At her best she's a world-class stylist, her prose as richly moist as her sensibility is dry".
Stahl's dry sensibility slices right through that, imposing visual patterns and thematic symmetries on the material in a way that gives it shape and emotional resonance.
"It has a very particular style and dry sensibility that I think Europeans appreciate more than Americans".
Sensibilities are tinder dry, waiting to be exploited by any perceived insult by insignificant Westerners.
Mr. Wallowitch's more serious songs, like "This Moment" and "Taking Things for Granted," are terse, intimate reflections on the passing of time and show the flip side of his playful sensibility: a wise, dry-eyed nostalgia that can put a lump in your throat.
We see her as she was then, a mischievous, wry conceptual artist with a canny sensibility, cool but not dry, sometimes sweet, even corny -- and way ahead of her time in giving acute visual form to women's issues.
We see Yoko Ono as she was before she became a celebrity: a mischievous, wry conceptual artist with a canny sensibility, cool but not dry, sometimes sweet, even corny -- and way ahead of her time in giving acute visual form to women's issues.
But lurking beyond (or beneath) the homage was Mr. Anderson's own sensibility, marked by a dry, goofy wit (picture Mark Wahlberg and Mr. Reilly in "Boogie Nights" bragging about how much they can bench-press) and a bracingly unironic emotional directness.
Indeed, since starting out on the NY comedy-club scene, the Brooklyn native's dry, off-kilter sensibility has been found in his writing as well as his (more infrequent) acting.
Related in sensibility is "My Garden Has Dried Up" by Belkis Ramirez from the Dominican Republic, a work that makes extensive use of barbed wire.
McKay's sensibility, however, is decidedly ironic.
