Sentence examples for wry mockery from inspiring English sources
The prose is a model of the American stoical, with a very special note of wry mockery buried within it.
Why the hat, I ask him: is it his tribute to US film noir, or to the dapper numbers worn by Alain Delon and his ilk in the classic French thrillers of the 50s and 60s? "No," says Audiard, whose manner is soft-spoken, considered, and often with a faint edge of wry mockery.
Hints of Lou Reed (the phrasing) and Neil Young (the guitar solos) pepper songs that Philadelphia-born Vile invests with his slacker drawl, endearing quiet charm and wry self-mockery.
"Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge," he wrote with wry self-mockery in "Michigan Madman," a memoir he published in 1999.
Selecting Dustin Hoffman to play Mr. Giamatti's father is a stroke of genius, since it throws into relief the blend of intense seriousness and wry self-mockery that they have in common as screen performers.
The tone of wry self-mockery was classic Cohen, and he confessed that his monastic immersion in Zen Buddhism had helped to dispel the depression which had hung over him in his earlier years.
She varies the mood from wry self-mockery ("I'm a frequent flyer... notorious liar") to PJ Harvey-ish stridency (sole rocker Hard As Stone), but most affectingly A Camp offers penetrating glimpses of the personal cost of international rock superstardom.
He's working here in a new, hypomanic prose style; the jokes come fast and furious, and the steady narration of the previous novel has given way to a wry, edgy self-mockery.
Speaking to the camera, she explains the events that led to this moment with the wry mix of self-mockery, resignation and defiance that we have come to recognize as the Modern Female Narrator.
At the Barbican, the 82-year-old pianist did occasionally linger on that once controversial penchant for honeyed romanticism – but he subverted it with as many wry asides, truculent chord barrages and affectionate mockeries as he has at any time in his long career.
