Xu's pseudo-calligraphic scripts wryly extend such historical precedences, building towards the future while acknowledging the past.
Although welcoming the postmodern critique in anthropology that emphasizes the transnational, he wryly observes that this has tended to produce more jargon than insight.
They also looked on with knowing smiles as if wryly aware of the both the foibles of the upper classes and the limitations of their own social striving.
And there are many wryly humorous comments.
I am always amused, sometimes wryly amused, by the fact that floating was presented as a very new idea which would solve everything.
I may add, wryly, that my suspicion is that if things were bad we would have heard about it.
I observe, perhaps rather wryly, that some of the difficulties are illustrated by the uncertainties that have attended parliamentary business over the past 10 days.
Such agents smile wryly when they find a new technicality, however much injustice it will cause.
