| Does Brancusi come closer to the spiritualism of the Shaker society or to the witticism of Duchamp and Dada? |
| A piquant witticism is not an expression of all this, but simply a travesty. |
| The proper response to a compliment is explicit gratitude, not a cynical, shrugging witticism. |
| In response to each new sally of witticism, the Indians would break into uncontrollable fits of merriment. |
| There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations. |
| Unlike its characters, real mafiosi are just as likely to be podgy and their women plain, and to have never uttered a witticism in their lives. |
