witticism

How To Use witticism In A Sentence

• So, every time the curtain lifts, there is something new - a contemporary issue presented with all the witticism of the world.
• His strong speech was peppered with witticisms that the audience was waiting to hear.
• 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.
• 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.
• The little court-jester had seen the witticisms especially reserved for such wearying weather, received in abstracted silence. The Golden Apple Tree
• 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
• Turner's watercolours are filled with visual witticisms, signs and symbols.
• 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?'
• 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
• This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.