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Sentence Examples Born in August 31, 1928, he was the 14th of 16 children and always showed a wry sense of humour often referring to his home as the house of sin. He had his arms akimbo and was directing at them a wry gaze of mixed amusement and disgust. Where some saw self-aggrandizement, others saw the sartorial manifestation of a wry sense of humor. It's full of wry, witty observations, with poignant bits thrown in sparingly. He was a conservationist, a wry observer of human behaviour, a voracious reader, a great storyteller, a fearless reviewer. Though he says his writing was inspired by, of all people, Mickey Spillane, I suspect that's a bit of wry humor. As an advocate for the cause, she is all the more effective for taking a line in wry understatement unusual in this context. New York playwright Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humour and pain of life. A wry grin overspread her lips as she found herself walking towards a small hut. Basically a wry comedy, it has serious overtones and philosophical implications. This film brings the actor back to his patented wry, literate, pathologically charming British persona. It is both a wry and perceptive critique of the colonial system and a sharply observed account of childhood. Or was this a wry post-modernist conceptual take on our received notions of the picture postcard? A wry smile at that one, you suspect, from Sir Alex of that ilk, currently brooding on the other side of the same city. The latter resonates with equal amounts of wry self-reflexivity and acknowledgement of issues concerning representation and cults of personality. He is intrigued by her wry tone, uncertain of her sincerity, their funny bones still not comfortably connected. Katya wants to be all business, a blank-faced pro, but she can't help but respond to Barley's wry gallantries. There are moments of impenetrable psychotic darkness, followed swiftly by wry humor. She added a wry smile as three slightly confused expressions dissolved quickly into delighted laughter. Through it all, Dodd remained an avid lover of music and an astute businessman, with a wry and disarming sense of humour. Show More Sentences Bleak as the film is, there is occasional respite in the script, drawing wry smiles rather than hearty guffaws. With a wry but startling curse, he stops strumming his guitar and looks to the audience for help. Using wry wit where melodrama would have sufficed, she externalises her character's grave desperation with mettle. I had inferred his wry sense of humor from the reciprocal drollness of his handwritten exchanges with Robert Kennedy. Bubbling over with bright ideas, visual flourishes and deadpan drollery, this is a film of wry smiles and poignant moments. And though it slowly got darker and darker outside, the peppy discussion, interspersed with slices of wry humour, just kept going. Instead, the writers present new twists on parenting with liberal doses of wry humor that even singletons will enjoy. Director Peter Evans highlights the play's wry humour and latent evil with a low-key, ironic spin. Chekhov's wry humour and dead-on powers of observation are a perfect fit with the clown-inspired style of Toronto's Theatre Smith-Gilmour. In a brilliantly wry and acidly accurate mini short story he demonstrates the shocking swerving from honesty and truth by the government. She is, however, able to respond rationally and intelligently and has a wry sense of humour. Anger, bitterness and disappointment course through Schmidt, but the film is wry and melancholic rather than mean-spirited. As such, it would make a marvelous companion to Blackboard Jungle as a double feature for the cinema buff with a wry sense of humor. I've got a great, wry sense of humor and a few good friends of like-mindedness. Her face, skeletal from an apparent lack of food, curves thin lips into a wry grin. The sexual chemistry between Wilks and Gray is palpable as they bounce ripostes off each other with wry wit and superb timing. The author's wry sense of humour livens the narration and sometimes some passages seem to touch on topics not merely medical. Australian Dance Theatre's new work, Birdbrain, will inject a modern, wry twist into the ever-enduring dance text of Swan Lake. Despite his virtuosity, Sonny Rollins always managed to express an underlying, wry sense of humor in his playing. One of Calysta's eyebrows was up, and the wry twist on her lips was certainly comical. Show More Sentences The script is sharp, without an ounce of fat but with great moments of dialogue that retain a sly, wry wit. Despite the disappointments so far, there is a wry optimism among some UK firms. There was no disapproval in his expression, only a slight wry lifting of his lips. All this we could handle with a mere shrug of the shoulders and a wry grin if only the sun were out and the sky was blue. This may sound like a classic love triangle, but there is little time for romance with all those wry sideswipes at the Western genre. He plays the role with a wry detachment, his Dex a bon vivant who's messing with his ex-wife's wedding just to amuse himself. In a good way, the harmonium sounds like a French accordion managing to sound bitter, sweet and wry at the same time. He gives a wry smile and lets out a charmingly high-pitched giggle at this last thought. These fast-paced numbers are effortlessly infused with his charmingly wry sense of humor. Patience, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 1998, is a wry modern fable loosely inspired by the Book of Job. As Grant moved through his week of mea culpa, he gradually adopted a position of wry humility. His mouth had a wry twist to it as if he took everything with a heavy dose of sarcasm. Jac picked up a fork and poked at the greens, making a wry face and glancing with envy at her plate. He pulled a wry face as he swallowed, setting the cup down on the table again. Her most memorable roles are stamped with her trademark characteristics, by turns wry, matey and spikily defiant. Powerful drums in time like a metronome lead the way for trashy angular bass lines and wry energetic vocals. It nails down the wry, wisecracking tone of the business world in lively, almost reportorially vivid detail. His eyes showed an active intelligence and a wry smile played across his lips. The producers know how to subvert the romantic-comedy genre to suit their needs, taking wry digs at the anxieties and expectations of both sexes. Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm. Show More Sentences Tan's mild political satire maintains a wry humour that complements the general comic tone. She gave him a wry smile, brushing her hair away from her face into a quick bun. The pace is formidable, the wry tone even and well-sustained, and the narrative fluently written. The wry Irishman breaks into a gentle smirk, conveying the whiff of arch self-deprecation. No Direction Home has an interview with the sublimely cool and wry session man Al Kooper. Andy twisted her lips in a wry smile and tossed her dyed black hair over her shoulder. A wry smile touched Ame's lips as she ran her fingers over the faded image, eyes softening. The result is an unawed, sometimes wry and witty, always elegantly written study that provides new insights on Churchill. The satire of Circumstance is another of Hardy's wry puttings-down of Authority, with unfledged children as the instruments of execution. The benign, old Munshi sums up the topic with a short, wry remark, a telling commentary on the state of affairs. Her light touch, wry humour and down-to-earth, almost gossipy tone make this novel as readable as it is challenging. Throughout Mr Chappelle seemed to prefer the wry offhand remark to the on-point joke. Images of gauchos speculatively transformed into fishermen struck a wry note in an otherwise disturbing account of man's increasingly uneasy relationship with the planet. Christopher Reid's work, by contrast, I love for its wry and always well-mannered outsider's take on contemporary mores. It helps that there is a strain of wry, deadpan humour running throughout the film. Many parents would look at this fact with a wry sideways glance and an eyebrow raised, but I have held onto it for dear life. Alan shook his head, an expression of wry confusion on his face. The two men exchanged questioning glances behind her back as she came out of the garden and closed the gate, then Penniworth gave a shrug and made a wry face of amusement. He quite literally charmed Parliamentarians with his quiet humility and wry humour. Indeed, the nomination yesterday of Minister McCreevy as our Irish Commissioner here brings a wry smile to my face. Show More Sentences On stage, the duo really shine, with heartfelt songs delivered with evident passion, while the between song banter shows a wry sense of humour, which also infuses their music. Van der Merwe was as pleased as Punch following last Saturday's win, making the wry remark his team had scored more tries in one game than the entire season. He is chunky, fair-skinned, animated and given to wry humor. Burns' dialogue has a natural, unforced rhythm that contains a fair number of wry one-liners that compensate for occasional bouts of triteness and pretentiousness. Levy's wry sort of humour and the ironic use of an English woman's perspective to describe the problems confronted by the immigrants is both clever and sensitive. Deuce managed to keep a wry grimace from his face, just barely. The Greek god, Hippocrates, would be looking down on us right now with a very wry smile. It's wry humour that permeates the tale rather than bitterness. Some writers describe situations where paranoid fears of crime and violence are dissolved by friendly warmth and wry smiles of supposed tsotsis instead. The first officer, a retired British naval man, regarded Kara and her few belongings with wry amusement as one of the deck hands brought her up to the wheelhouse. His poetry is characterized by its openness to the vagaries of consciousness, its wry, beguiling lyricism, and its innovative use of forms such as the pantoum and the sestina. So I begged to let me do the script at least and everybody at Bandai made a wry face. She was perfectly composed, occasionally flashing a wry smile and speaking in thoughtful, well-turned phrases. Making sense of her life on the page, deploying raw emotion alongside humor and wry mischief, has long been a Bechdel pursuit. Problems with the throat chakra are related to wry, problems in cervical lymph nodes, sore throat, hoarseness, vocal cord problems, etc. Working on the Compliance Team, the well-spoken and wry chemical engineer's dizzying list of projects is impressive. His picture of writers as frustrated, unpraised, unrewarded wretches, pitied at parties and whispered about among families, drew laughter and wry nods. The joy of the film is its wry focus on the little things that make up the background of oppression, such as interruptions in conversation and comments ignored. The O contained a whimsical smiley face, a wry, self-deprecating wink at the pretensions of power. They're wry and surreal, but also extremely enthusiastic about what they're doing. Show More Sentences Born in Brooklyn, like so many wry Americans, Davis has written a sizeable collection of limericks and poems about the current state of the union. There was something about how his smile was genuine, not cool and calculative weighing her in the balance as other guys usually did, wry smiles casting their face downward. As she takes stock of such attitudes, Ms. Roiphe finds herself doing some wry, perceptive reassessment. Sardonic, wry, sharp, informed with the very latest news, he would rip into the UN spokesmen. The quick-cut trailer suggests a soft-core romp with dramatic intrigue and wry one-liners. The novel is peppered with knowing humour, which for the most part stems from Alix's wry observations and self-deprecating take on her manless state. Lessner's Black Hole Gang screen print is especially wry and fetching. He was in fine form, ducking and jabbing on a number of tough questions and even getting laughs on some of his wry responses. God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away. Bringing rib-tickling comic relief to both tales is a wry, cheese-loving goat who just wants everyone to stop working and to have a picnic. The book is instructive but also very personal, livened with the author's penetrating, wry, wistful humor. She turned pages in the album, gave a wry little smile to a shot of the four lads making duckfaces and faux-gangster hand signs. But more telling was the chemical combustion between McCann's soulful, feelgood keyboard work and Harris's wry funkification. And in their dance to that end they show a frenetic vitality and a wry sense of the ridiculous that balance heartache and laughter. I'd been expecting a fast-talking, Noo-Joisey wisecracker but he's more a slow-burn, wry anecdote kind of guy, occasionally making himself laugh – a deliberate ack-ack-ack sound somewhere in the back of his throat. Faced with the imminent end, Walser works imperturbably on, often even with a kind of wry amusement, and — apart from a few eccentricities which he permits himself for the fun of it — with an unerringly steady hand. She made a wry face when she told me that, back in Moldova. Acerbic, wry, palliating, disapproving and subtly, desperately loving, Ms. Seldes shows us a character who is both thrilled and saddened by her lot. He and Crowe make a strong, unexcitable team, each as wry as the other, and Hasan doesn't even look surprised when Connor saves his life, in mid-fight, with judicious whacks of a cricket bat. McQueen remembers Stanfield for his wry and self-deprecating humour, his debating skills in the House, and above all his convictions and principles. Show More Sentences There are wry references to art history within his selections: Max Ernst's sculpture within broken trees, Wyndham Lewis in a smashed windowpane, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore in two kebab machines. The latter role saw him become a presenter on Live Aid, a day of madness that is documented with wry comment and apparent bemusement. His wry humor and all-knowing tone let them know who is in charge. A wry spinster, a sonorous priest, a reformed party girl, and a cantankerous Cape Breton matriarch, are all witnesses to a twenty-year interrupted love story. In her songs, Nahawa is renowned for dishing out straight-talking 'advice' in Bambara, drawing on her own harsh experiences in life or making wry observations about what she sees happening in society around her. A catechism in common use during the Franco era was recently republished with wry footnotes. But there may also be a more secular explanation for the country's renewed interest in religion. His wry and eerie metaphysical extrapolations make lesser efforts seem toylike. He could make wry jokes and become expansive after hours in the bar, but he wrote with dedicated seriousness, weighing and polishing every phrase. He proceeds to give an opening speech that is funny, wry and moving. Up to a few years ago, when I asked this kind of question from an environmental point of view to members of the previous government I was told with a wry grin that there are jobs and then there is the environment. For those of you who did not know Ruth, she was a warm, bright, generous woman who shared freely her knowledge, her passion for social justice, and her wry sense of humour. In a wry pastiche of traditional exegesis, Amichai takes on the rabbinic anxiety about nature as alien, goyish, a seduction. While the occasional wry witticism seeps through, overall Shipler is painfully conscientious about trying to offer both sides of any debate. Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work. Jack Flanders and his crew find themselves unexpectedly cast as main characters dressed to kill or be killed, in this wry tongue-in-cheek sleuthing adventure. Breslin has always had a wry sense of humor, a street-smart way of putting every one and every thing in its place, but that is almost totally lacking here. The Adventures of Bic Calamus is a wry black-and-white graphic novel about a would-be writer struggling with creative, financial, and mental health problems. Cumani is not a trainer forever seeking publicity, but when he is centre stage the strength of his opinions and his wry quotability mean that he makes his mark. Published in 1930, just eleven days after his death, his last work Nettles was a series of bitter, nettling but often wry attacks on the moral climate of England. Fran, ever the polymath, was also cherished for her wry wit. Examples from Classical Literature I kind of gloried in being a roughneck, I reckon, he added with a wry smile. And now, her wry sly smile, peeping from underneath her battered hat-brim, meets me at every back-street corner. His wry faces were from no indigestion, but from the savour of asafoetida, unrelieved by brandy. Once he raised his head for a moment, while his lips were fixed in a wry smile. Wilding looked at Trenchard, who shrugged his shoulders and made a wry face. The faun waved his pipes saucily at the Phoenix and gave a wry smile. We can decorate as we like, with a raised eyebrow at our homeliness and a wry smile at our take on domestic bliss. To the figure of the noble swordsman he brings a wry impishness, a stunning self-assurance that nettles his foes and magnifies their inferiority. Peter made a wry face and started for the sweet clover patch. The playwright gave Mainhall a curious look out of his deep-set faded eyes and made a wry face. Passepartout, who had now rejoined his master, made a wry grimace, as he thought of his magnificent, but too frail Indian shoes. Once or twice it made wry faces at swallowing a mouthful of water, and choked a spluttered as if on the point of strangling. Torticollis, myalgia cervicalis, stiff neck or wry neck, caput obstipum. It all looks impressive, the 3D works well and there are also a stack of wry and quotable one-liners. Well, Sis, there is no use making a wry face about it, the collegian said. But this is certainly not a whiney, why me book, but an often amusing, wry alphabet. Martin made a wry little grimace of amusement as he realized suddenly that even at the very gate of death it was still on life, his life, that his thoughts dwelt. Miss Crocker tasted first, made a wry face, and drank some water hastily. She broke into wild exclamations of grief, and he drew her head down and kissed her with a tender action which she could not resist, and a wry face which she did not see. Women will do almost anything to stave off wrinkles but I gave a wry smile when I read that a collagen drink was a bestseller at a chain of high-street chemists. Find more words! 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