How To Use Witticism In A Sentence
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The witticisms of Oscar Wilde are without a doubt some of the most amusing and perceptive observations on society.
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It was coals of fire, and often I was heartily ashamed of the feelings that I had entertained and the witticisms that I had made in petto.
TESTIMONIES
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Maybe younger viewers will find these witticisms funny.
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Harris clearly knows it is a lying scare story, an imaginary "hobgoblin" designed to keep us alarmed & easily led & whatever his own witticisms, is desperate to censor any dissent.
A Place to Stand
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He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine.
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How I long for the spontaneity of those social witticisms or emotionally charged exchanges.
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There probably isn't a better gift for a logophile or linguist than witticisms and wordplay - the clever kind or the chocolate version of such.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps.
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Indeed, the Artful, presuming upon their close attachment, more than once took occasion to reason gravely with his companion upon these improprieties: all of which remonstrances, Master Bates received in extremely good part; merely requesting his friend to be "blowed," or to insert his head in a sack, or replying with some other neatly-turned witticism of a similar kind, the happy application of which, excited considerable admiration in the mind of Mr. Chitling.
Oliver Twist
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This was one of the witticisms of my clever friend, Mr. Robert Martin -- 'Bally-hooley'-one of the very few men who can write a good Irish song, and sing it well, into the bargain.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
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In response to each new sally of witticism, the Indians would break into uncontrollable fits of merriment.
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Imagine the one-line witticisms flying back and forth between Hepburn, Morrissey and Wilde.
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First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms.
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Does Brancusi come closer to the spiritualism of the Shaker society or to the witticism of Duchamp and Dada?
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We don't know whether it's Fran Drescher's sense of style or her witticisms on The Nanny, that capture 10-year-old Ashlay Skerrit's attention, but it's her favorite TV show.
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His narration is particularly entertaining, with funny witticisms from time to time.
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There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations.
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You attempt to cover over lifeless language with wonderfully wordy witticisms of the repetitive variety.
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Thus they sat in the pretend world of Shavian witticism in the fading light, after which Buck took a shower but didn't offer the bathroom.
FAIRYLAND
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He sprinkles witticisms and little musical gems like this throughout the show, entertaining the audience during Williams' many costume changes.
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In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of 'jemmies' being a can name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession.
Oliver Twist
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_Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem_," is amplified by a similar witticism,
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
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And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears, their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat, their response and your performance twinned.
January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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I'm always thinking of wisecracks and witticisms, always searching for the funny side of a situation.
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In the islands in the Seine between Chatou and Port-Marly, on the banks of Sartrouville and Triel he was long noted among the population of boatmen, who have now vanished, for his unwearying biceps, his cynical gaiety of goodfellowship, his unfailing practical jokes, his broad witticisms.
Une Vie
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A series of gymnastics and equestrian exhibitions wound up the entertainments of the evening, which were interspersed with the witticisms and waggeries of two very clever clowns.
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However, this film encourages the viewer to come up with his own witticisms and biting remarks.
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After everyone had a chance to read the piece, the room began to jump with jokes and witticisms about the plan.
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Dispensing witticisms in accents as thick as the foamy head on the Guinness they carefully pour, the tapsters at Dublin House move behind the long, well-used bar, with much of the same natural ease as many of the patrons down their drinks in front of it.
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By the way, if, in sixty years of speechifying, journalism, writing two books and conducting voluminous correspondence, George Lansbury ever made a joke or a witticism, it has escaped Dr Shepherd.
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His strong speech was peppered with witticisms that the audience was waiting to hear.
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There is the classic, carefully crafted shtick of the old-fashioned nightclub comedian, routines and rib-ticklers cast and recast into perfectly polished pearls of witticism.
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It was silly: there were bad jokes, film clips were watched in boxer shorts, we debated the merits of ironing, we laughed ourselves stupid and wrote our worst witticisms up on a corkboard.
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The little court-jester had seen the witticisms especially reserved for such wearying weather, received in abstracted silence.
The Golden Apple Tree
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Prefaces; and it is well to remember the witticism of Voltaire, who, on hearing an ambitious poeticule read his Ode to Posterity, doubted whether it would reach its address.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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Turner's watercolours are filled with visual witticisms, signs and symbols.
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But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'
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As written, and as played by Shaw -- who shows, in comparison to his crisp Soviet assassin who is nearly a match for Sean Connery's Bond in From Russia With Love, that 12 years is ample time to go to seed -- Quint is far too prone to "colorful" sea chanties and eccentric half-witticisms.
William Bradley: Shift Change: The 35th Anniversary of Jaws and Shampoo Marks the Transition From New Hollywood to Blockbuster
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This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.
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In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of "jemmies" being a cant name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession.
Oliver Twist
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He can chuckle over some of the hard times of his young adulthood though you can sense the hurt that lingers behind the easy jokes and witticisms.
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Some witticisms were outright jokes at the passerby's expense.
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Not surprisingly Equitable is the butt of a number of witticisms doing the rounds of financial circles, most of them unrepeatable in a family newspaper.
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The acerbic Australian, equally at home dissecting serious cultural issues and Japanese endurance game shows, will be reading from his new collection of essays and dispensing bons mots, acid witticisms and Antipodean insights.
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So, every time the curtain lifts, there is something new - a contemporary issue presented with all the witticism of the world.
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PNB, you are a mess sir, incoherant and a lazy thinker, your witticisms lack both wit & incision, your punditry is bereft of puns and dittys.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Day trip.
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‘It was all witticisms and banter,’ said Mark Fine.
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First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms.
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“Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem,” is amplified by a similar witticism,
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
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‘It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked,’ is one of her most repeated witticisms.
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The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles
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At a dozen parties where I have been since, this unfortunate adventure has always been an object of conversation, of witticisms, but not of blame, except at Madame Fouche's, where Madame Leboure was very much blamed indeed for having been so overnice, and foolishly scrupulous.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Since then, he's provided wicked witticisms and killer punchlines for them all - Tommy Cooper, Stanley Baxter, Billy Connolly, Les Dawson… in fact, anyone who was anyone in British comedy.
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But his real and enduring value is as a superb writer: a crafter of succulent sentences, savory asides, tart witticisms (and other easy food metaphors he would never have condescended to use).
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In the Apologus to his translation of Plato's De regno, dedicated to Montefeltro on 6 January 1482, Marsilio Ficino plays on the duke's name, describing in a witticism that Federico was known as "a fide regia fideregum" and "ab orbis imperio Orbinatem ducem" by superior intelligences and as "Federicus Urbinas dux" by men. 137
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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They'll get arseholed on my beer an 'then shout out rude Mancy witticisms during me ballads.
High Society
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Still, in its four seasons, it's done well with critics and, usually, in the ratings, with an effectively complicated mix of gloomy outlook, one-line witticisms, apocalyptic plots, and range of characters.
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A moment after "grace" Harcourt made a poor witticism, at which the majority laughed with an immoderateness quite disproportionate.
From Jest to Earnest
