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Wittiness Bennet, Elizabeth lively and clever character. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice] “wit’s pedler” and “an ape of form.” [Br. Lit.: Love’s Labour’s Lost] clever, comic foil to Romeo. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] |
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Dent's college editorials range from his measured pronouncements as a serious undergraduate political science major and history minor in the role of journalist to the playful wittiness that became a telling feature in his later writings. It is this humanity, meant as a most eminent civil virtue, that becomes construed by Pontano as wittiness (facetudo), in its possibility of joyful pleasantness, and becomes for him the distinctive trait of a man faithful to the value of culture. Deprived of a centuries-old architectural history to rebel against, the Ant Farmers integrated architecture with art, design, and video, all with a singular wittiness. |
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