" As one wit said, "it would be easier to regard journalism as a public good if the public thought it was any good.
Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.
Among Chicago's Nobel savages, as a wit described them, are Milton Friedman (1976) and Robert Lucas (1995).
He is as well liked by the City types who roar at his genuine wit as by the social workers of Camden, who expect him to wage war on inequality.
He was known as a great wit, though sometimes at the expense of unfortunate strippers or lounge pianists.
The sense of period, of ungainly English pride, is funny and acute, but the movie mislays its sense of wit as the girls grow up.
They are strong characters and enjoy engaging each other on that level and treat their relationship, it seems to me, as a test of quick wit.
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The Postmaster General has pointed to technology as a prime reason, to wit, email has replaced the mailing of letters and bills.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said he was "very sad" to learn of the death of Mr Wicks, who he described as "a man of great wit and humanity".
Unfortunately, Ms. Nixon's acting is part of what's wrong with the production, for she plays Vivian Bearing, the austere, loveless scholar of 17th-century poetry around whose terrible plight "Wit" revolves, as though she were a precocious schoolgirl rather than a full-grown, forbiddingly chilly intellectual.
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Over the years Ms. Yokoshi, who lives and works in New York, has demonstrated her theatrical imagination and ability to create poetic performances marked by mystery, surprise and wit in works such as "Shuffle, " her 2003 solo, and "what we when we, " her 2006 work for a cast of five.
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Even the French, somewhat better informed, tend to remember him only as the Prussian king who had the wit to befriend Voltaire.
They focus on Sussman's background as an archaeologist, rather than his modern wit.
Well, in a sense, he had written him, as Falstaff, the man of appetite and wit who sees through the game of honor and fidelity.
His winning personality and Glaswegian wit will be sorely missed, as will the banter we often had as a result of his fanatical support for Glasgow Rangers.
"His winning personality and Glaswegian wit will be sorely missed, as will the banter we often had as a result of his fanatical support for Glasgow Rangers, " he said.
He was an erudite wit at the dinner table and, as the reader now sees, in his letters.
If, as the Bard wrote, brevity is the soul of wit, the six-second time limit could in fact inspire creativity.
He died in 2006, while still editing the film, but, as a legacy, this feels alive with curiosity and sombre wit.
To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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As a philosopher, he sealed his death warrant with his usual wit and serenity.
At the same time, he reviles "the new bad taste, " which he defines as entertainment that tries too hard to shock and lacks inventiveness and wit.
Indeed, it seems fair to say that if you have the quick wit and the pithy turn of phrase traditionally needed to succeed as a public intellectual, then you are one of nature's bloggers.
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Still, this portrait of the artist as a crazy mixed-up kid has scruffy charm and self-lacerating wit, especially in its satire of the theatre, from school workshops to Off Broadway.
The rebound in vehicle production is going to be one of the main drivers of aluminum demand wit auto production, heavy trucks and aviation all seeing a resurgence as the economy improves, he said, echoing what several presenters at the Harbor conference mentioned.
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Anyone who can bring enlightenment, passion, information, wisdom, wit and compassion together in such a compelling package deserves to be on the air as often and as long as possible.
Beginning with his debut as a leader, 1969's "The DeJohnette Complex" (Milestone), he displayed an innovative streak as bandleader: The 1979 version of his Special Edition was particularly influential for its fire, wit and genre-spanning approach.
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Mr. Magill's range is extraordinary, and his wit, erudition and powers of observation give credence to judgments that might otherwise strike us as just a tad, well, insincere.
Just as negative opinion could spread because of a tasteless costume, positive opinion can grow because you can demonstrate wit and creativity.
Many of the stories are familiar, but as in his previous books, Mr Singh explains even the most complicated ideas with subtlety, grace and wit.
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