Sentence examples for wry face from inspiring English sources

Guillem makes a wry face.

He made a wry face at me; we were complicit.

She made a wry face when she told me that, back in Moldova.

Her ambition is to buy a gambling casino and our trip was my punishment for refusing to help her raise money for it.' 'How were you meant to do that?' Ondine made a wry face.

More than one British civil servant in Sierra Leone, working on the international response which the UK leads, made a wry face to me and said that it would be equally hard for any of us at home to accept that sort of behavioural change.

Mr. Preston struts and makes wry faces with extravagant cheerfulness and charm, and Shirley Jones plays the man-shy librarian who comes to love him with a thoroughly winning choir-girl air.

A friend mysteriously commandeered me and presented me to a lanky older man with a wry expression on his face.

We look up at a middle-aged man in a suit, wide-shouldered, charismatic, a wry look on his face.

But, Cheadle's innate dignity as an actor and wry expression in the face of the pure Irishness around him, make his character immensely likable.

Emmanuelle captured the wry look on Roman's face.

The substance here is in the silences, when the focus shifts from words to Ms. Redgrave's wry, wounded face (1 40).