She had quickly gleaned that Zimmerman's pompous attitude and scathing wit merely covered the insecurities of a brilliant, lonely man.

Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.

He is an inspiring, sometimes brutal taskmaster with a delightful, often scathing wit.

Here is a list of celebrities Gervais will likely skewer with his scathing wit:

My wife is a fine woman, though given to an overly sharp tongue and scathing wit.

This Blackadder has a scathing wit, which he uses with greater success than his ancestor.

Assault having failed, he was forced to try scathing wit, which he did not have.

His piercing eyes and scathing wit during Security Council debates in 1950 and 1951 brought him hundreds of fan letters each week.

Richard is a loner but has confidence and scathing wit.

Though he'd deny it even under torture, Tuvok had a scathing, dry wit and was not above dropping a zinger to break the crew's tension.