Mr. Murphy's Gogo, more easygoing and more craven, greets his insistence with wary amusement and wry good cheer.
In contrast to his usual air of wry good cheer, Justice Breyer appeared weary and somewhat forlorn as the argument progressed.
Yet watching the film for a second time with a packed audience who swooned at its romance, laughed at its wry humour and cheered its moments of triumph, it struck me that, for all its progressive importance, this is first and foremost an impressively crowd-pleasing piece of intelligent screen entertainment.
We will always recall his wry wit, warm friendship, and good cheer, even in the face of ill health.
A typically fragmented affair, facts rise and fall like turnip tops on the tide, though the professor's penchant for wry visual motifs offers both continuity and something approaching cheer.
In the two marquee groups, the straightest hitters are Donald, the world number one, who is my (not very confident) pick as the winner, and Westwood, a wry product of Nottinghamshire whom I will also be cheering on.
On Wednesday evening, Ms. Gleason, 63, made her cabaret debut at 54 Below to a cheering sold-out house and told her personal story in a tone of wry self-deprecation.
She said most of the set is "very, very deep," but she noted that her comedic chops, honed by both her Broadway stints as well as an Emmy-winning turn on "Cheers," will also be on display: "There's a lot of great joy and humor, both wry and a little less wry".
