This witty and inventive piece had enough ideas and syncopated drive to power a work twice its 13 minutes.
The ghost affords a pretext for cravings which, if illicit and decadent, are also ironic and witty.
We only have to open a newspaper to find endless puns, assonances, alliterations, and witty (or fixed) similes.
And this is so in spite of the fact that the words "witty," "good-looking," and "funny" are all quite vague.
There exist a large number of witty alphametics.
The often witty and insightful introduction and coda attest to a meticulous concern with creating textual coherence through the volume as a whole.
One can only recommend this acute, insightful and frequently witty volume to all historians, both ' ecclesiastical ' and secular.
Would that our own had equally witty results !
