There was the face he yearned to see.: never again inscrutable; never again would he need to wonder what lay behind the smiling mouth and the delicate, malicious wit.

On trial and under question was Broadway's prevailing wisdom: that the way to an audience's heart is no longer the delicate wit and sensibility of a Cole Porter but rather velocity and volume.

Room has been found, for instance, for the delicate wit with which Louis-Léopold Boilly handled scenes of domestic drama in the last years of the 18th century.

Her ready tongue, her quick, delicate wit, and her facility of expression delighted all three.

Having never shown much of a sense of humor before, Mr. Zhang "brings delicate wit to a potentially awkward premise" (A. O. Scott).

And sprinkled among all this dark passion are a delicate wit and sense of l'amour as play.

He must have enjoyed remarkable popularity, for he repeatedly won victories over his younger contemporary and rival Menander, whose delicate wit was apparently less to the taste of the Athenians of the time than Philemon's more showy comedy.

As Scaurus came less often to his desk in the Grand Courtroom wing, he sometimes missed the seal- stamper's dry, delicate wit, his exquisite sense of where to place a dart.

She did like the garden, its delicate wit and gentle scale.

So the duke smiled a sickly smile, as if Mr. Dacre's delicate wit had given him a passing touch of indigestion.