We have got great parents – my dad is incredibly quick-witted.
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But Roseanne Barr is not her character — a quick-witted everymom.
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He was in his early 40s, mordant, cynical, and quick-witted.
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So a quick-witted Trump jab isn't out of the question.
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There are other quick-witted people out in the world. Sure.
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Maybe he's quick-witted and mischievous and even silly in real life.
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They like to be around people as quick-witted as they are.
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"She was funny, fun, exasperating, silly, stubborn, quick-witted, quirky," Robinson said.
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All seven seasons of this quick witted comedy are available to stream.
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Quick witted, hilarious on paper and in person, and just plain beloved.
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Mr. Kelleher's quick-witted, down-home observations were legend in the industry.
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Tell a few quick-witted, bawdy jokes to lift the energy around you.
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Here are the rest of our favorites, all courtesy of quick-witted redditors.
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Tall, ebullient and quick-witted, Elias arrived in Washington hoping to practice criminal law.
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"He also writes very fast, which indicates he's quick-witted and impatient," Koo added.
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"[He is] chatty, quick-witted, and has his eye on an ever-changing prize."
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Mercury in Gemini folks are quick-witted and know a little bit about everything.
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Richardson, an affable, quick-witted Londoner, is not like most people in the business.
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"Streaming has made me more interesting, more quick witted, more outgoing and extroverted," MaverickRPDM says.
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Cruz, usually self-assured, quick-witted and policy-fluent, took a long, three-beat pause.
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He is talkative and quick-witted, quick to dispel the meathead stereotypes attached to bodybuilders.
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They are handsome and charming, quick-witted and exuberant, observant, obsessive, and, of course, neurotic.
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He's unpredictable, quick-witted, and has a gift for cutting his opponents to their core.
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Our hearts open to each other on Tuesday, when quick-witted Mercury sextiles lucky Jupiter.
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A relative newcomer to the Congress, Kennedy's folksy, quick-witted sound bites have garnered attention.
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Quick-witted and popular, if not with teachers, Mr Hu shrugged off efforts to control him.
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It looks just as quick-witted as you'd expect a series from Sherman-Palladino to be.
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The women's maternal instincts are helped by the fact that they are steely and quick-witted.
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The show's nurturing sex coach clearly plays off Dodson's quick-witted, sexpot-fairy godmother hybrid vibe.
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Known for his quick-witted trash-talk, Mayorga's comments have been at the very least entertaining.
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Each of them feature a quick-witted slogan and are made in less than two hours.
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This is a Hempel narrator, after all: dreamy, quick-witted, toggling between tenderness, irony, and rage.
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"A script so quick-witted poor Henry would turn in his grave," said Musical Theater Review.
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Blunt, brash and quick-witted, Mr. Li's experience epitomized the hopes and disappointments of a generation.
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Action planet Mars enters quick-witted Gemini on March 31, finding you very busy at work.
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The most engrossing of all the characters is Sudhindranath Datta, a young, "handsome and quick-witted" Bengali.
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He was charming and quick-witted, those who knew him say, and was always making people laugh.
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Boyd's sharp-tongued, quick-witted wife Kannika puts in long hours at the gym alongside her husband.
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He is the master of the show but, as a quick-witted, intelligent man, he knows this.
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But in a footnote, Justice Kagan offers a quick-witted retort to her fellow Obama appointee's reading.
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That entails blocking your rude impulses, understanding how situations change in real time and being quick-witted.
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In the comics, Dante is quick-witted and helps patrol the land between the communities for walkers.
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Tropper's sharp, quick-witted humor cuts through the grief and will make you literally laugh out loud.
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But Ms. Kennedy is a searing, quick-witted woman, who sleeps each night in Mexico with a .
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His heroine, Aurora Greenway, a caustic Houston widow with Connecticut roots, is quick-witted, amorous and matriarchal.
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I found myself pleasantly surprised by the quick-witted middle-aged man having lunch across from me.
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Warrior planet Mars in quick-witted Gemini will help your crack the case in whatever's been bugging you.
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Mayor Naheed Nenshi is a quick-witted urban wonk, and the city has a diverse and educated population.
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Lazi makes a series of friends — all of them quick-witted, mournful and queer, but each uniquely so.
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In real life, the actor is far mellower than Jaime, though he is every bit as quick-witted.
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Quick-witted and energetic, Cowley spent his days composing music, and nights hitting the clubs and cruising the bathhouses.
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That was another quick-witted, low-budget horror-thriller which balanced good old-fashioned scares with incisive social commentary.
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He's in danger from all directions, but he's quick-witted enough to be up to the challenges he faces.
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Bledel, of course, starred as the bookish and quick-witted Rory Gilmore on the WB series for seven seasons.
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You will be more candid and quick-witted now with Mercury, planet of communication, on your side as well.
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Keep your party budget in mind on Tuesday when quick-witted Mercury clashes with Jupiter, the planet of excess.
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She's quick-witted, loving, and wise beyond her years; Haney's dialogue is some of the strongest in Raising Dion.
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Quick-witted and pugnacious, his election rallies have drawn large crowds and opinion polls indicate that his popularity has surged.
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In the foreword, Bourdain praised Hagerty as a hard-working, quick-witted food writer with deep knowledge of her community.
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His playing style echoes his personality, which his wife Heather Ito describes as interesting and quick-witted, yet ironically oblivious.
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People born during years of the monkey (such as 1992 and 1980) are typically seen as smart and quick-witted.
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Five feet tall and a total oddball, she carries the plot by being engagingly self-deprecating, quick-witted and funny.
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I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, bighearted and narrow.
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The "it" we're referring to wasn't quick-witted responses or even a clear articulation of their stance on the issues.
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Alice, quick-witted and harsh, is not conventionally "likable," and she does not exhibit much by way of soul-searching.
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There's ample action but nothing is snappier than the repartee between the quick-witted female stars, both born New Yorkers.
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Lauryn Kahn's quick-witted script punches up every interaction, and it doesn't hurt to hear Madden in his natural Scottish brogue.
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Dr. Grossman is short and charismatic, a quick-witted Montreal native who has mentored me since I began training in neurology.
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Mennonite women come to full and fearsome life in Molotschna; brilliant and angry and quick-witted, impossible to ignore or diminish.
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His voice, a gravelly, soul-filled rasp, allows him to transform from quick-witted rapper into smooth-talking Lothario with ease.
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Quick-witted with a sharp tongue, the feisty Barbara Bush was a fierce defender of her husband and an astute adviser.
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That second notebook revealed Ivan as a quick-witted, rather crotchety bachelor who liked playing practical jokes on those around him.
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Mr. Jaswa swiftly cleared his calendar and over a beverage and quick-witted conversation attempted to extend their meeting into dinner.
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Despite her great success, the quick-witted icon continues to value hard work, which she says is her fountain of youth.
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Still, he had several strong moments that will remind Democrats about how he is an effective, quick-witted and charismatic communicator.
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They supplied quick-witted, slang-driven repartee that felt both revelatory and reassuring for dugout conversations and meetings on the mound.
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This quick-witted sign will pick up on the funniest little things in movies that you can have a laugh about afterwards.
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They're not usually that eloquent, these flamers, so it was easy for me to make them look dumb through quick-witted responses.
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Enter Becky Sharp, the ambitious and quick-witted status seeker who transgresses so many of the staid conventions of 19th century women.
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Each character is flawed and likable, particularly Lady Bird (Ms Ronan)—a moody, pimply teenager, who is quick-witted, mercurial and observant.
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Despite a lifetime devoted to the limelight, in her quiet moments Gabor was known to be quick-witted, shrewd and nobody's fool.
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Mr. McGregor's Jesus is quick-witted, with a keen, worldly intelligence and curiosity and the impulse to make friends and help people.
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She's not a genius or even especially quick-witted, but she can still whip out a sharp line every now and then.
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Books of The Times Daniel Mendelsohn is a classics scholar, a translator, a memoirist and a quick-witted literary and television critic.
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The moon was in Sagittarius, the most erudite of the signs, and the communication planet Mercury had just entered quick-witted Gemini.
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She was independent and quick-witted with a keen sense of fun, but Capone was as good at trading quips as she was.
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This despite widespread comments that it was largely Kimmel's quick-witted humor that salvaged - to the extent possible - the thoroughly cringe-inducing situation.
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While it certainly retains the quick-witted profanity of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, it's deeply invested in the people of Ebbing, Missouri.
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Online, Jemisin is an active, quick-witted commentator, lacing her posts—about politics or about the writing life—with zingers and tart observations.
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Release Date: 2017 Shifting from allegories (High Rise) to bullets, Ben Wheatley's latest finds the quick-witted British director just having a good time.
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Less quick-witted than his older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, now a federal judge, he was also more welcoming of outsiders than his father.
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Mr Trump is quick-witted, charismatic and, during years as a reality television star, has built an outrageous public persona around his gargantuan ego.
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Luckily, the cast has no shortage of experience when it comes to dealing with quick-witted callers and guests or off-the-wall characters.
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The salty mainstream wouldn't have such a problem with Gemini if the quick-witted air sign simply gave us a second to catch up.
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But framing the conflict between Elizabeth and Mary as one between an anxious, barren tyrant and a quick-witted underdog is just plain wrong.
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But Stallworth's own performance — as a black-hating white guy eager to defend the Aryan race — required some quick-witted improvisation of his own.
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One is Emma Stone's performance as a fresh-faced, quick-witted Los Angeles girl next door who happens to be an aspiring movie star.
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Netflix description: In a series of magical missions, quick-witted YooHoo and his can-do crew travel the globe to help animals in need.
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I hope he sheds the robe of the cynical mystic, and comes back as a quick-witted jokester who can take all comers, himself included.
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You don't even have to be a fan of most mega-famous celebrities in order to appreciate their sharp responses and quick-witted lampoons online.
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The Moon enters busy, quick-witted Gemini at 12:58 PM and Venus enters down-to-earth Virgo at 10:32 PM. All Times EST.
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Mercury enters Aries at 2:35 AM, finding us more quick-witted and impulsive than we were while it was in dreamy water sign Pisces.
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In a career that lasted decades and led her to testify before Congress, she proved to be quick-witted, adept with disguises and unblinkingly skeptical.
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" Ms. Milano, 46, made a name for herself as the quick-witted Samantha Micelli, daughter to Tony Danza's character on the 103s sitcom "Who's the Boss?
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In fact, her heroines, often quick-witted and bright, sometimes seem more at home in the modern era, a time when expectations for women are broader.
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Yet here we are, a dozen hours without a single word from the trim, clear-eyed, nattily dressed, quick-witted, hopelessly ethical and enthusiastic Agent Cooper.
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Sara and Erin Foster are known for their quick-witted sense of humor, but the actresses and Bumble entrepreneurs get serious when it comes to skincare.
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An alchemical blend of quick-witted talent, disarming thoughtfulness, and casual charm, Waithe has the coveted ability of making a character likable just by being herself.
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Ms. Wade's conceit, clever without ever turning arch, allows her an onstage surrogate in the form of the bristling, quick-witted Laura (a terrific Louise Ford).
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Co-created by Armando Iannucci, the show has that same quick-witted and frantic energy as Veep (which he also created), but takes place in space.
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Khloé Kardashian has always been the best at defending her family with quick-witted retorts on Twitter, and now she's standing up for herself this way too.
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Yang appeals to SIlicon Valley tech types in part because of his straightforward and quick-witted responses, which are delivered with with few political embellishments or emotions.
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Until recently Mr Selmayr, a quick-witted, baby-faced 47-year-old German, served as chief of staff to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission.
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Obvious, perhaps, but a quick-witted photographer can also sort of avoid the problem by switching into fully manual mode on both the flash and the camera.
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Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 0%Downey Jr. is known for portraying the quick-witted Tony Stark/Iron Man in the "Iron Man" and "Avengers" franchise since 2008.
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He's Westernized but rooted in the East; he's wise, quick-witted and surprisingly funny, and these happen to be precisely the qualities she values most in friends.
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They're soon taken prisoner by moon men, but a quick-witted astronomer clobbers the king and they escape, with one earthling vanquishing moon men with an umbrella.
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Ms. Romilly isn't quite the quick-witted Beatrice of one's dreams: One thinks warmly of Eve Best in the same role at this theater six years ago.
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Quick-witted and energetic, Cianci was a political star in ascent, an "ethnic" who gave the Wonder Bread Republicans of the 1970s some cover to feign diversity.
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But over the past two years it’s also become a source of some of the internet’s most quick-witted, thought-provoking, and ambitious memes.
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They featured an adorable, curly-hair little girl with a craving for Pepsi and a quick-witted response to any waiter that deprived her of the fizzy soda.
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"Do you want to be a baby mama or a wife?" she sneers at Williams, "Oh baby, I'm already a fiancée!" the quick-witted reality star claps back.
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But long before McCook became a quick-witted, tv-show-having, Russian drag queen, he was just another nice Catholic boy, growing up in the suburbs of Boston.
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Her showcase aria, "Je dis que rien," had true glamour thanks to a tone of lean, quick-witted elegance, as well the occasional, well-placed touch of luster.
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The sharp and quick-witted comedian, perhaps best known for her role as Tiffany on the wildly popular HBO show, "Insecure," returns to headline the stage at Carolines.
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He is quick-witted but crass, his lavish spending habits recalling for some the gross materialism that defined the rise and collapse of last decade's Celtic Tiger economy.
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Tuesday the 29th has Mercury, the messenger of gods, moving out of slow-thinking Taurus into quick-witted and fast-paced Gemini after a brilliant full moon in Sagittarius.
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While she's much more willing to give a long, detailed answer than Pop—most people are—she's equally as gifted at the art of the quick-witted sarcastic reply.
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As for the other candidates, for the first time they will get an opportunity to brand Trump as weak without his quick witted responses that usually deflect the attacks.
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For Gemini, who are born between 21 May and 21 June, these characteristics are as follows: expressive, quick-witted, communicative and able to embody two different personalities in one.
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But his portrayal of a teenage intellectual with a great face and subpar social skills was so convincing, he immediately became a quick-witted oddball in the public imagination.
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Played by adorable, eight-year-old actress Daria Johns in her first major screen role, Zoe is a quick-witted, curly-haired tomboy whose single father encourages her individuality.
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She'd heard from a high-school friend who ran a factory outside of Murmansk, in the Far North, and who needed a quick-witted assistant with a college degree.
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"The Travelers" does confirm what Mr. Pavone's first two books have established: that when it comes to quick-witted, breathless thrillers that trot the globe, his are top-tier.
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His fin de siècle hero — a sensualist, as is Boyd's wont in his young male stars — is Brodie Moncur, a quick-witted Scot with a gift for tuning pianos.
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" He advised, "Republican voters should nominate a stalwart, quick-witted conservative whose immigrant roots and modest means make him a far more elusive target for Clinton's slings and arrows.
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" Zimbabwean TV host and producer Vimbai Mutinhiri told CNN: "The Mugabe I knew was a quick-witted man, with an incredible sense of humor and a totally disarming presence.
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" Zimbabwean TV host and producer Vimbai Mutihinri told CNN: "The Mugabe I knew was a quick-witted man, with an incredible sense of humor and a totally disarming presence.
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Bold, strong and quick-witted, you have a BS detector like no other sign — and your pals know better than to lie to you or pull any funny business.
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AMC already rolled the dice with a spinoff based around quick-witted Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) and surprised everyone with a show that may even be better than the original.
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Badgers, ferrets and otters are part of the mustelid family: quick-witted carnivores who are capable of competing for food with much larger predators like big cats, wolves and bears.
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The quick-witted, sharp-tongued judge will step down as the chief justice of Delaware's Supreme Court, after years of overseeing cases that shaped the laws governing most U.S. companies.
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Quick-witted, quick-tempered Kate is an early forerunner of later Shakespearian heroines like Beatrice and Rosalind, never content to say a word when she can pun on it instead.
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Beneath the cocky and quick-witted Pussy Willow character there's a deep understanding of the fetish—of both the men that pay to submit and the women that tap them out.
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Even though Badgley's character is unhinged, violent, and his need to "protect" Beck is completely misguided, he also manages to be charming, quick-witted, and looks great in his work apron.
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As Michael's quick-witted, self-deprecating humor moves from pleasing to punching to pathetic, so too does Parsons peel back his own charm, leaving him raw and fragile by show's end.
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The quick-witted rapper Cassidy used freestyling to matriculate through the city, which granted him a short career in the early 2000s until he was sentenced to involuntary manslaughter in 2006.
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GLUE is a 50-minute portrait of the director Oisín Byrne's friend and longtime collaborator, a quick-witted and acid-tongued cross-dresser who refuses to adhere to a fixed identity.
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Those scenes are interlaced with domestic encounters with two children, who remain unseen but nevertheless seem to demand every reserve of energy that this quick-witted, expletive-prone woman can muster.
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On his way to her funeral, Shadow meets the quick-witted Mr. Wednesday (McShane) and suddenly finds himself sucked into his otherworldly orbit of with no earthly clue what's going on.
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"Always and Forever, Lara Jean" captures the essence of modern teen romance and pleases its readers with beloved characters, like Kitty Covey (Lara Jean's quick-witted little sister), and humorous conversations.
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Her character (whom we only ever know as "Fleabag") is a quick-witted, casually selfish woman who speaks directly to the audience as if we're a stand-in for her diary.
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Mr. Mitchell, quick-witted and single, operates from an office near the historic Salem Baptist Church in Jenkintown, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb; he has served as the church's pastor since 2012.
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Surrounded by a large crowd of spectators, the two actors made their quarrel immediate and plausible, and the sharp, quick-witted dialogue laid out the moral stakes without ever being preachy.
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Margaret's "boarding house" is the aforementioned rowdy cathouse, set up in a colorful but crumbling Covent Garden building filled with girls whose greatest asset just might be their quick-witted sass.
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But while Billy and Elijah prided themselves on their quick-witted sass, arguably a defense mechanism to survive the ruthlessness of the city and of their chosen careers, Cary is decidedly demure.
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Yi Chen, program coordinator at the University of Arizona's Confucius Institute, told Refinery29 that people born during years of the monkey are typically seen as smart and quick-witted, but also irritable.
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In a 2015 study published in Psychological Science, he reported that, contrary to his expectation, being quick-witted was a better predictor of charisma than having a great personality or being smart.
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At the first presence of real conflict, Simon's response has always been to use violence, even if he has tended to be among the more cunning and quick-witted of the Saviors.
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That makes the unfettered moments on the debate stage — a late return from the bathroom; a quick-witted response; a rare moment of self-reflection — important in trying to understand Mrs. Clinton.
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The camera guy asks Joey if he plans to rejoin the band after its 2 Grammy gigs ... prompting the rock star to give a quick-witted answer, followed by a huge smile.
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To keep the zoo from being closed, the quick-witted couple come up with the idea of converting it into a hog farm, which would produce meat to feed the German soldiers.
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From his office at 60 Centre Street, the large, rumpled and quick-witted Mr. Goodman commanded a ringside view of human nature, especially where the arts of posturing and prevarication are concerned.
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Their song — an ode to the quick-witted sheriff (Cleavon Little) who "conquered fear and he conquered hate" — brought Mr. Morris and Mr. Brooks an Academy Award nomination for best original song.
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Ms. Konnikova's central contention is that practically all of us — prosperous or penniless, quick-witted or dull — are susceptible to charlatans, for the simple reason that we possess a basic instinct to trust.
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There's Margot — who's quick-witted and popular, thin despite deplorable eating habits, and recently fired from her job — and Lily, a perky athlete with a ninja-themed YouTube fitness channel and 900,000 followers.
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Punchlines go by at a manic pace, and the overstuffed plot suggests the writers expect a quick-witted audience who don't need a story center as long as funny stuff keeps piling up.
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" Greenberg also has never written for streaming television, which, crowded with well-spoken, almost implausibly quick-witted characters, is undoubtedly indebted to his plays, whether it's HBO's "Succession" or Apple's "The Morning Show.
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We knew her as Rita Louise Watson, the quick-witted school girl in 1993's Sister Act 2, and as the charismatic artist who often outrapped Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel in the Fugees.
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NeNe Leakes — the outspoken reality star known for her larger-than-life attitude, quick-witted reads and very rich bank account — is returning to The Real Housewives of Atlanta for its upcoming 29th season.
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His return to television for Netflix was announced in August 2017, when the quick-witted host said that Pope Francis and President Donald Trump would be top of his wish-list for the series.
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Horror films often rely on characters making dumb decisions and being punished for them, but after the initial bad decision here, the characters have to be admirably quick-witted and intelligent to stay alive.
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The Cameroonian seven-footer is as fleet-footed as he is quick-witted, and the lethal combination is ruffling feathers of opponents as he brushes past them en route to claiming his superstar status.
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Quick-witted, smart, authoritative and funny, Mr. Ince is a family man, a nationalist who has at times reached out to the Kurds, and a Muslim who attends Friday prayers but also drinks alcohol.
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Paul claims a solemn "duty" to remember Susan as she was when they first met—a quick-witted, charming woman in a tennis dress—but finally this lover's allegiance is to himself, and himself alone.
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For those who are not super fans of the films, Byrne played Pansy Parkinson, the quick-witted Slytherin who inspired loads of fan fiction about her relationship with everyone's favorite bully and villain, Draco Malfoy.
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The Missing with its quick-witted ability to thread though so many different storylines, all while traveling between various timeframes and locations in each episode, the series has never failed to keep viewers' full attention.
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Natty and quick-witted, though he has shed his once-signature bow-tie, Mr. Carlson splits his time between preppy enclaves like Georgetown and Maine, and was a magazine writer before turning to television punditry.
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The performers, famous for their quick-witted spontaneity and mold-breaking audacity, occasionally read quotations from pieces of paper taped to the church's pillars — potential buoys in an improvisational ocean with few breezes of inspiration.
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Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
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Binge length: Eight hours, one series Based on the best-selling book by series creator Benjamin Law, The Family Law is a hilarious, heartbreaking and quick-witted comedy-drama centred around the author's Chinese-Australian family.
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With Mercury in this sign, your mind will be especially sharp—you're quick-witted to begin with, but I truly feel sorry for anyone who stuck trying to debate you with unbeatable Aries's energy behind you.
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Terry Downes, a quick-witted middleweight boxing champion from Britain, nicknamed the Paddington Express, who became wealthy outside the ring by investing in legal betting shops and later did a bit of acting, died on Oct.
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Bobby Heenan, a professional wrestler who found greater success managing other wrestlers and working as a quick-witted commentator, becoming one of the most colorful figures in a flamboyant business, died on Sunday in Tampa, Fla.
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Ryder is a perversely aspirational figure here—half of an attractive, rebellious couple, stylish (she even rocks a monocle), and quick-witted—but she's also down to earth in her feelings of frustration and angsty diary scribblings.
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Mean Mary also has two races with Brisnet speed figures within three points of par — a résumé line only Quick Witted and Over Thinking can match — and a 4-3-1-23 record on the turf, too.
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We may be living in a cool, cool world, but as long as Paretsky's hotheaded, quick-witted sleuth is on the job, imperiled young women and the artistic riches of vulnerable nations will always have a champion.
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It was an auspicious national debut for Mr. Nelson, who in the 215s and '22014s was one of the stars of the golden age of ventriloquism, performing with Danny and with Farfel, a quick-witted hound dog.
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Distinct personalities shine through: Lena's calm resilience in the face of family chaos, Sage's quick-witted observations on feminism and race, Olivia's tentative—then bold—coming out, and Ginger's shedding of the naïvety that's been holding her back.
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The shaven-skulled, quick-witted Jimmy confronts Ian with the hard look and menacing, I-dare-you manner of a thug, but he's probably good company on an ordinary day, as long as no one sets him off.
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While the humor on the show may not be as quick-witted or highbrow as you are used to, you'll be refreshed in getting into a show like Brooklyn Nine-Nine that wears its humor on its sleeve.
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And for my youngest — a quick-witted, freckly kindergartner — it was also the 288th morning I listened for wheezing and checked to see if his chest was retracting, a sign his lungs were working too hard to breathe.
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The show is driven by female characters, including a kind but sickly empress, murderous concubines and—at the heart of the 803-episode epic—Wei Yingluo, a quick-witted, justice-seeking maid, who rises to become Qianlong's beloved consort.
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Zosia Mamet plays the fast-talking, quick-witted and overly accessorized Shoshanna Shapiro on the hit HBO show, Girls, but off-screen, the actress is so far separated from her character (think: easygoing, down-to-earth and super casual).
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As far as athlete Saturday Night Live hosts go, Rousey wasn't as good as the perennially funny and quick-witted Rock, but she was nowhere near as secondhand embarrassment-inducing as the shockingly wooden hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, either.
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Midge is slightly more grating than before, but she's still quick-witted and prime to get a laugh – and you can't help envy this woman and world in which a paramount concern is a swimsuit competition in the Catskills.
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The Bay Area rapper, who's been deemed up next by fellow Bay brethren E-22000, has a quick witted flow that feels effortless, as demonstrated on the slippery "Back Out" and bouncy "Bass Head," the project's two standout tracks.
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Mr. Westman, by contrast, was utterly composed — thoughtful, quick-witted and funny as he talked about his induction into the world of a juggernaut show whose power and scale didn't quite hit him until he'd already won the job.
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The show, which starred Nigel Hawthorne as the civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby, mined comic gold out of his masterful handling of his boss, portraying him as wily, quick-witted and cheerfully Machiavellian as he blocked ill-conceived projects.
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And how sorrowful and jubilant, as life in a storefront taxi company in an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh comes to feel like a free-form urban concerto, shaped by the quick-witted, improvisatory spirit that makes jazz soar.
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Quick-witted, confident and comfortable on television, Ms. Conway, a mother of four, was a powerful force in driving women to vote for Mr. Trump; in one election surprise, 53 percent of white women did, according to exit polls.
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To gloss over the film's controversial plot Roberts needed to be convincing enough as a quick-witted sex worker with an edge, all the while suggesting a tenderness that would and did endear her to Richard Gere's Edward and audiences alike.
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Unusually friendly to the foreign media for a senior Chinese official, Wang has won plaudits in China for his tough line on issues like the disputed South China Sea and quick-witted - sometimes bad-tempered quips - to counter criticism of China.
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With Lady Olenna out of the game, there's no living soul in the Seven Kingdoms left to provide a quick-witted retort, offer a knowing side-eyed glance, or sneakily produce a vial of poison for one particularly virulent boy king.
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Currently exhibited at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art in London, GLUE is a 50-minute portrait of Byrne's friend and longtime collaborator Gary Farrelly, a quick-witted and acid-tongued cross-dresser who refuses to adhere to a fixed identity.
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At the time of their meeting, Mr. Williams was studying for a law degree at St. John's, and Ms. Quinlan was already working at JPMorgan and living in Hoboken, N.J. "He was very handsome and extremely quick-witted," Ms. Quinlan said.
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In one, Thorsten Lensing's quick-witted and energetic version of the novel "Infinite Jest," the four hours miraculously whiz by as six nimble actors appear in multiple roles in a reduced version of David Foster Wallace's 1,000-page postmodern epic.
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Like the Croatian director's recent production of "Anna Karenina" at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, this "Hamletmaschine" has an engaging intensity that owes much to the actors's quick-witted performances, but it goes off the rails toward the end.
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That quick-witted reply of his stayed with me, though I can't say that it made me feel any happier as I trudged around the rest of this giant cradle-to-grave, from-Warhola-to-Warhol Warholfest at Tate Modern.
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Just as she herself measured only five-foot-two in her pantyhose, the sidekick is always a short-waisted, quick-witted, eternally loyal friend (Valentine O'Neill in "Scruples" and Kiki Kavanaugh in "Princess Daisy") whose abiding passion is for beautiful, well-made clothes.
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"Triangle" (season 229, episode 25) Jane Espenson, who wrote "Triangle," is one of the most reliable comic voices in the Buffy writers' room, and this episode is just about what you'd expect from her: quick-paced, quick-witted, and lots of fun.
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On Wednesday, the quick-witted Ophira Eisenberg welcomes the actor and comedian Nick Kroll, of Netflix's "Big Mouth" and "Kroll Show" on Comedy Central, to her NPR game show, where he'll take on whatever quiz questions and brainteasers she throws his way.
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You often hear that what you get on Twitter isn't real life, and that apparently also applies to Bloomberg, who has shown a tendency on Twitter to be quick witted and entertaining, but who left much to be desired on the debate stage.
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The Moon enters quick-witted Gemini at 3:29 PM, then clashes with Mercury at 5:54 PM and with Mars at 10:42 PM. Think before you speak, take care to be kind, and realize that everyone will be impulsive this evening.
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At the same time, talented polemicists from the red side of the spectrum — the quick-witted Republican strategist Rick Wilson, the tireless Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, the prose stylist Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal — have found something to like in Democrats.
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For many years, every quick-witted, fleet-footed playmaker from Argentina had to labor under the weight of being labeled "the next Maradona," a tag that was variously applied to players as diverse as Ariel Ortega, Pablo Aimar, Juan Román Riquelme and Carlos Tevez.
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Earnhardt, the son of Dale Earnhardt Sr., the seven-time Nascar champion who died at the 2001 Daytona 500, has won the series' most popular driver award 14 straight times, largely because of his talent, bloodlines and demeanor, seemingly quick-witted and fun-loving.
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In her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Clinton said that Trump was someone so weak that he could "be baited with a tweet"—and in the debates she proved, again and again, that he can be baited by a sharp, quick-witted woman too.
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The moon's flight into intellectually-inspired Aquarius offers a breath of fresh air between May 23 and 25, especially when it harmoniously links up with the sun at 123:39 PM and Mercury at 2:01 AM in quick-witted Gemini on May 23 and 24, respectively.
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Lopez, a pop-culture legend in her own right, doesn't so much peel away the layers of her stardom as repurpose them, channeling her exuberant physicality and her quick-witted self-assurance into a performance that is finely calibrated in its realism and brazen in its theatrics.
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No one besides Lindner deserves more credit for the FDP's revival after its disastrous 2013 election result than the 65-year-old Kubicki, a quick-witted lawyer who sails around on his yacht "Liberty" and is known as one of the most outspoken, colorful figures in German politics.
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Seven months after the storm, the quick-witted 50-year-old with chestnut hair and a warm smile has become the de facto mayor of "El Super Ocho," or Super 8, the beige motel in the shadow of Disney World where she lives with her husband and two children.
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For seven blissful years we had the pleasure of living vicariously through the lives of the quirky, quick-witted and caffeinated characters of Stars Hollow, and after years of filling our Gilmore-voids by watching re-runs and drinking obscenely large quantities of coffee, the girls are back.
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While other late-night hosts have hunkered down in their studios to crank out political monologues and battle for ratings, Conan O'Brien has taken a different tack, meandering to Mexico, Haiti, Israel and more in search of strange foods, unusual customs and quick-witted locals to skewer his hairdo.
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Thankfully, the past 12 months added up to a remarkable year for new albums, whether you were pumping your fists to Beyoncé's independence-declaring Lemonade, nodding your head to Pinegrove's Americana-anthem collection Cardinal, or wrapping your brain around Chance the Rapper's quick-witted, big-hearted verses on Coloring Book.
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With a three-part structure, it begins by following the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives.
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" Then when Trump said in 2015 that some parts of London had become so radicalized that police fear for their lives, Johnson — who is known for quick-witted (if perhaps eccentric) responses — retorted that "the only reason I wouldn't visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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" Another Judiciary Committee Republican, the quick-witted Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said he would change his stance against acting on a nominee under one condition: "If Schumer could pass a lie detector that he would not do what we're doing if the shoe was on the other foot, I might change.
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Back at Ms. Knoll's apartment building, neighbors described her as a "typical Parisian lady" who would wear a hat and white gloves, and who used to get a haircut every two weeks — a "very coquettish, quick-witted lady who liked to gossip about the neighborhood's life," according to her hairdresser, Isabelle Sucher.
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"As Venus, goddess of love, leaves behind the grounded caution of Capricorn, to enter quick-witted and eccentric Aquarius, we will all feel liberated from the traditional ways we have been experiencing the last month to adopt a more unconventional and upbeat approach to love and money," Narayana Montúfar, Senior Astrologer at Astrology.
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There's the 2002 BBC Film "The Falklands Play," a fast-paced, quick-witted movie about the Falklands War in which the great British actress Patricia Hodge ("Betrayal") portrays Margaret Thatcher, a performance that actually gives Meryl Streep's portrayal of the British prime minister in "The Iron Lady," from 2011, a run for its money.
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But Eastwood doesn't just show us the cockpit; he tracks the frightened passengers, the quick-witted rescuers, the air traffic controller who tries to guide the plane toward an airport, as well as the New Yorkers who watched with fear as the plane flew low over the city and then celebrated Sully as a hero for keeping everyone alive.
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Jacob A. Stein, a quick-witted Washington lawyer who won the only major acquittal of a Watergate defendant, gained immunity for the former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky to testify against President Bill Clinton and, as an independent counsel, cleared Edwin Meese 22007d to become attorney general in 22010, died on April 3 at his home in Washington.
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She's made a name for herself thanks to her sarcastic and quick-witted sense of humor, undying love for Chipotle, and epic YouTube videos on Shay's channel giving viewers a BTS tour of the Pretty Little Liars set or going on some ridiculous errand for Shay (like finding human hair to scare off rodents in her garden) in the "Send Sammy" series.
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There will be music nightly in Gustavia and reservations for tables with views at Bonito, one of the chic places to dine on a chic island; a gathering spot where the actress Uma Thurman was parked at a corner table with friends last week while the quick-witted bartenders deftly whipped up tropical cocktails at 18 euros a pop for the well-tanned.
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Screenshot: Kevin Klauer (Twitter)Good night, sweet prince: An out of control, apparently furious, and driverless catering cart that was spinning in wild circles on the tarmac of Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) on Monday was laid to its final rest by a quick-witted worker who prevented it from hitting a plane by slamming into it with another vehicle.
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In some ways, the central dynamic is a contrast between brains and brawn: Archer (Mick Ford), an older, quick-witted prisoner, makes a point of stretching the rules as far as bureaucracy will allow, while the newcomer Carlin (a young, barely recognizable Ray Winstone) knows that the way to survive in an environment where even the officials tacitly egg on violence is to be seen as the most ruthless guy there.
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White's writing, with his depiction of a returning rainstorm or the slow wanderings of his tortoise, is great literature at a perfect pace, every creature dressed and portrayed in quick-witted adjectives; and he enthralls us with his knowledge of crickets, who are a "thirsty race," who "open communications from one room to another" and who can sometimes foretell the death of a near relation or the approach of an absent lover.
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But it also can't be denied that Ritchie, who hasn't been deemed a director of creative interest since his early Lock, Stock ... and Snatch days, and certainly least of all for his hugely lucrative Sherlock Holmes entries, does pull off some quick-witted and clever sequences here; he doesn't want to bore or approach narrative conventionally, so he's found ways of conveying a good deal of information very quickly, taking an aggressive approach to supplying backstory and never ever slipping into solemnity or sanctimony.
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