They winced under their wry faces, afraid to stand and afraid to run away.
His accounts often contain asides, likely to bring a wry smile.
His tongue-in-cheek comparison of the religious life with the life of a fox-hunting man has a certain wry panache.
The various public service pathologies described here will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has worked with a large bureaucracy.
Throughout, she writes engagingly, and with a sensitivity and a wry humour which leavens her frequently lurid material.
He could be wry and sardonic about the claims of religious faith - but just as wary of metaphysical or ideological faith.
A suffix such as -anto, which combines a serious historical theme with grace-notes of (often wry) humour, may be appropriate.
It is characterized by a lot of wry humour, some of which had me spontaneously laughing aloud.