Sentence examples for wry kind from inspiring English sources

Just a wry kind of "porky", like: "Look, you guys, we both know I have to say it.

Then, throughout, Virginia Woolf used the shortfalls and eccentricities of her characters to create a spirited, wry kind of humour that made the novel so enjoyable to read.

Stuff happens, as it does everywhere to everybody, but with a wry kind of patience and acceptance that is particular to this film.

Most confront the world with dark humor and a wry kind of wit; they do not rail against the injustices around them.

"She's very interested in how humans insert themselves into the natural environment and so in a sense, being on a huge ship, which doesn't have a port, which is filled with cargo that can't go anywhere is kind of comedic in a wry kind of way," Phillips said.

I know neither of them personally, but the image that forms itself of Harmison is of a wry, philosophical, kind of person; dry, English, definitely north country.

I'd been expecting a fast-talking, Noo-Joisey wisecracker but he's more a slow-burn, wry anecdote kind of guy, occasionally making himself laugh – a deliberate ack-ack-ack sound somewhere in the back of his throat.

It may sound gloomy, but all this is delivered with a kind of wry twinkle.

By comparison, "Our Kind" is wry and compressed, full of quick, telling details.

There were several other occasions for this kind of wry and incredulous laughter during the same week.

Faced with the imminent end, Walser works imperturbably on, often even with a kind of wry amusement, and — apart from a few eccentricities which he permits himself for the fun of it — with an unerringly steady hand.