Sentence examples for wry way from inspiring English sources

'Yeah,' she says, in her wry way.

Umunna is another pretty boy, and has an appealingly wry way about him in an interview.

The clue "what a drawer may hold" was a wry way of describing a tool used by an illustrator.

But at their best they have a fine wry way of expressing our common ache.

The result is almost always to give us, in her own wry way, an indelible sense of place.

In his wry way, Mr. Nader seemed almost gleeful about the sudden burst of media attention his campaign had received.

"We smile in a wry, condescending way".

"I shall be rubbing shoulders with Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin - they might not be all that pleased, but I am," was his typically wry, modest way of framing the gesture.

Perhaps it is her contact with a living subject, perhaps it is Salter's wry, Delphic way with words, or the fact that he came close to death as a fighter pilot in Korea, but something is unlocked by their encounter and Roiphe at last identifies what her quest has been about – not death but the fear of death: "The knowing you are about to die.

He'd found the classic Brit in the USA balance though: obsequious but also slightly detached in a wry, superior way.

It begins with Sari (Ms. Shavers), a pregnant ex-stripper who is having a wry two-way conversation with her gestating child.