The music and lyrics tend toward a generic bittersweetness, though Mr. Katz has a knockout song in the haunting "Hold Me," a wittily written love song performed compellingly by Mr. Fitch.

A merican Beauty is so wittily written and gorgeously directed that you might think you're seeing something archetypal--maybe even the Great American Movie.

In a later assessment, T. Edgar Pemberton called the piece "whimsically conceived and wittily written" and opined that it was "a gem of the first water, with its every facet cut and polished to the point of resplendency.

Like Mr. Elyot's "My Night With Reg," this is a rueful and wittily written comedy about the desperate, droll longings of the terminally unattractive in a world of sexual plenitude.

"Diana" may sound like a tract, but it's a romance, wittily written by Cicely Hamilton.

This book is elegantly and wittily written by Steve Schneider, a guest curator of the 1985 Museum of Modern Art retrospective on Warner animation.

The Guardian called it "a wittily written curio, and to hardcore comedy fans, it's a definitive reference work".

The film showed promising signs - it's myriad plots and sub-plots are held together by a wittily written narrative - sadly, that's not enough to create a blockbuster.

The column was wittily written, and Qwilleran accepted congratulations from copyboys and editors alike when he went to the office to open his mail.

The production is nicely designed and wittily written.