Sentence examples for wry from inspiring English sources

Christopher Reid's work, by contrast, I love for its wry and always well-mannered outsider's take on contemporary mores.

There's also endless innuendo – "Yeezus just rose again" – and the odd wry confession: "I slightly scratched your Corolla [pause], OK I smashed your Corolla".

He could make wry jokes and become expansive after hours in the bar, but he wrote with dedicated seriousness, weighing and polishing every phrase.

Many parents would look at this fact with a wry sideways glance and an eyebrow raised, but I have held onto it for dear life.

He proceeds to give an opening speech that is funny, wry and moving.

This prompted a wry comment from the blogger known as The Angry Arab: "I would like the US ambassador in Saudi Arabia to call for elections 'as soon as possible'".

In fact, sketches which initially seem out to skewer patriarchal society – like one where a man is deemed humourless after complaining about having to visit a gender-reversed Hooters-style restaurant called O'Nutters – end with a wry reinforcement of its ideals (the male customer is dragged into a "wet nut contest", enjoys himself immensely, is cured of misanthropy, etc).

As one critic of my book, Underneath the Lemon Tree, wrote, with a wry observation that I still find amusing: "Far from being the illness that dare not speak its name, it is actually quite hard to get it to shut up".

Yet he is warm, easy company, with a quick smile, a wry wit and an ability to speak, with slightly accented English, in perfect syntax.

Buried away in Peter Mandelson's memoirs is a wry note of satisfaction that he felt about returning from Brussels to his old Whitehall industry department in 2008, a decade after he had been forced to resign from it.

But this suspicion will only be a casual one, something that causes wry amusement and little else.