Wanly

He leaned up against a wall and smiled kind of wanly and said, "This thing is going to go on for a while, isn't it?" ❋ Unknown (2008)

One wanly said that as teachers of the Word, they had failed. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

In short, the Beddington report has analysed a failing system and then wanly concluded that what will work best is more of the same. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosine lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. ❋ Michael Deibert (2011)

Women sit wanly before little pyramids of tomatoes, onions, and oranges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A little girl holding a flag, which droops wanly on her shoulder. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2012)

“Everything else,” Friedman wanly admits, “is less satisfying” than launching Cosmos 2 as originally planned, and maybe that self-evident fact will somehow keep the full mission alive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As she camps out nightly on the living-room floor, Maggie wanly remarks "I have na been in a bed since I was in maternity with Marina." ❋ Michael Billington (2010)

That, in turn, wanly illuminates an array of tiny LEDs at the front edge of the dock pictured above for about five seconds--assuming you see them at all, which you won't if the LapDock is in your lap. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He asked me for news of New York City, a place he admired for its creative chaos -- and with his ever-present cigarette in hand smiled wanly and spoke in low tones of the Czech people's "moment," the one that he was helping to create. ❋ Todd Brewster (2011)

After reading this you can stroke your goatee and state gravely: Of course it all comes down to Polk County, which – if my memory serves me correctly smile wanly – accounts for upwards of 20% of the statewide caucus vote. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Were Carnegie alive to read this grievous book, he would clutch his chest … smile wanly for a few minutes he didn't like to make others feel bad, then keel over into his cornflakes," wrote Dwight Garner. ❋ Unknown (2011)