Sentence examples for wry bit from inspiring English sources

The wry bit about old guys complaining about young guys growing beards, I said, almost felt to me like he was casting an amused eye on himself, on complaints he might have made in the past.

What he really wants is to work with horses: "In his mind as he sleeps," Cartwright writes in a typically wry bit of characterization, "he is still drawing pictures of ponies in the margins of his exercise books".

JON CARAMANICA Crystal Bowersox "All That for This" (Shanachie) Crystal Bowersox's first album after the circus glare of "American Idol," in 2010, was titled "Farmer's Daughter" — a wry bit of self-definition worthy of a political memoir.

His rangy band, the Hurtin' Albertans, sounds noticeably loose in the studio, especially in "Bible on the Dash," a wry bit of advice offered side by side with the Texas troubadour Hayes Carll.

Later on, in an episodic book with sections named for the stages of an epileptic seizure ("Onset," "The Rigid Stage," "The Convulsive Stage," "The Stage of Recovery"), Ms. Slater presents her most creative and wry bit of dissembling.

In a wry bit of understatement, Kluge has named the Estate's culinary center the "Farm Shop": In reality, it's an elegantly stocked Parisian-style food hall that has surprisingly materialized in the heart of Virginia hunt country.

The adaptation by Webber and director Jerry Sams includes cute wry bits of humor, as when the Lion tells the Wizard, "I'm a friend of Dorothy".

And yes, she added, just a little bit wry.

Biro is wry, and a bit defensive, too; the memory stings.

The text is scattered with such footnotes – sometimes wry, sometimes a bit Eeyorish, sometimes affectionate, sometimes a shade passive aggressive.

Half an hour of Christmas perfection: festive but wry, a teensy bit sentimental and very, very funny.