Sentence examples for wry chuckles from inspiring English sources

The wry chuckles are less winning.

In the late 19th century, the two emotions that readers seem to have been willing to pay to indulge were wry chuckles and informed moral outrage -- condescension in its comic and tragic varieties.

"Predestination doesn't seem all that strange to me," he noted with a wry chuckle.

People who have survived as parents give a wry chuckle at the newborn anxieties of the prototype parent.

"Last season, a lot of brands paid me a lot of money just to put moisturizer on the cheeks," he said with a wry chuckle.

Despite the odd wry chuckle at the respective PR departments' wit, it all added up to an unedifying spectacle for both teams.

It wasn't exactly a career track, she noted with a wry chuckle, and she struggled at the business for three years before striking out on her own.

When told of this comment later that night, Jones responded with a pundit's wry chuckle: "I'm not running for office.

Scenes of Blake struggling with a computer cursor ("fucking apt name for it!") raise a wry chuckle, but there's real outrage at the way this obligatory online form-filling has effectively written people like him out of existence.

The division of the realm is clearly a staged event in which McKellen reads a prepared speech, announcing that he will "unburdened crawl towards death" with a wry chuckle: obviously, he intends the exact opposite.

Keshi, who played in the losing side in the finals of 1984 and 1988 and then captained Nigeria to the trophy in 1994, their last success, had proved himself an exceptional leader, navigating the difficult political waters of Nigerian football with bullish charm, a wry chuckle and extremely thick skin.