Sentence examples for wry picture from inspiring English sources
Dr Stephen Dunn, director of policy and strategy for NHS Midlands and East, summed up the discussion well: "It's about time we moved on from talking about improving the patient experience to doing something about it!" He declared, painting a wry picture of what happens at a high level.
The filmmaker's background as an art student shows up in other ways as well: in the film's wry picture of college life, in its illuminating production design (by Missy Stewart) and in quietly elegant cinematography (by Jean Yves Escoffier, worlds away from his previous "Gummo").
Midnight in Paris is a cinematic soufflé that rises to perfection, a wry, funny, touching picture, pursuing some of his favourite tropes and themes but with sufficient asperity to give a sting to the nostalgia it embraces.
Best known for a bouquet of wry and charming picture books in which mice stand in for young children as they cope with new siblings, invent imaginary friends and deal with separation anxiety over a blanket or a favorite toy, Henkes is also a master of the middle-grade novel.
David Duchovny, who narrates this wry, good-natured picture with affable bemusement, informs us that Caltech lays claim to both the highest ratio of Nobel Prize winners to faculty and a men's basketball team that at the time of filming was distinguished by a record 243 consecutive conference losses dating to 1985.
Thereafter, the mystery correspondent settled into a routine — on the back of each card a wry comment on the picture overleaf.
What he really wants is to work with horses: "In his mind as he sleeps," Cartwright writes in a typically wry bit of characterization, "he is still drawing pictures of ponies in the margins of his exercise books".
"A young Navy pilot who volunteered for duty in Vietnam," boomed the bass Voice of God -- actually, the voice of Terry MacDonald, a burly actor with a wry wit -- as pictures of a youthful McCain flashed by on a large screen.
The picture has a wry edge, but also a touch of pathos.
Their next picture was a wry contribution to postwar nostalgia for more heroic times, "Appointment With Venus".
It's a modest picture, graceful and wry and quickened from time to time by nicely choreographed set pieces of physical comedy.
