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Pile-ons: In a New Republic appreciation of his late friend J. Anthony Lukas, Alan Brinkley says Big Trouble is "a story told with such wit, energy, and grace that it becomes a riotous, sprawling historical entertainment."
There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.
They also praise the film's "flair," "wit," and willingness to make fun of itself (Leonard Klady, Daily Variety ). (Visit "Chucky's Toybox," an unofficial fan site that has film clips, pictures, news, and a message board all about Chucky.)
And after Jane died, Cassandra stressed her goodness more than her wit or her bitter eye for human failings.
Though his wit is not of Shavian sharpness, his plays are in another sense more sophisticated.