Sentence examples for wry play from inspiring English sources

It's a wry play on the fact that a real camera obscura creates an inverted virtual image of reality (Johnson).

Mr. Zahedi is now locked in a battle with the Sharjah Art Foundation over whether the film, "Plot for a Biennial" (a wry play on the festival's theme), will ever be screened anywhere.

You can picture him providing a calm, wry, play-by-play explanation of exactly what all these running blocks and line-behinders are talking about on Ballers, like an in-vision sign language interpreter.

It is a fine contrast between material luxury and wry semiotic play (Johnson).

A superbly wry Bill Murray plays an American movie star in Tokyo to promote a Japanese whisky.

Otherwise, the duo bring to mind the pop pairings of eighties Top Of The Pops, the wry Sa'id playing the role of Soft Cell's Dave Ball.

In wry tones, playing with cultural and scientific contexts, he lays out the provenance of the festive tree and its first appearances.

Angling for every advantage, Mary Jo, as Hallie Foote plays her, is a wry star turn, at once ugly and hilarious.

Three women and one man play wry, galloping pop that can switch to punk overdrive.

The tone means to be wise and wry, but the play never achieves the seriousness to which it aspires.

In a 10-act acoustic showcase at S.O.B.'s on Thursday night, Los Deliqüentes, from Spain, played wry flamenco-pop that included passages for kazoo.