Примеры wry

• 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.

• I gave him a wry smile, happy f or him yet casting a somewhat jaded eye on his assessment.

• His 'revised performances,' created from existing works, often make wry commentaries on the content of the source material.

• From this wry gesture emerged a tense, enigmatic ostinato figure, dry and mordant.

• It can even be turned to wry advantage in quips that turn the homely wisecrack into a sagacious crevice.

• His book is perceptive, human, and salted with wry humor.

• Sometimes, in difficulty, he took my arm to help himself along, but the twinkle in the eye and the wry smile were always there.

• By all means let us refrain from hostility or hostilities, and wreathe our wry smiles as we may.