard Cohen's Son Wrote an Emotional Tribute to his Father 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The severity and wit of Ms. Meier’s scores are strangely gripping: as she orders the dancers around, her dry Swiss voice always carries the hint of a challenge. Dance Review: At Danspace, Physicality Gets a New Dimension 2011-02-25T23:21:03Z

The wit is in the steps and their sequencing, the unpredictable rhythms, the eccentric coordinations. Pam Tanowitz and Trey McIntyre Project Among 2014’s Best 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Like most Ellis stories, "Red" had plenty of over-the-top violence, tempered by dry wit and the blackest of humor. Comics: "Red" movie characters star in own miniseries 2010-10-19T21:20:00Z

“The nerves are braced: the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble.” ‘Dinner with Churchill’: Dining and diplomacy 2013-05-15T22:58:06Z

Episode 6 exposed Maggie as the reason for the rift between Hart and Cohle, and her performance was impressive, revealing a woman at her wits’ end, forced to take dramatic measures. Michelle Monaghan at the heart of ‘True Detective’ 2014-03-06T20:41:09Z

“I just really admired his craft of acting, the precision of his acting, as well as his real emotional depth and his real wit,” Mr. Lloyd said. Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

While “Raiders” transcends its inspirations with wit and Steven Spielberg’s filmmaking and “Romancing” tries hard to do the same, “The Lost City” remains a copy of a copy. ‘The Lost City’ Review: Raiders of the 1980s Blockbusters 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

He had just been talking about Ms. DeBona, who, relationship choices aside, seems to have more wits about her than most. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z

Could it be that a seasoning in the daily parry and thrust of the House of Commons has kept Ms. Jackson’s wit and acumen, not to mention her capacity for language, razor sharp? Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

But Kubrick’s biting wit, exemplified by his often sarcastic use of classical music in “2001,” is replaced in Mr. Malick’s film by a tone of unalloyed awe. Authority, From God to Dad 2011-07-14T22:53:02Z

“No one captures the messiness, the frailty or the integrity of humanity with the kind of wit and affection Jim Brooks does,” Ms. Pascal wrote. ?How Do You Know?: James Brooks Bucks Film Trend 2010-03-22T23:41:00Z

“The Leftovers,” one of TV’s most moving meditations, used some of the same devices and sly wit to examine how we muddle through a life that denies our most longed-for answers. Review: In Its Finale, ‘The Leftovers’ Crosses Beautifully to the Other Side of Grief 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

And as soon as I saw the rushes I told Sidney that no one in their right mind was going to be scared out their wits by Agatha Christie. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z

In his work there is wit and, above all, an encompassing empathy lacking from some among the nouvelle vague. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z

After the Woman's Day report was published, Wilson took to Twitter to address the brouhaha with her usual droll wit. Rebel Wilson is 35, not 29; she says she's a 100-year-old mermaid 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The wit is Balanchine’s, but still nobody communicates it better than Ms. Farrell. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

This charming documentary portrait affectionately showcases the wit, wisdom, and music of octogenarian New York City piano teacher Seymour Bernstein. Ethan Hawke: “Seymour teaches owning your fear and not being ashamed of it” 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Jones, his friend for 35 years, said he had lost "a gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit" and that he was in a state of shock. Mel Smith remembered: 'A gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit' 2013-07-20T19:59:16Z

Donen was never nominated for an Oscar but received an honorary Academy Award in 1998 for “a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation.” Director Stanley Donen, famed for landmark film 'Singin' in the... 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

Filled with terror, wit and unexpected grace notes, it’s a remarkable achievement that reflects the arc of a lengthy and celebrated career. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

But unless you’re Oscar Wilde, tiny wit bombs do not make a satisfying play. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The most conspicuous is the muffling of Mr. Turner, an actor of wit and charm, who is here required to be witless and charmless. | 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever' : ?On a Clear Day You Can See Forever? at St. James - Review 2011-12-12T03:01:02Z

If you want to move past your grudge, but you don’t have the gift of wit or the courage to step unto the breach of Twitter or a fistfight, what should you do? Circa Now: Feuding in 140 Characters 2014-04-25T22:22:54Z

A real-life lawyer for CBS responded with all the pluck and wit you would expect from a character on “The Good Fight.” Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

And his descriptions have enough wit and psychological accuracy to make even minor characters spring to multidimensional life. A Comic Novel Reunites a Damaged Dad and His Recalcitrant Offspring 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Blue’s forthright, full-bodied soprano is supplemented by a presence that radiates wit. Review: A Thrilling ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, Radiating Warmth 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Seeing her behave with a bit of sharpness and her wits about her made her far more tolerable. The Walking Dead: season three, episode 14 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z

However, she rarely shows the native wit that tempers Truffaldino’s inanity. Goldoni’s ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ in the Country 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Simon earned the respect of colleagues for his mordant wit. Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

In 1962, the academy nominated sublime wit Dorothy Parker for reading an album of "her own short stories, verse and a book review" for cult jazz label Verve. A Grammy for James Franco? Weird tales from the spoken word category 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Much of the wit in “Telegraph Avenue” inheres in Chabon’s astonishing prose. ‘Telegraph Avenue,’ by Michael Chabon 2012-09-08T00:17:29Z

"He had been looking for this single record for years and was really at his wits' end," Vall said. From afrobeat to zouk: the Mauritanian home of rare African sounds 2012-06-03T12:49:52Z

Even side characters are captured with sharp wit. Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel ‘Barkskins’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Moore’s post uses ironic wit to point out the fact that it is simply absurd Trump has not been held accountable for any of his alleged wrongdoings. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

The many young critics who selected it to review were equally delighted by its warm-hearted, frothy wit, its ebullient fantasy and expansive cast of unusual and fascinating creatures. Eva Ibbotson obituary 2010-10-24T17:13:00Z

All these men lived by their wits, frequently begging aristocrats for cash “subscriptions” to their future poems or novels — a pre-Internet version of crowdfunding. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The movie does have a story — something about a road rally and a dead father and a financial debt to two shady guys — but it’s ineptly told, without a shred of wit. ‘Swearnet,’ a Project of the Trailer Park Boys 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Another movie that substitutes gooey music for pathos, and people dumping green soup on each other for wit? 'You Again': a lousy romantic comedy you feel you've met before 2010-09-23T20:20:00Z

His best poems are cynical, impolite, acid in their wit’s rain. ‘S O S: Poems 1961-2013,’ Works by Amiri Baraka 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

To wit: make nice with the enemy, then retreat, then attack. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

Her portraits somehow manage to combine effervescence with earnestness, a finely tuned sense of absurdity with nostalgia, satiric wit with genuine warmth. Books of The Times: Soft Lyrics Set in Motion a Mad Crush 2011-01-31T19:02:40Z

Sadly, McQuarrie provides little of the cool wit and none of the dramatic fibre he brought to The Usual Suspects or his other film as director, the bizarre The Way of the Gun. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-30T00:08:01Z

The rest of the disc pales by comparison with these extraordinary pieces, but even the tiny Trio from 1936 has a wit and charm about it here. Cage: Three Constructions; Quartet, Trio, etc – review 2012-07-19T20:29:01Z

Mr. Terrana said that Mr. Klein drew on his dark wit for strength to the end. With Wounded Spirits, the Frightnrs Rally Around Their Frontman 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

What she needs are songs that unwind her instead of proving her authenticity, godliness and mother wit. New Music by Currensy and Ashton Shepherd 2011-07-11T22:19:20Z

However you regard Strunk and White, Ms. Kalman’s illustrations match, exaggerate or skew the bits of its language that caught her ear, bringing out the book’s implicit wit while adding some of her own. Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

After people got past that, the general online response was even more juvenile, to wit: If people want to have kids, we, the taxpayers, shouldn’t have to pay for their time off. Please Stop Acting as if Maternity Leave Is a Vacation 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

And aside from Roberge’s turn, there is precious little wit in this production. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But his smiling eyes and wit made cops comfortable enough to leave him alone in unsecured spaces, enabling him to escape and hide for days the Colorado hills. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Deployed in his sparkling heroic couplets, the arguments and summaries are alive with wit, verbal agility and good sense. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z

The dance follows Stein’s meters but without her entrancing wit or fluent brio. Dance Review: Fall for Dance, With Work by Christopher Wheeldon 2012-09-29T01:37:29Z

I didn’t drink as I was also working day shifts in a coffee shop and, later, the fire service, and needed my wits about me to pull off my 60-hour working weeks. My name is Jack Monroe, and I’m an alcoholic. But now I’m recovering… 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

But wit is also serenity in the face of the absurd. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Author Bryan Kozlowski enjoys bringing the wisdom of classic literature into everyday life, which he calls “lit wit.” Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The ensuing silence showed Letterman’s unique ability to combat boorishness with snark and wit. David Letterman's comeback: can his Netflix show take him back to the top? 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“BrainDead” is no “Good Wife,” but it does have the Kings’ sense of wit and momentum. ‘BrainDead’ makes every easy Washington joke there is, but it’s still entertaining 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

I float along the pavement beside him, laughing at his jokes; his mood is unrecognisably effervescent, fizzing with wit, and I tell him he’s on cracking form. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

Instead they saw how much wit and spirit Mr. Oliver brought to the assignment. John Oliver Introduces ‘Last Week Tonight’ on HBO 2014-04-23T12:58:15Z

The delicacy of the partnering — the surprising connections and exchanges of impulse between brush and body parts, curves and straight sticks — is representative of the whole dance, its detail and precision, its understated wit. Dance Review: ‘Astral Converted’ by Trisha Brown at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-11T22:05:08Z

Throughout her career, she was renowned for her many acid-tongued pearls of wit which took swipes at other celebrities but also turned inwardly, mocking her own later penchant for plastic surgery. In quotes: Joan Rivers 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Ratmansky is known for the dynamism and wit of his ballets, for his belief in the expressive potential of classical dance, and his ability to draw technically exciting, dramatically nuanced performances out of dancers. A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

To wit: “We launched a pant called the City Sleek.” Analysis | Returning to the office means wearing fancy clothes again. Or at least nicer leggings. 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

The songs we heard were manifestations not just of her emotions but of her wit and passion. Losing Her Mind: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Ends with Hope 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

When asked about his influences, Albee once piquantly paired Sophocles and Noël Coward, and his work can be seen as a unique blend of tragic vision and hyper-articulate wit. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

His debut solo album, “Doris,” was a complex highlight of the 2013 hip-hop slate; in the songs, he lamented his absentee father and joked with sharp wit atop noncommercial beats. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

With admirable wit and panache, Smith goes on to address the “chauvinistic, pigheaded blokes who feel emasculated by the fact that we, three small, fairly feminine girls, are stronger than them.” Zoe Smith takes on everyone 2012-08-01T15:40:00Z

Ariana Grande’s hosting stint put forward the unusually sharp wit and all-around comedy chops of a performer known best in her short career just for singing well. Ariana Grande's 'SNL' Performance Was a Triumph 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

They also showcase the cantankerousness and wit he seemed to have had from birth. ArtsBeat: Wales Honors Native Sons Richard Burton and Michael Sheen 2012-10-17T19:29:44Z

Sauntering through events, scattering nihilistic musings as if they were breadcrumbs made of poison, the actor finds the wit in negation, the common sense in the curmudgeon. Review: In Shakespeare, When to Underact? 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z

It’s a world of pinpoint delicacy and — in pictures like Fragonard’s “Woman with a Dog” — self-amused wit. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

This memoir, by the longtime food critic for New York magazine, is full of eloquence and wit about what being a professional glutton does to his body and to his family. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The Max Martin jukebox musical “& Juliet,” which is playing a thousand feet away and features five Spears hits, integrates book and songs with less visible seams and more wit. ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Review: Cinderella, Liberated (Again) 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

I saw her as someone who, at the beginning of the film, was at her wit's end, and I enjoyed that I was allowed to take it to a comedic place but also keep serious. In dark comedy "The Columnist," a reporter finds that dealing with online trolls is literal murder 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

His new collection of journalism, “The Rub of Time,” produced the usual reaction in me: intense, fawning admiration for his wit and verve, interspersed with bursts of contemptuous irritation at some pomposity or other. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

At its best, Durham’s work flares with blunt energy, the catharsis of sly wit and the subtle nuance of pressing if unanswerable questions. Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

In , such men were given a knowing wit and a sort of sharp ease in their speech which is absent from the book of stories. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Parents and kids chose bright colors and broad humor over artful atmospherics and subtler wit. Taken 2 Kidnaps Huge Weekend Gross; Frankenweenie Is Teeny 2012-10-07T21:44:23Z

Wilson, leaning on her comic persona to compensate for the script’s lack of wit or inventiveness, is a reliable deadpanner. ‘Isn’t It Romantic’ Review: Rebel Wilson Mocks, and Obeys, Rom-Com Rules 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Wingard does, from time to time, but without summoning the deeper dread or the sharper wit that might make this movie anything more than an elementary exercise. Review: ‘Blair Witch’: Don’t Go Back Into the Woods 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

There’s lighter wit here — sometimes whimsical, sometimes sharp. Chouinard’s ‘Rite’: astonishing dance, astounding dancers 2013-01-25T17:50:37Z

Perhaps above all, you are apt to be tickled, sometimes to gales of laughter, by the spray of verbal wit that characterizes the McDonagh dialect. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Along the way she counters the frequent British complaints about American English by showing, with wit, that neither version is better, more logical or more consistent. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From the Grand Canyon to the Moon 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

A conspiracy thriller filled with bewildering connections, dark conjecture and arcane information, The House of Rumour perhaps most resembles The Da Vinci Code, rewritten by an author with the gifts of characterisation, wit and literacy. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z

This poppy dress, which I wore to the “China: Through the Looking Glass” show in 2015, was an example of Karl’s dexterity and quick wits at his desk. Karl and Anna, a Love Story in Clothes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

A comedian whose sarcasm and subversive wit seemed revolutionary back when the gracious Johnny Carson was late-night's undisputed king, Letterman, 68, ranks as the format's elder statesman. The No. 1 reason fans are turning out: They love David Letterman 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

After his elder daughters’ rejection, he seems truly stunned out of his wits, and he always appears to be musing, “It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.” Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z

Written between 1951 and 1993, the letters are full of acerbic wit, insight, playfulness, self-deprecating humour and a nostalgic yearning for simpler times. Paperback writer 2010-03-16T14:13:00Z

With his drawled wisecracks and quick wit, Dean charmed many fans. Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 2010-06-14T03:14:00Z

But De Kretser's wit is equal to if not finer than Bishop's. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser – review by Frank Moorhouse 2013-06-17T03:20:27Z

Enemy’s star is a real, fine actor, not a budding movie critic, but his usual wit and winsomeness are lost in this fret festival. REVIEW: In Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal Sees Double 2014-03-13T17:07:23Z

The detective as pretty fit: As quick with his fists as with his wit. A ‘Sherlock’ Creator Responds to a Critic in Verse 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

When it slices to the core of a classic text with wit and verve and a show-off’s delight, it’s doing what the company does best. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Together these experiences gave him an opportunity to show off an acerbic wit. L. J. Davis, Journalist and Novelist, Is Dead at 70 2011-04-09T05:07:20Z

The production’s hip-hop aesthetic of sampling flaunts its freedom and wit with a range of allusions. Review: A Hip-Hop Take on Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

US talk show host David Letterman said that the acerbic wit was "a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy". Tributes paid to comedian Rivers 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

There was a time when America’s greatest writers, wits and humorists were known by their last names: Parker, Benchley, Thurber and, breaking the comedy rule of three, Perelman. S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

This, friends, is news: a movie populated by young people who do not mumble, swear, punctuate their utterances with “like” or think that an incredulous “really?” represents the apogee of wit. Movie Review: ?Damsels in Distress,? From Whit Stillman 2012-04-05T12:00:00Z

Mr. Brown’s Walker, himself possessed of a ready wit, parries Harvey’s sharp questioning with smoothness. Review: In A. R. Gurney’s ‘Love & Money,’ a Grandson Materializes to Claim His Fortune 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

And Shriver brings all her ferocious wit to bear to mock its hucksters and disciples. Review | ‘The Motion of the Body Through Space’ is a fitness industry satire weighed down by its own heavy-handedness 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Once in California and relieved from the exigencies of war, he turns his incisive wit on American culture and its cheery racism. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

He was a raconteur, a charmer, a wit. Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Give him an offbeat nemesis and let the battle of wits begin. The Top 10 TV shows of 2011 2011-12-30T19:25:06Z

In the mid-1960s Paul McCartney of the Beatles saw Cutler on the TV show Late Night Line-Up and was impressed by his wit and his ability to "hang on to child-like wonder". The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z

His most substantial gift was to restore Cervantes's smile, allowing us to perceive in all their complexity the layers of wit and humour on which Don Quixote rests. Anthony Close obituary 2010-10-03T17:41:00Z

Knowles, 39, hails from the esteemed Inn at Little Washington and infuses dinner with charm and wit as she dispenses a lovely marsanne with a first course of diver sea scallops. Plume at the Jefferson: A hushed escape, expertly handled

"He never stopped surprising me with his wit, charm and, above all, his humility and simple decency." "Horses".' star Michael Sarrazin dies at 70 2011-04-19T00:02:10Z

To wit: “even when he is speaking Spanish, i can always tell when Oscar is teasing someone.” Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z

Their duologues stand up astoundingly well, even now, and the equality and fraternity of their act, as they strop their eager wits on one another, has grown more touching with age. Postscript: Mike Nichols (1931-2014) 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Featuring Ms. Karr’s languid wit and reluctant half-smiles, punctuated by family photos of the author, the trailer is actually pretty good. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z

It’s lunacy made for children to laugh at, but written with a wit that might catch an adult’s attention. Video Games: Peggle 2, Assassin’s Creed Pirates, Blek and Doki-Doki Universe 2013-12-17T23:04:12Z

Her briskness and wit keep up the comic tempo. Bonding With Léa Seydoux 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

To wit, he delivered a black-clad dramatic paso doble to Calvin Harris’ “Blame.” Dancing With the Stars Watch: The Semifinals Unplugged 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Whatever the piece may finally lack in originality, it more than makes up for in theatrical wit and verve. Seven Year Twitch – review 2013-05-28T17:11:53Z

Her wit extends out from the individual characters into a larger commentary on the difficulties of becoming an adult, making this an especially rich addition to the author’s body of work. Emma Straub’s New Family Saga Is Half Feel-Good, Half Fraught 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

A “somewhat retrograde cynic, a toxic presence,” the narrator armors herself in wit, continually hedging her position and thus her engagement with the political tumult around her. ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

"The Tragedy of Macbeth" may not have the wit of a typical Coen Brothers film, but it is still quite wondrous. Denzel Washington is commanding in Joel Coen's bloody, bold and resolute "Tragedy of Macbeth" 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

The lawyer is a ridiculous character, and she drags Mr. Gerolmo’s script — which has flashes of wit and cleverly elliptical plotting — into implausible and misogynistic areas. Television Review: Mark Harmon in ?John Sandford?s Certain Prey? - Review 2011-11-04T22:11:08Z

In a battle of wits, who would come out on top? Around Town for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Falco, of course, is the main reason to tune in, even as “Tommy” struggles to match her range, from serious empathy to dry wit. Review | In ‘Tommy’ and ‘For Life,’ criminal justice reform comes from within the system 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

In the mood for some wit and clowning from the Bard's quill? A guide to free outdoor theater around the Puget Sound region 2012-07-12T18:22:03Z

I will miss his wonderful wit and way with words. Glenn O’Brien’s Friends Remember a ‘Successful Maniac’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

And Garcia's Odabella, though understandably a touch squally at the top of the range, had the wit and understanding to shade her tone effectively at the story's relatively few intimate moments. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' takes stage with guns blazing 2012-01-16T01:07:05Z

Rather, his art is vigorous and trenchant, flecked with wit and irony, and passionately engaged with the larger history of art, from van Gogh and Matisse to Francis Bacon and Robert Rauschenberg. Review | This Native American artist should have been a household name. But he died at 31. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Oldman brings a sharp wit and a soft heart to the role of the veteran studio hack, who spends a portion of the movie laid up with broken leg and a serious drinking problem. What's new on Netflix in December from "Big Mouth" & Chadwick Boseman to a bearded George Clooney 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

The best sequences are their capsule biographies, which free Mr. Ayer from the slog of action and allow brief bursts of wit, energy and color. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

“His smile is magical, he’s super funny, his wit is really sharp and the conversation was just effortless,” he said. A Wedding Under the St. Louis Arch 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sullivan’s pictorial wit and storytelling brio are delightful in ways that cut against the harshness of the story without blunting its deep ache. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z

It's all handled with cheesy good humor, if little actual wit. 'Hot Tub Time Machine': Forgettable trip back to the decade of big hair 2010-03-24T23:33:00Z

He was already a father figure to some students and a cherished ally of other doctoral candidates, who rejoiced in his knowingness, acerbic wit, his tone of unshakable, indifferent self-confidence, and his charisma. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z

She bore the disappointment with a wit and detachment honed by a lifetime's practice. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

To wit, there are multiple, major productions of Shakespeare in New York City every month through August, at least. All of New York Is Shakespeare?s Stage 2011-02-17T23:26:20Z

At a recent rehearsal, the wail and drive of the music was matched by the dancers’ cheers and laughter as they reacted to the spontaneous wit of their colleagues. Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

She has been specifically requested by Daniel Craig, who plays 007, to bring her wit and quirkiness to the screenplay, the Observer has learned. Phoebe Waller-Bridge brought in to liven up new Bond script 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

He has an antic imagination and a delicious wit. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The deft theatricality of Mendes, who won an Oscar for “American Beauty” in 1999, imbues the production with a winning air of improvisational wit, even as it moves through the decades with narrative panache. Review | With the opening of ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ Broadway just got smarter — and more exciting 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Andreas found a delicate blend of wit and pathos for “Body and Soul.” Music Review: ‘Sweepin’ the Clouds Away’ Lifts Spirits at 92nd Street Y 2014-02-23T21:45:05Z

If by its nature, the show is not big on emotional depth, it nonetheless skims the surface with wit, flair and surprising insight. One Million Tiny Plays About?Britain 2010-05-23T20:45:00Z

I got a chance to introduce them to my personality, my particular brand of wit and sense of humor, and song choice, and clothing style, and sentiment and compassion. For his latest tour, CeeLo Green is riding his train of love home 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

"Like a Valentine," organized by Henry exhibition curator Sara Krajewski, is a big, woolly exhibit that highlights both Mitchell's wit and his unruliness. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z

The impact is not in the wit of the writing, or the polish of the two performances, but in the irresistible feeling of a generation with too much life, vigour and potential to be subjugated. One Day in Spring: 24 Hours in the Middle East – review 2012-05-23T16:17:57Z

She’s a model of sly wit, of compassion and, yes, of integrity. Hillary Clinton’s Moment, and My Own 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

As a writer, critic and journalist he was known for his acerbic wit and love of his hometown. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Coutured and made up to seem a younger, taller, lither Davis, Neal reads her early lines with a castrating wit, accompanied by the flinging of an eyebrow for emphasis. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z

Given the subject, Reacher is more thoughtful and measured than usual, relying more on his wits than on those fists of his that are “the size of a supermarket chicken.” In Lee Child’s ‘The Midnight Line,’ hero Jack Reacher seeks justice amid the opioid crisis 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

With ad hoc wit, he long sought to abolish artificial barriers between the conductor and the patrons. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73

Seeing their interaction up close, you come to realize how much Stanley and Blanche actually have in common: intelligence and wit and a healthy appetite for sex and for drink. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z

Harry, a spry 85-year-old with a Mark Twain mustache and a wit to match, waved us onto his lush green farm. Explorer: Biking Maine?s Rugged Side 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z

As a man who ran a country for years, he knows the dangers of chaos, and you can sense him trying to find a steady island of calm within his own disordered wits. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z

Governor Andrew Cuomo described Rivers as an iconic New Yorker whose wit will always be remembered. Private funeral set for Joan Rivers, acerbic comedy pioneer 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Living by their wits in some vague developing country, they pick pockets and panhandle to survive. Review: ‘Frontières Sans Frontières,’ Where Poverty Is Photogenic 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

He may not have the enduring popularity of Johnny Carson, but Merv Griffin's charm, wit and intelligence made the talk-show host one of the masters of the genre. Merv Griffin, often overlooked, gets DVD set and Paley Center tribute 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Insect Fashions,” in which bugs strut down a runway, flaunting their absurd wings, legs, shapes, and patterns, is a kind of elevated taxonomy: a parade of eye-popping creatures, glorified by wit. Richard McGuire: The Art of the New Yorker Spot Illustration 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In it, people film themselves doing stupid things, because that’s what constitutes wit in many circles. What to Watch on TV After Flags Are Waved 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

When the author was 7, the family immigrated to America, and his story begins to reflect the biting satire and wit that burns through his novels. ‘Little Failure’: misery, then mastery for Gary Shteyngart 2014-01-09T21:07:21Z

Albarn brings wit and intelligence to almost everything he does, from commercially successful bands such as Blur and Gorillaz to countless one-offs involving talented musicians from around the world.  Album review: Damon Albarn, 'Dr. Dee' 2012-05-07T15:28:00Z

In television, Letterman's unconventional wit and charm has made him "one of the most influential personalities," Rubenstein said. Hoffman, Letterman among Kennedy Center honorees 2012-09-12T16:37:08Z

Narrator George Blagden beautifully captures the tenor of Nana’s mordant wit, his lofty view of himself, and his frequent spates of umbrage at human presumption and sheer stupidity. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

This show manages to combine caustic wit with a genuine warmth. Last night's TV 2011-01-24T07:59:00Z

“In my story I failed to mention her wit, and her skill as a teacher. That is what I have to apologize for, my laziness.” David Sedaris’s Diaries Track a Path From Struggle to Success 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

But then I read the play that year and became enchanted with their quick wit and complex friendships. ?The Band? Helped Writers Find Their Beat 2010-03-03T00:15:00Z

An essential new book, “The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison,” presents this writer in all his candor, seriousness, outrage and wit. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Offer the Pleasures of Big Ideas and Everyday Life 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Here’s an audacious, inventive and character-driven blockbuster with some wit sprinkled in for good measure. Battleship: More Fun Than a Board Game Blockbuster Has Any Right to Be 2012-05-17T15:11:50Z

Waltz's wit and composure lend a lightness of tone to an incandescently angry film. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z

With urbane wit, and often in a colloquial or aphoristic tone, he investigated the relationships between art, reality, death, suffering and language. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z

To wit: Sam Smith performed his new ballad “Pray” on Sunday night, but it was dolorous until the backing choir arrived to uplift him at the first chorus. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Like Lear, Hillary had been exiled to the wilderness, but she had all her wits, and it looked like a beautiful day. The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

It's a prose "crip" version of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife with the same wit and verve, but it goes further, challenging how we understand and look at our own and other bodies. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z

Played by Rylance, she could easily seem grotesque, but in a performance of incredible finesse and intelligence, he creates a character that exerts her power through wit and intelligence, not looks. Stephen Fry's Twelfth Night: this all-male affair is no one-man show 2012-10-01T15:13:40Z

He is gaunt, lined, ascetic, a face redolent of wisdom leavened with a touch of kindly and sympathetic wit. Peter Bradshaw on John Hurt: 'A virtual folk memory of wisdom and style' 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

In that piece, published by the liberal Nation magazine, Penn wrote that Castro was “warm, open, energetic and sharp of wit.” Guzmán interview draws fire for journalistic compromises 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

All of us like humor, wit, a little bit of silliness. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Benefits and Moral Quandaries of a World Run by Code 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

But "Ruby Sparks," written with great cleverness and wit by Kazan, is more ambitious than that. 'Ruby Sparks' is pure, fantastical joy 2012-08-02T20:12:08Z

Sotheby's said the collection "shed light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the acclaimed author of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' Samuel Langhorne Clemens." Mark Twain's tribute to daughter sells for $242,500 2010-06-18T04:12:00Z

When Pinter was asked to direct Butley in 1970 he recorded that he was immediately drawn to the "savage, lacerating wit" of the lead character, "a remarkable creation". Dominic West to revive classic stage role of academic loser Butley 2011-02-20T00:07:03Z

Iwuji’s clipped Nigerian accent evokes the novel’s African setting and a village storyteller’s impious wit. Book World: 5 stories to relish even with your eyes closed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

If I wanted just to be entertained by sheer wit and satirical barbs, it would be Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: By the Book 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Their incisive, animated playing cuts through the density and complexity of Carter’s Duo for Violin and Piano to reveal the music’s wit and fancifulness. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Carter, Rand Steiger, Mozart and More 2014-04-23T16:20:45Z

"Space Marine"is less about using your wits than it is about expertly timing your button-mashing and marveling at the bloody carnage that ensues. Game On: 'Resistance 3' is a keeper 2011-09-27T22:16:04Z

It also shares some of the surrealist compositional wit and taste for epic grandeur that was a hallmark of Magnum’s old masters. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

But I want a bit more artfulness, wit and surprise from my television. Vicious, The Job Lot, Greggs: More than Meats the Pie – TV review 2013-04-30T06:00:00Z

There’s a wit to his voice that recalls an earlier era. Trevor Noah’s Optimism Set His Version of ‘The Daily Show’ Apart 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Daumier’s anger shone through more blindingly than his wit and satire. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Teens everywhere have to navigate the winding hellscape of finding their own path, and here that experience is reflected back with heaping servings of wit and heart. 7 Manga Titles Perfect for Any Young Adult Reading List 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

“A Dance to the Music of Time,” inspired by a 17th-century painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin, maintains much of its irony, wit and resonance. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Using wit and weirdness to get the facts into kids' minds, it's engagingly educational and you'll wish history was taught like this in your day. Take five: box sets for primary school-age kids 2012-08-28T11:00:22Z

As a host, Friedman is an intriguing blend of concern, coyness and deadpan wit. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

But it never acquires the sense of ease that allows Orton’s delicious wit to shine through entirely naturally. Theater Review: Joe Orton’s ‘Loot’ Is a Comedy of Bad Manners 2014-01-19T21:36:48Z

The intersecting stories resonate with shared themes of adoption, abandonment and redemption, and Atkinson brings tenderhearted wit and energy to even the bleakest scenes. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z

There are no shrinking violets in Mr. Ferver’s manic imagination; here, he aims his razor-sharp wit and choreographic precision on the lives and virtuosity of four queer performers. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z