nimble-witted

It will shock you that many leaders on this continent are fond of employing mediocre people and take pleasure in rejecting smart people, because nimble-witted people get the job done without being asked to get it done.

My people have shunned nimble-witted and invaluable sons at the ballot and instead opted for inept paragons of perfidy who hide behind ODM and the party leader to climb to power.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra plays with the typical Smetana melodiousness, without a trace of Romantic burden in the lyrical passages, with style and very nimble-witted gags in the folksy sections (frolicsome grace notes of the flutes in the Polka!).