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- Deadpan (redirect from Deadpan humour)Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast...11 KB (1,198 words) - 20:16, 23 August 2024
Look up wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny...4 KB (395 words) - 18:36, 26 August 2024
Tenali Rama (category Humour and wit characters of India)celebrated Telugu poets in Sri Krishnadevaraya's court, and is best known for his sharp wit and humour. His literary contributions include the notable work...7 KB (648 words) - 00:59, 1 November 2024- Look up Wit or wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wit is a form of humour. Wit or WIT may also refer to: Wit (play), a 1995 one-act play by American...2 KB (285 words) - 01:05, 12 February 2024
workers, their natural wit and humour shine though." Confucianist & Neo-Confucian orthodoxy, with its emphasis on ritual and propriety, have traditionally...58 KB (6,995 words) - 23:47, 18 October 2024- Russian humour gains much of its wit from the inflection of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. As with any...12 KB (1,330 words) - 19:33, 2 April 2022
Sardonicism (category Humour)scornfully mocking. A form of wit or humour, being sardonic often involves expressing an uncomfortable truth in a clever and not necessarily malicious way...8 KB (771 words) - 20:06, 24 October 2024- like in his debut film ‘Pasanga’. His dialogues are crackling with wit and humour and he draws the best performances from his ensemble cast. Behindwoods...12 KB (903 words) - 14:59, 20 November 2024
ministers and generals. Regarded as one of the two most influential cartoonists, the other being William Hogarth, Gillray's wit and humour, knowledge...32 KB (3,539 words) - 04:27, 10 November 2024- Adrastus, Tecmesa and Teutras. Only fragments of the plays survive. According to Cicero, he was an orator known for his wit and humour. Cicero published...3 KB (325 words) - 20:51, 24 February 2024
Lewis (1885–1951) "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." He is the...11 KB (508 words) - 13:52, 3 April 2024
Blarney Stone (section In music and literature)something more than mere flattery. It is flattery sweetened by humour and flavoured by wit. Those who mix with Irish folk have many examples of it in their...13 KB (1,466 words) - 12:02, 8 November 2024
humour prevalent with other portrayals, and provided a "mix of action and danger threaded through with the right amount of wit and humour"; Smith and...79 KB (8,561 words) - 07:29, 20 November 2024
the bizarre and whimsical nature of its questions and the wit and humour of its answers. Spin offs from the column include six books and two BBC television...3 KB (336 words) - 11:07, 24 August 2024- Lanigan's Ball (section Origin and subject)lyrics portray unfolds. In Alfred Perceval Graves' book, Songs of Irish Wit and Humour, published in 1884, "Lanigan's Ball" is attributed to anon. In Folk...6 KB (747 words) - 05:13, 6 August 2023
- have been mostly dour gun blasts, The Dead Pool is a thriller with wit and humour and tension." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the film...19 KB (2,295 words) - 01:52, 15 November 2024
Journey to the West (section Creation and authorship)this is essentially a compendium of popular materials marked by folk wit and humour." Waley followed Hu Shi's lead, as shown in Hu's introduction to the...50 KB (6,544 words) - 01:34, 27 October 2024
Main Street (novel) (section Awards and nominations)and Arrowsmith were cited. The prize was awarded "... for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour,...9 KB (1,040 words) - 01:04, 13 November 2024
The Decameron (redirect from Cymon and Iphigenia)1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life...36 KB (3,325 words) - 21:36, 29 October 2024
Amar Khan (section Life and career)Ramadan play Heer Da Hero which got highest ratings and critical acclaim for its wit and humour. She made her film debut with Mohammed Ehteshamuddin's...13 KB (955 words) - 15:48, 16 November 2024
- Britannica, Volume 13 Humour by David McDowall Hannay 7699851911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 13 — HumourDavid McDowall Hannay HUMOUR (Latin humor), a
- Wit is a form of intellectual humor, and a wit is someone skilled in making witty remarks. Forms of wit include the quip and repartee. For when the wine
- all must admire the irresistible logic of the Sophismes, and "the sallies of wit and humour," which, as Mr. Cobden has said, make that work as "amusing