Dryly

"Dunnot hurt thysen explainin '," dryly; "I nivver set up fur one. ❋ Unknown (1877)

When I persisted, he shrugged and agreed to let me continue seeing Doug, whom he thereafter referred to dryly as my “healing project.” ❋ M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona (1997)

I seem to recall it being told kind of dryly, but the subject matter is really powerful and very relevant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An actor ( "Midnight Run" and those dog movies) and natural-born raconteur, he takes over Snyder's CNBC slot with the kind of dryly comic anecdotes he's filled three books with. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So many people were saying things "dryly" that I thought I was sitting in the Sahara. ❋ Bill Crider (2004)

"La Mancha, " Vuillard said dryly, meaning the English Channel. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)

We're not as well off as we have been, "dryly;" but I'm not a beast to see a man starvin 'under my roof. ❋ Various (N/A)

"He isn't just the pardner," dryly, "that I'd select for a long camping trip." ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)

"I've heerd foak ca 'him one," dryly; "an 'if his cloas fit him reet, he mun be one, I suppose." ❋ Unknown (1877)

So I watched it, and I was impressed with the moves, but the team was pretty far behind at that point, and I know one of the announcers kind of dryly said, "His team is eleven runs behind." ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Just so," dryly; "they look mild and saintly here, but I think those eyes are capable of another expression. ❋ Lawrence L. Lynch (N/A)

Though, "dryly," I'm rather glad it is so, for it will be easy for me to be noble in that fashion. " ❋ R. G. [Illustrator] Vosburgh (1895)

As Mr. Peeters dryly observes: "Femininity does indeed struggle to find a place in the series." ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

"I think I'll keep making riesling," Breeden replied dryly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cooking shows don't have to be dryly instructional, he said. ❋ Katy McLaughlin (2011)

But she is also sly, selfish, nasty, hurt and hurtful, dryly sardonic and fatefully deluded. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

But as Lieutenant General David Barno, the commanding general in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2005, later dryly noted of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan, “‘Nation-building’ was explicitly not part of the formula.” ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

In a paper commissioned by the European Parliament in 2010, former Commerzbank Chairman Achim Kassow notes dryly that "The regulatory incentive which results from the 0% risk weight is apparent: banks in Member States are effectively encouraged to place their most liquid assets into the worst possible government debt, maximizing the yield with a regulatory capital requirement of zero." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Among the 32 final rules the banking, futures and securities agencies have issued so far and GAO reviewed, the report dryly notes that "regulators may be missing an opportunity to enhance the rigor and improve the transparency of their analyses." ❋ Unknown (2011)