| Prosodical and rhetorical choices in both poems combine to create an unusual balance between gravity and elegance, on the one hand, wryness and wit on the other. |
| Warmth, wryness and a sense of bewilderment at the world are what bond these two and make them so eminently listenable. |
| Such wryness and wit are generously on hand in Hamilton's prints, as is a pervasive irony. |
| He brought the same quiet wryness to his conversation, and many of his remarks were all the funnier for his murmured, throwaway delivery. |
| When they were young, they'd adopted wryness as the defining tone at home, skirting anything too intimate or windy. |
| There was the smallest possible twist of wryness to the man's lips as he admitted to himself the necessity for the final words. |
