Sentence examples for wry portrait from inspiring English sources

Booth devotes some pages to Jante Law — a wry portrait of Denmark's self-effacing mores by the early-twentieth-century writer Aksel Sandemose.

That Adamson was probably the team's stronger artist can be gleaned from his wry portrait of Hill.

Chris Rock's new series, a memoir that he narrates, paints an affectionately wry portrait of a 13-year-old growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.

So far it's all very realistic: a closely observed, wry portrait of a wounded family, and in particular the love-hate of Violet and Mouse.

Booth devotes some pages to Jante Law a wry portrait of Denmark's self-effacing mores by the early-twentieth-century writer Aksel Sandemose.

Ms. Ackerman also provides a wry portrait of a transgendered Christian who recalls with a drawl her feeling of being exiled from both the church and the city itself, which she nevertheless insists on loving for its beauty.

Rueful hindsights abound — "If you look at history, you will see that I was not the first guy to do something really stupid over a girl" — and wry portraits too.

Wry, intimate, portrait of eccentric Japanese-American outsider artists.

Udall is overly given to virtuosic description, but he uses the backdrop of Cold War atomic testing to fine effect, capturing the paranoia and nihilism engendered by the prospect of vast destruction, and has produced a wry, sympathetic portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional family.

Her sexy, roiling presence onstage is one side of her, her wry social portraits on "Portlandia" represent another side, and neither has much in common with her modest, cerebral, nonperforming self.

Presumably taking heed of the wry self-portrait in the lyrics of Every Breaking Wave – "I thought I had the captain's voice," he sings, "but it's hard to listen while you preach" – Bono spends most of Songs of Innocence avoiding grandstanding in favour of personal recollection.