devastating wit造句

• Bankhead was known for her husky voice, outrageous personality, and devastating wit.
• A gifted speaker with an incisive mind and devastating wit, his death was regarded as a great loss to Ireland's political and intellectual life.
• When it reaches the market I will joyously embrace the miraculous new electronic word processor that produces English compositions of flawlessly graceful style, devastating wit and heartbreaking poignancy while its owner naps on a nearby couch.
• Madcap coincidences, ludicrous ambitions and deep shadows of mortality, along with the author's cruel but devastating wit, turn this book's show-business screwballs into what one of them calls " characters in a Preston Sturges nightmare ."
• During his peak ( 1956 1966 ), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit.
• His friend Rob Hair described him in his obituary as " Ned Shewry, world champion axeman, footballer, bush feller, farmer, plant lover a hard headed businessman, frugal in affairs of his own, generous with those he liked; keen brained, a hard hitter in debate, and the wielder of a sly and devastating wit ."
• The critics reacted harshly to the film, and to Barrymore's association with it . " The New York Times " wrote that " As a play it is a feeble thing, hardly matching the spectacular public accounts of his amours . . . . for all of Mr . Barrymore's shenanigans and devastating wit, " The Great Profile " is more than a little pathetic.