The phrase "dry statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement that is factual, straightforward, and lacking in emotion or embellishment.
Example: "The report concluded with a dry statement of the financial results, leaving little room for interpretation."
Alternatives: "bland remark" or "matter-of-fact statement."
Joan says, hearing the actual radio exchange has so much more impact than what she calls (politely, of course) the "FAA's few dry statements".
For the most part, the Egyptian media have responded to the President's call to avoid speculation – with many outlets largely avoiding mentioning the incident, or deferring to dry official statements.
When I talked to Backplane's CEO Matt Michelsen, he gave me the usual dry mission statements about "creating a solution to help people organize around communities, affinities, movement".
"The foreign ministry reiterates, once again, the need for the withdrawal of the "wet-foot, dry foot" policy," the statement said.
By the final evening, spray painted mau5 head shirts had dried, credit card statements had skyrocketed, and the lineups outside started at 6 PM.
Barely was the ink dry on Flintoff's official statement than news came from the United States that tenders are being sought for the establishment of an American Premier League.
He even made a political statement with his dry wine art, by creating a portrait of Russian government official Gennady Onishchenko, who was associated with imposing an embargo on Moldovan wines in 2013, due to its links with the EU.
Therefore, the statement that " The dry nest thermoregulatory strategy is more common than the wet nest strategy in F. polyctena" may be true due to anthropogenic pressure, but would possibly not be so in natural habitats.
As in: "When she tells me, 'You can't go out in that skirt!'" On her BBC show, there's a touch of the superhero about her as she dons her boots and her statement jewellery, blow dries her signature bob, applies her lipstick and strides – Portas never merely walks; she wouldn't even know how to stroll – into failing businesses and tries to sort them out.
These dry, 15-to-20-second statements are as fun to listen to as the dentist's drill, and make the air only under the strictest of rules: There can be no mention of products, and no appeal to buy anything.
