CBS also took advantage of Colbert's quick-wittedness by scheduling live shows after last summer's political conventions.
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This animal, however, is the first in the Chinese zodiac, which associates it with energy, optimism and quick-wittedness, not dirt and decay.
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If the play overreaches for effect, there's no trace of the sensational in Ms. Mulligan's performance, which is accompanied by a playfulness and quick-wittedness that bypass the gathering thesis-mongering of the final passages.
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Community handles this sentimentality well, which adds warmth to its quick-wittedness.
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Wisdom is subdivided into good sense, good calculation, quick-wittedness, discretion, and resourcefulness.
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Quickskill suggests speed and dexterity, quick-wittedness, the ability to improvise on the spot.
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A colourful exchange that relies on the quick-wittedness and ingenuity of both parties.
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In the real estate business since 1998, his quick-wittedness is a major advantage!
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That's the kind of bawdy quick-wittedness that has rescued Mr. Norton in the past.
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Clegg did not have the time, or the quick-wittedness, to come back at him.
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In his Cruiskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times, Myles produced a fountain of laughter and quick-wittedness.
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While a certain amount of quick-wittedness might be appropriate, a weekly test of macho strength is not.
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The real Frank Abagnale Jr. had the youth, looks, quick-wittedness and chutzpah that turn criminals into folk heroes.
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What miseries were endured, and what injustices were done, because well-intentioned leaders lacked the quality of moral quick-wittedness!
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Immediately likeable, he works with the audience rather than against them, displaying a keen quick-wittedness and an impressive improvisational skill.
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Mimi proposes a spirited quick-wittedness as an inventive, ethical response to the dilemmas posed by black and white encounters within modernity.
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Nor do they have the quick-wittedness to ad lib without humming and hawing, resorting to trite language, repeating themselves, and straying from the subject.
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For his eyes betrayed that his mind was fully alert and held all the liveliness and quick-wittedness that had made him the world's darling for so long.
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Our young human hero's humour, intelligence, quick-wittedness and swift reactions are contrasted with Boom's mischievousness, innocence and ingenuousness to give the series a particularly sweet, poetic charm.
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I have a lot respect for the British system, and the toughness and verbal facility and quick-wittedness of the British politicians who can handle this type of thing.
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Kean was popular with both the nobility, who admired the actor but reproached him for his aversion to stage decorum, and the general public, who applauded his panache and quick-wittedness.
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Around 40 literary events take place each year in the Tamil, English and Hindi Lits categories. These events generally witnesses the most number of participants who battle it out to win with their quick-wittedness.
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Morgiana and the Daf Morgiana () is a clever slave girl from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. She is initially in Cassim's household but on his death she joins his brother Ali Baba and through her quick-wittedness she saves Ali's life many times and eventually kills his worst enemy, the leader of the Forty Thieves. As reward, Ali frees her and Morgiana marries Ali's son.
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He soon realised that news reading and acting was not for him and got the opportunity to host a university challenge style tv show, "Takra" which made him a household name. His unique hosting style and quick- wittedness made him well known in Pakistan and overseas. He kept his two careers going side by side successfully without compromising one for the other. He also wrote daily columns and worked with different newspapers.
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Vincent Hubbard, played by Richard Blackwood, made his first screen appearance on 17 February 2015. The character and casting was announced on 17 January 2015. Blackwood praised bosses for the character of Vincent, stating he knew that his portrayal would surprise viewers given his comedy background. He is described on the BBC website as: 'a smooth operator, whose easy charm and quick wittedness covers a steely, ruthless streak and a reputation as a bit of a bad boy.
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He returned as a regular character on 21 April 2015. Blackwood praised bosses for the character of Vincent, stating he knew that his portrayal would surprise viewers given his comedy background. He is described on the BBC website as a smooth operator, whose easy charm and quick wittedness covers a steely, ruthless streak and a reputation as a bit of a bad boy. They also state that Vincent believes himself to be the "main man" in the room, and knows how to play people to his advantage.
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According to Otto, Homeric religion is expressed in the Apollon of Olympia, "a vivid representation of what is loftiest, most eminent, and at the same time brightest". Analysing the Homeric gods, Otto does not give Zeus a separate treatment, because all divinity converges in him. Athena belongs to the immediate present and the clarity of action, where she provides level-headedness, quick-wittedness and boldness for men, and skill in handicraft for women. Apollo and Artemis signify the distance between gods and humans and thus humanity's limitations.
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Hudhayfah had three qualities which particularly impressed Muhammad; his unique intelligence, quick wittedness, and his ability to keep a secret even under persistent questioning. A notable policy of Muhammad was to utilize the special strengths of each companion, carefully choosing the right man for the right task. A primary problem the Muslims encountered were hypocrites who had superficially accepted Islam while simultaneously plotting against the Muslim community. Because of Hudhayfah's ability to keep a secret, Muhammad told him the names of the hypocrites, a trust not bestowed upon others.
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One of his closest friends was Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, UW–Madison, whom he mentored since her undergraduate years at UW. She pre-deceased him by six months. His brilliance manifested at a young age, with insatiable curiosity, quick wittedness, an interest in right and wrong. He served in the US Army Airforce to fight fascism in WW II - the war ended before he was sent to a front, but living through that time of evil profoundly influenced his thinking and actions. His family lost family in Germany and throughout Europe.
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In 1851, Captain Louis Tardy de Montravel wrote that the city of Buenos Aires was stamped by French influence, French literature and language being there more widespread than anywhere else. According to him, this preference for France was not due to a capricious and brief craze, rather the result of a natural liking and a perfect similarity between French and Argentine characters, underlining the same lightness of being, the same quick-wittedness and liveliness, as well as the same kindness to foreigners and the similar ability for international influence.
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A female version of the tricky slave would be Morgiana, a clever slave girl from "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). She is initially in Cassim's household but on his death she joins his brother Ali Baba and through her quick-wittedness she saves Ali's life many times and eventually kills his worst enemy, the leader of the Forty Thieves. As reward, Ali frees her and Morgiana marries Cassim's son. There is a Korean folktale of The Cunning Servant.
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Osman Bölükbaşı stepped down from the post of the Nation Party's leadership in 1972. The reason of his quitting was the conflict of opinion within the party, and also finally injustice done by party members to Hasan Koçdemir, his close friend in active politics. On September 9, 1973, Bölükbaşı resigned from his post as the deputy of Ankara, he was holding since 1961, and left active politics five weeks before the 1973 general elections. Osman Bölükbaşı was a man of action and full of spirits, who won the sympathy of broad masses for his openness, straightforwardness, honesty, rhetoric, quick-wittedness and temperament.
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The second way a positive image of Ivan was created through folklore can be found by looking at examples that show Ivan was “an enemy of the boyar”. Through tales such as “The Potter”, we see how the tsar was often depicted as siding with the commoner against the boyars and other aristocratic individuals. Throughout “The Potter” a friendship develops between Ivan and a common potter. The tsar is attracted to the potter because of his ability to answer riddles. Because the tsar is impressed by his quick wittedness, he vows that, “if you (referring to the potter) stick to me, and I’ll stick to you”.
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Rowbotham started out as an organiser of an Owenite commune in The Fens, where he formulated his theories about the Earth. After measuring a lack of curvature on the long straight drainage ditches of the Bedford Levels in his first Bedford Level experiment, he was convinced of the flatness of the Earth and began to lecture on the topic. He took a little time to learn his trade, running away from a lecture in Blackburn when he couldn't explain why the hulls of ships disappeared before their masts when sailing out to sea. However, as he persisted in filling halls by charging sixpence a lecture, his quick-wittedness and debating skills were honed so much that he could "counter every argument with ingenuity, wit and consummate skill".
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1945. p. 208. Through this story we see that a friendship between the tsar and the potter develops out of the mutual dislike of the boyars. We are also provided with evidence that the tsar is more willing to help the common potter than he is the boyar. In addition, the tsar is attracted to the potter's quick wittedness and consequently he was more willing to help the witty man from the lower social classes than he was the “stupid” middle- upper class boyars. Finally, this story is an example of Haney's claim that through many folktales, Ivan is depicted as a “resolute but compassionate and an enlightened ruler, anxious to protect the peasants from the landowners, and he goes to some extraordinary lengths to do so”.
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