Sentence examples for wry cool from inspiring English sources

Joseph Anthony Foronda's Reciter not only holds the show together but views the unfolding history with wry, cool omniscience.

Moggach and Michell were measured, wry and cool enough to point out their own failures as well as their successes.

Within pages of opening "If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother" by Julia Sweeney (familiar to me, and many, as a former star of "Saturday Night Live" and the creator of the one-woman show and memoir "God Said Ha!"), I felt like I'd made a new friend — a funny, wry, so-cool-she-doesn't-care-about-being-cool fellow parent with a voice I loved.

Toying with linear time, this wry nocturne is cool, sexy, and mysterious.

It's the tender evasiveness of this famously harsh writer, despite her cool, wry tone, that makes these tales feel autobiographical.

An ensemble performance entirely of stars, with an elusive sun, Marcel Duchamp, at the center, it focuses on a transformative moment in American Modernism when a heroic view of art ended, and another view, cool, wry and brainy, began.

THE OTHER HALF The young Chinese director Ying Liang's second feature, made in 2006, starts out as a work of cool, wry modernism but soon veers toward a fierce and harrowing cry of political rage.

Far from feeling gimmicky, this reflects and enhances the autobiographical tensions of Pekar's own work, and introduces extra levels of cool, wry analysis into a world that might otherwise be oppressively bleak.