Jelinek has created a witty, sardonic creature, rather than the demure-seeming public Jackie familiar to Americans.
Cooke described the play as "a witty and acerbic look at the representation of women in the media".
As scriptwriter, Mr Yong partly retains the epistolary form of the novel and can turn a witty phrase.
Just listen to the title song, a witty commentary about the Internet and its pervasive impact on Brazilian culture.
Of course, the laughter of the book of Proverbs goes deeper than a good joke or a witty reply.
He describes them as a witty parody mix of Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and early Jean-Luc Godard gangster movies.
Babble: A community for new parents with advice, recipes, news and resources, plus a witty blog called Strollerderby.
The point is that an authentic dialogue with customers or a witty hashtag can elicit the organic response organizations are chasing.
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Even with a companion, I still tweet, then proudly chuckle when a witty friend takes my sarcasm ball and runs with it.
But it turned out that Pritzker, a witty conversationalist with a wry sense of humor, had plenty of other amusing stories to tell.
After all, a witty intro, a hoodie and a bag of Silly Valley pixie dust can only get you so far with that crowd.
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"Matilda: The Musical" is a witty musical adaptation of the novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground.
Such a view is a slanderous misjudgment, says Peter Gay, emeritus professor of history at Yale, whose new book is a witty and sophisticated defence of the Victorian middle class.
Another nonmusical highlight of the trip: a witty, revelatory lecture on the writer Flannery O'Connor, presented at her birthplace by Christopher Hope, the distinguished novelist and poet, who is also Daniel Hope's father.
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Thanks to the reboot of the James Bond matter in Casino Royale, we can no longer count on our protagonist (Daniel Craig) to save the day with a Walther PPK and a witty quip.
The show "Matilda, " which opened April 11 at Shubert Theatre, is a witty musical adaptation of the beloved novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground.
The English hit "Matilda, " which opened Thursday at Shubert Theatre, is a witty musical adaptation of the beloved novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground.
As I've grown older, I appreciate more than ever before the strength of this figure, Jesus, who emerges in the four canonical Gospels, and the Gnostic gospels, as a witty, intelligent, complex, inspiring, and often contradictory person.
It involved a woman Witty originally met at the Slug and Lettuce pub in Fulham, south-west London.
Everyone said it was a typically witty gesture by Lord Williams.
Can a woman be witty, and also have a love life and a job?
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Seems lost on the author to look back on history, a history in which Andrew Witty was a member of the Corporate Executive Team.
As I found over the years, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen Petraeus is a very pleasant and witty man, as well as a highly intelligent one.
He was "a wry and witty broadcaster of immense experience", according to Helen Boaden, controller of Radio 4.
"Borderless Economics, " a clear, witty and relatively short book, doesn't consider in much depth the passionate debates concerning the costs and benefits of immigration for developed nations.
In May 2007, a year before Witty took over as CEO, Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Steven Nissen published an analysis suggesting Avandia boosted the risk of heart attacks by 43%.
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