Sentences with phrase «with the wit of»

When Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning mansion, she's put to work right away - as a full - time companion to Frank, the writer's eccentric nine - year - old, a boy with the wit of Noel Coward, the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star, and very little in common with his fellow fourth - graders.

His mysterious coded paintings reflect his introduction to the work of French writer Raymond Roussel, known for his phonetic and semantic wordplay, and his familiarity with the wit of Marcel Duchamp and Jasper Johns.

surveys Taylor's sprawling practice, which blended a Cubist - style interest in portraying a subject simultaneously from every possible angle with the wit of a Conceptualist.

It's an excellent book, well - written, authoritative on the science, revealing on the politics and laced with the wit of many superb cartoons.

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Much like real life, you can protect yourself on the internet by keeping your wits about you and viewing anything even mildly suspicious with a healthy dose of skepticism.

With its large open world and «sandbox» style of gameplay that encouraged exploration and going at your own pace, plus an acerbic wit, GTA III revolutionized how games were made.

Keep your wits about you and treat every post with a significant degree of scrutiny.

To wit, I share with you what I've learned from my years of recruiting.

To wit: in recent years, Japanese jails have added safety bars in cells and begun offering low - sodium meals to accommodate a surge of criminal senior citizens, shoplifting to cope with hard times.

They say, with wit and courage, what most of us are too cowardly or anxious to admit.

One of the best, Warren Buffett, often sprinkles his wisdom with a bit of wit, including this gem, «In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.»

During a fireside chat with Box's quick - witted CEO, Aaron Levie, Cook discussed Apple's push to sell to businesses — punctuated with jokes and jabs by Levie as if he were the new host of the Daily Show.

Avis Car Rental this week announced the launch of a new marketing campaign, which once again features the famed founder, along with a few other familiar faces including: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank, the co-founders of online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe and Baratunde Thurston, the comedian co-founder of Cultivated Wit, a digital content and product development company.

The path she takes meanders alongside a stream and over train tracks, not far from where hundreds of people converge during the company's summer «bike - in movie» events, gathering on the lawn to enjoy films paired with fine beers — like New Belgium's flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale, the organic wheat offering Mothership Wit and La Folie, a sour ale aged in the large French oak barrels that loom behind the bottling site.

WE ARE continuing to see good news on the export front for Western Australia with the value of our exports nearly double that of any other State.Western Australia's exports grew by a strong 42.8 per cent in the three months to August, 2000, compared wit

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

His mix of Southern charm, wit and witticisms and deep digital marketing experience with big brands and agencies make him the perfect balance of informative and entertaining.

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.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

Weisberg attempted to corroborate the story, and while Daniels did not share the contact information of some relevant witnesses (to wit, «Trump's longtime personal assistant Rhona Graff and his bodyguard Keith Schiller»), he was able to speak with three friends who backed her up.

It's usually full of insight and wit juxtaposed with the dryness of the regulatory filing.

By John Melloy, CNBC, February 24, 2018 Warren Buffett's highly anticipated annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders released on Saturday did not disappoint this year with a little something for all fans of the Oracle of Omaha, from professional value investors to the casual admirers of his wit and wisdom.

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The BOND MARKET is going to provide the opportunity to put the wit of Planck to work as we try to examine the ways in which the FED will deal with the vast amount of reserves with which it has flooded the financial system.

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Donne, seventeenth - century poet and Anglican divine, was perhaps the premier exponent of the «metaphysical» school of poetry that was characterized by «wit,» the clever deployment of language in grappling with large subjects pertaining to God and the soul.

When boneheads like you try to post your religious twaddle and can't manage to write a coherent sentence that any sentient 8th grader ought to be able to manage, you just reinforce the belief that all of you are dull - witted morons with one tooth.

This proposition of equality, based on the full strength of reason from the Enlightenment, was one that must be fought for and defended passionately with all the strength and wit one can muster in life.

With clarity and wit and verve, she shows that the gift - quality of Tolkien's and Chesterton's art is premised on the gift - character of the universe itself.

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

I'm pretty sure many of us worry that when we invite friends and strangers into our home that we will be overwhelmed with the stress of it — worrying that our guests are judging our wit and hosting abilities and secretly making mental notes of areas for improvement.

As a youngster he broke into London's literary scene seemingly out of nowhere, filled with wit, jokes and paradoxes.

You can bet that with your clever wit and his lack of one, somewhere along the line you really zinged him good.

But the famed chronicler of Narnia had many contemporaries who were equally deft with words, wit and wisdom, and whose work would be a suitable addition to any reader looking to add to their collection of spiritual writings.

A Green Thought in a Green Shade Alan Jacobs» critique of The Green Bible («Blessed Are the Green of Heart,» May 2009) was not only insightful but written with cleverness and wit.

Indeed, Lazarus is the type for the lovers of God, along with his quick - witted sister Martha and the intuitive Mary.

When you have to explain the basics of human communication to someone, you know you are in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

Here's a list of films for young girls — movies that show strong female characters with the kind of energy, intelligence, wit, and initiative our daughters hope to develop themselves.

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

The Storm Theatre and Blackfriar's Reparatory Company (with a little help from Shakespeare, of course) have conjured up a delightful world worth a visit where faith, hope and love reign, all governed by a great deal of wit.

With several exceptions, her wit and command of language elevate her nonfiction to the first rank, where it awaits another generation of readers.

I sympathize with a facetious remark of one theologian who said that the Trinity is a doctrine which, if a man does not believe it he is sure to lose his soul, but if he tries to understand it he is sure to lose his wits.

For they have taught that some receive it sacramentally only, to wit sinners: others spiritually only, those to wit who eating in desire that heavenly bread which is set before them, are, by a lively faith which worketh by charity, made sensible of the fruit and usefulness thereof: whereas the third (class) receive it both sacramentally and spiritually, and these are they who so prove and prepare themselves beforehand, as to approach to this divine table clothed with the wedding garment.

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

Caleb writes with wit and wisdom about life, death, theology, adoption, current events, and what it's like to do a job that makes most of us shudder just a little.

«Rachel's disarming and inviting sense of storytelling coupled with her sharp wit makes for delightful re-tellings of biblical stories.

This marvelous book is a jewel of Saint - Simonian utopianism: crystal clear, polished with wit, and sparkling with genius.

With a sense of being at their wits» end, some parents may resort to the actions of the planter in Isaiah's poem.

On that occasion, I appeared with Professor Geering and found, much to my delight, a precursor of such wit and wisdom that we immediately became friends.

G. K. Chesterton, with his table - turning wit, got it right in his essay «The Romance of Thrift»: