Sentences with phrase «with more wit»

And while it's far from mainstream, it's also packed with more wit, passion and invention than all of the films in...

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Even if it costs more, it can be better to arrive later, get a good night's sleep and get to business the next day with your wits about you.

The larger objective is to figure out how to help more startups succeed, and the outfit — which this year surveyed 10,000 founders with the help of partners like Crunchbase and Dealroom — produced some data that should perhaps concern those in the U.S. To wit, China looks positioned to overtake U.S. dominance when it comes to numerous tech sectors.

Karen Leland answers these questions and more with insight, warmth, and wit.

Come up with a more original insult you banal dim - witted dou.che nozzle.

These essays feature his familiar wit («The Beats» literary legacy is just below negligible, their politics chiefly about druggery and buggery») and adroitness with language («Solipsistic Bores suffer — or, more likely, they enjoy — the Copernican Complex: They believe that the solar system rotates around them.

Even within their formal edifices, Astrue reveals someone who — like Lord Byron or the late Bill Matthews, and (perhaps more to the point) Jonathan Swift — has learned to manifest his own too human vulnerability while at the same time protecting himself with his savage wit.

Almost as soon as they had said that America never again would be the same, they began to talk about the restoration of the familiar and heroic past, making good the losses of September 11 with quicker witted intelligence agents, heavier artillery, more patriotic displays of consumer confidence in all the nation's better stores....

It is becoming recognized that what's good publicity for Southern California also means better yachting for the yachtsmen, with more and keener competitors to sharpen wits and skill.

As the Spanish league continues to show signs of a resurgence and with the cream of European talent making a beeline for the La Liga this derby takes on even more significance as it truly does appear to pit the wits of two teams at the very top of the tree.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

To wit: Lopez - Espin is one of just two Big East players with at least 50 shots already, which is more than 3.5 per game.

-LSB-...] districts fortunate enough to have the assistance of groups like WITS in New York City, or with affluent populations able to pay higher meal prices, better food is more achievable.

What it means is more lies (like Obama wanting to repeal the 2nd amendment) from a nit - wit with a voice like a bandsaw.

RIP Jimmy Breslin, the New York City newspaper columnist and best - selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick - hard words and a jagged - glass wit.

After eight years being manhandled by Ken Livingstone's superior wit and devastating grasp of detail, they seemed ecstatic to be headed by a man with similar talents but more sympathetic allegiances.

With a quick wit and a steady stream of public appearances, Bharara has been one of the more charismatic prosecutors to lead one of the busiest offices of federal prosecutors in the country.

With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex - obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker.

With a chatty tone and sizable wit, he introduces numbers more as beloved sitcom characters than concepts that puzzle and perplex.

In an erudite collection of essays on art that sparkle with his sardonic wit, the English novelist Julian Barnes wisely observes: «An artist's career... is more likely to be a matter of obsessional overlap, of ferrying back and forth, of process rather than result, journey rather than arrival.»

Infused with the Hartwigs» signature wit, tough love, and common sense, It Starts With Food is based on the latest scientific research and real - life experience, and includes testimonials, a detailed shopping guide, a meal - planning template, a Meal Map with creative, delicious recipes, and much mwith the Hartwigs» signature wit, tough love, and common sense, It Starts With Food is based on the latest scientific research and real - life experience, and includes testimonials, a detailed shopping guide, a meal - planning template, a Meal Map with creative, delicious recipes, and much mWith Food is based on the latest scientific research and real - life experience, and includes testimonials, a detailed shopping guide, a meal - planning template, a Meal Map with creative, delicious recipes, and much mwith creative, delicious recipes, and much more.

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He was funny, we would respond with wit and humor, which made me that much more smitten and excited to meet.

Of course, it still relies on your charm and wit to seal the deal, but with No Strings Attached service you will find more amenable partners for you with ease.

With Beatriz at Dinner, the prolific duo confirm their talent for social commentary and incisive wit after more than a decade of close collaborations, including indie films (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) and TV series (Freaks and Geeks and HBO's Enlightened).

The film - making may hardly be groundbreaking, but this story is more relevant than ever, and it is told with wit, precision and understated passion.

Man Bites Dog attacked the subject with more finesse and wit.

Her performance, which perfectly displayed the hyperkinetic comic energy and sardonic wit that came to characterize many of the actress» portrayals, won her a «special recognition for acting» at Sundance that year.The year 1998 brought more independent work in the form of The Misadventures of Margaret, a romantic comedy in which Posey had the title role and a foray into mainstream features with a turn as Tom Hanks» book - editor girlfriend in Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail.

With grace, wit and unforced wisdom, Yonebayashi's movie sweeps you up and then gently sets you down, back into a world that seems more capable of magic than it did before.

If «Wonder Woman» provided a glimmer of hope that DC Comics movies might start looking, moving and sounding differently than before, Justice League plops us right back into «Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice» territory, albeit with a little more wit and humanity.

And there's something undeniably of - the - moment in watching five credible, competent women stride off into an unknown future, with little more than their wits and a few weapons between them and almost certain destruction.

The tale, however, is told with such consistent charm and barbed wit that we really don't need any more originality creeping in to screw things up.

There is also a lot of wit on display here, with Maddin and his four co-writers deploying everything from jet - black humor to surreal silliness to pure and unadulterated goofiness and hitting their targets more often than not.

Much more comfortable as the perpetually cheery lifeguard in last summer's Baywatch, the actor just can't hide his natural affability and, even if the movie's multiple script writers had provided him with smarter lines, he couldn't deliver barbed wit to save George's life.

While the Planet Hulk storyline is full of wit and verve and comedy with dashes of drama, the Hela / Asgard arc is more drama with flashes of dark humor (Hela even gets a few good lines).

Mr. Rodriguez demonstrates his talents more clearly than ever — he's visually inventive, quick - witted and a fabulous editor — while still hampering himself with sophomoric material.

But more importantly, it was the rare blockbuster that was as entertaining when it just gathered its actors in a room, with Whedon's love of the actors and material palpably elevating things with real wit and drama.

To wit: in just the past four months, Spielberg has released one Best Picture nominee, the historical drama The Post, and is now back in theaters with one of the more complicated and ambitious works of his career, the long - awaited virtual - reality sci - fi adventure Ready Player One.

Paddington is more on the order of one of Pixar's better films, only with the British wit of Aardman Animations.

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The bracing if oppressively acrid wit of mid-career works like Greenberg has merged with the emotional generosity of more recent (and comparatively trifling) comedies like Frances Ha to synthesize his sharpest and tenderest opus since his acknowledged masterpiece, 2005's The Squid and the Whale.

The happiest of matrimonies the film presents is that between the director and his source material; Stillman, who established himself as a master of upper - caste repartee with films like Metropolitan (90) and The Last Days of Disco (98), feels more at home in Austen's wit - driven world than ever before.

Armed with little more than his wit and naïve charm, Charlie endures one bruising beat down after another to woo Gabi and keep her out of harm's way.

Lacking, too, is the visual wit that made Mary Harron's American Psycho adaptation so scabrously entertaining, leaving us instead with little more than the depressing sight of a hairy James Corden snorting copious amounts of coke before taking an unmourned early bath.

Full of wit and charm, and with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland perfectly cast as a pair of Victorian rogues, the film is a highly - entertaining caper, making one wish Crichton tackled this kind of lighthearted fare a little more frequently.

Her interactions with Jesse Eisenberg are so quick - witted that one just wants to see even more of them in the movie.

It quickly becomes apparent that he hasn't spoken to his father, Judge Joe Palmer (Robert Duvall), for a couple of decades and while relations with his older brother Glen (Vincent D'Onofrio) and his slow - witted younger sibling Dale (Jeremy Strong) are more cordial, Hank doesn't relish a moment of being reminded where he came from.

Something more is needed, a bit more wit, perhaps, or dare I say it, some sexual tension — with the humans, not the beasts, of course.

This year's Oscar race promises more surprises — so match wits with our experts: David Anson, Stuart Byron, Roger Ebert, Todd McCarthy, David Newman, Maureen Orth, Frank Rich, and Andrew Sarris.

Directed by Jim Burrows (Partners), who also directed episodes of «Laverne and Shirley» with Penny Marshall, this is a small television movie that has more wit, charm and grace than most romantic comedies made today.