Even with my broken Arabic, his mix of wit, facial expressions and physical humor amused me endlessly.
This was done not to mock but to pay homage, and is full of wit and daring.
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If, as the Bard wrote, brevity is the soul of wit, the six-second time limit could in fact inspire creativity.
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.
There's the usual Bryson blend of wit, folksiness and sharp observations.
With virtuosity and no small application of wit, the New York Theremin Society seeks to elevate the instrument to the status its members believe it deserves.
With Justin Burnett producing, Ms. Haden built the tracks from the bottom up, remaining true to the original works but adding a touch of wit and personality.
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Like all Mr Jacob's books, this is a literary marvel, full of wit, erudition and wisdom, and it deals with one of the fundamental questions of human existence.
They shroud their aimlessness in thickets of wit and confessional asides which go by so quickly that you'll do a double take before you see how revealing they are.
Whether because of their age, image or interests, some people just don't seem like likely fans of Twitter's 140-character bursts of wit and wisdom (or ... you know ... other stuff).
Sir Salman is also the film's off-screen narrator, a role in which he does a remarkably good job, adding a layer of wit and insight that holds Midnight's Children together for the most part.
If you are a politician and are any kind of a wit at all - even half of one - you can expect to be lionised in the press by bored political correspondents who will guffaw at your bon mots because the rest of what passes for gaggery generally strikes a bum note.
Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said Ticketmaster is going to be something to watch because it is losing about 14.0% of its business wit the end of its contract with Live Nation.
Conservative Communities Secretary Eric Pickles called the Croydon North MP "a man of great wit and humanity".
There's not much in the way of sparkling wit or even idle banter to punctuate the action.
For the Oscars, McLane was tasked with honoring the grandeur and splendor of the event but also injecting a bit of his wit, too.
For all the star turns, it is the strength of Oscar Wilde's script that makes for a compelling drama and an evening of sparkling wit.
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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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".
But they do slowly unravel Coward's life, even if what one really longs for is more of the man himself more examples of his wit, more extracts from his writing.
In a cute bit of installation wit, the "painting" isn't up on a wall, but instead rests backside out on two felt-covered wood blocks, as if the exhibition were still in preparation.
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Though you leave the theatre in a properly chastened frame of mind, the sheer vitality and wit of the first half creep back, especially of the two women, Imoinda, played by Nadine Marshall and Lady Onola, one of the old king's former mistresses, played by Jo Martin.
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.
Fans of a single chamber think Mr Moe may have another motive besides the preservation of freedom: to wit, the preservation of his own power to appoint members of the conference committees, who meet late in each session to iron out differences between the houses.
He has even inspired a collection of quotations called "The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks".
Likewise, the bean that saves the day was foreshadowed and set up from the beginning, but ultimately still smacks of luck rather than wit or anything particular clever either on the part of Jack or the writers.
The glib, candy-colored wit of Eton and Oxbridge pair up with plain old chinos, brought to campus by soldiers returning on the G.
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One of the flourishes of the British temperament that are most enchanting to Americans is the alternation, among the brightest spirits, of seriousness and wit.
It is not beyond the wit of reformers, through staggered elections and longer terms of office, to produce an elected Lords with a different complexion from the Commons.
In 1895, the literary wit of his generation, Oscar Wilde took a libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury, the father of his homosexual lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas.
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