Sentence examples for dry delivery from inspiring English sources
Nick Clegg attempted humour, but without Chiles's dry delivery.
The singer Paul Sprangers has a dry delivery reminiscent of Pavement's Stephen Malkmus.
The tone of voice befits a dry delivery, but there are hints of Henny Youngman.
At seven, he stays tuned for the "CBS Morning News" with Hughes Rudd, whose dry delivery and wry observations on the news Ellison admires.
McKenna, who is 44, has a dry delivery, but when she is telling a story she finds particularly funny, her voice goes up an octave.
'It's true,' Summer says, and only her dry, wry delivery, her low-pitched, sardonic voice stops her from sounding desperately earnest.
Only from their own life, mind — "I can't kill Hitler, or shag Helen of Troy," sighs Nighy, with that wispy, bone-dry delivery that allows him to speak without moving his mouth.
You see it at work here in Kate's restless eyes, taking constant inventory of a house that she feels might collapse if she ever relaxed her vigilance, and in her bone-dry delivery of sentimental lines.
Pro partner Karina Smirnoff seemed to be tickled by his bone-dry delivery, though, and she got her star partner to engage in a lot of Karina-catching during their Keane-themed contemporary routine.
As the title suggests, Homeland sees Laurie Anderson returning to the familiar territory of her opus magnum United States I-IV, with a series of ruminations and observations upon her native land, in which unashamed intellectualism – references to Kierkegaard, Thomas Paine, etc – is balanced by her dry wit and ironic delivery.
