He was wry, precise, quick to smile, candid and easy in his demeanour.
Richardson was slow to criticize Nixon, and he was wry about his fame, saying that sometimes he felt like a walking anticlimax.
He was wry, gentle and wise – one of William James's "once-born", notwithstanding a life that had had its fair share of emotional turmoil.
He's wry and silly, his language full of provocative puns, eloquent blarney and tips of the hat to the absurdity of modern culture.
Harry, despite a propensity for making bad puns, is good company when he's wry and wary, reminiscing on the phone with his beloved sister, Bee, a sculptor labouring away at an under-appreciated artist-in-residency programme in Canterbury.
A woman friend said he was "wry and ironic" towards people.But his enterprises, and his personality, generated valuable publicity, and Mr Blass sold licences to attach his name to a wide range of products: scent, luggage, chocolate, furnishings, nearly 100 items in all.
In many ways, Professor Vorenberg was the model of the well-credentialed and sober New England lawyer (although he was wry enough to publish a cookbook with a friend who was also a university dean, Jack Greenberg, and call it "Dean Cuisine: The Liberated Man's Guide to Fine Cooking," Sheepmeadow Press, 1990).
Like Payne, she is wry and precise in her speech.
