| He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable. |
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| And that the most dignified thing we ageing grandes dames can do is smile wryly, surrender and follow the sun. |
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| He would look on wryly at times when the others were carrying-on in the clubhouse about slights, real and imagined. |
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| He also wryly acknowledges that he risks sounding like a grumpy old man pining for an overly-romanticised past. |
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| Greene's prefaces are usually succinct, genuinely concerned with aspects of the writing process, and sometimes wryly humorous. |
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| She recognized it as an unspoken apology and smiled wryly as she continued. |
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| Moreover, the Machiavellian in me cannot help but wryly shake the head in perverse tribute to what the Cubic boys have pulled off. |
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| I smiled wryly at my insomniac habitude and looked out at the window again. |
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| But he wryly added that full control of a vehicle should always be maintained when making hand signals. |
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| She smiled wryly to herself, thinking that perhaps he, like the local songbirds and crows, had flown south to avoid the oncoming winter. |
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| It was wryly noted that the heavens had delivered the Scots from certain defeat. |
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| Excellent dialogue and wryly amusing situations were wrung hard and without subtlety by the two main actors. |
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| Surrounded by packing cases and making himself endless cups of tea, he reflects wryly on his life and work. |
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| Some observers have wryly commented that this may be because of their effectiveness. |
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| You need to watch the diet and, he says wryly, this is one publican that only rarely gets a chance to have a few pints. |
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| As White wryly remarks, the Irish have been talking about revenge since they lost in Bloemfontein and Cape Town and should not need to be motivated more than they already are. |
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| Which kicks off a wandering etymological and sartorial definition-fest on toques and beanies and the difference therein, wound around several more wryly delivered anecdotes. |
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| One interviewee wryly observed that government has no qualms about funding advocacy directed at other levels of government. |
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| Some of our feverish energy, we suspect wryly, is merely an escape from being quiet. |
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| As one B. C. privacy advocate wryly noted, no court registry office has ever seen an around-the-block queue to gain access to such information! |
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| In response to a question about Hostess going out of business, Christie wryly refused to answer. |
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| The snapshots show the artist's wryly observant take on his world. |
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| He evokes the lyric and neo-Romantic impulses his great predecessors found in the music, at the same time commenting on those responses wryly yet lovingly. |
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| He was friendly, a little nervous, getting over a cold, and wryly funny. |
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| Of his five days as a prisoner of war after a forced landing in the desert, Fraser-Harris remarked wryly that French hospitality was not as good as he had experienced in Paris three years before. |
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| Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger. |
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| The stories were sometimes sinister, sometimes wryly comedic and usually had a twist ending. |
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| Ruth adds wryly that she doubts he knew who she was. |
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| She regularly conducts workshops and lectures abroad and has had her wryly humorous illustrations included in the permanent collections of museums in Canada, the United States and Europe. |
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| An unshaved Cohen, sporting a fedora and bolo tie, wryly noted that he never won a Grammy for any of his recordings. |
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| One senior Labour figure wryly remarks that the country wants his party's policies, but the Tories' leader. In reality, more guttural instincts will probably determine this election's outcome, as usual. |
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| Not even a courtesy call, as Martinez has wryly noted. |
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