I've not always fit comfortably into conventional political boxes, maybe you've noticed that,'' he said wrily. ❋ Devlin Barrett (2011)
For me it needs a blend of elements, no one element dominating - a bit of action well, a lot really, believable and intelligent dialogue, wrily humorous moments, a romantic sub-plot which affects the main plot direction, actors who can act and who believe in what they're doing, great production values and with lines and scenes which remain with you ever afterwards, e.g. play it again, Sam. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Apparently there was an error in Wikipedia," he wrily observed to laughter. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But, she thought wrily, anywhere they landed would have less terror than the Phyrexian beast that followed them. ❋ Grubb, Jeff (1998)
It will be a comfort to participants at the fourth conference of non-governmental organisations (NGO's) on landmines, though they will no doubt reflect wrily that most of the 20 million mines scattered around southern Africa were produced in South Africa. ❋ Unknown (1997)
She lit a rare cigarette and smiled wrily when I moved to windward. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1991)
In 1929, Cobban wrote a book on Burke and the political ideas of the Lake poets which annoyed the Left; in 1960, when he reissued it, he noted wrily that in the meantime Burke had become a 'victim to the uncritical adulation of the right in America.' ❋ Gay, Peter (1966)
"We may have to do better than that," admitted Joe wrily. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
And now he wrily recognized that this was part payment for the efficiency and speed with which the Navy had trailed them on their landing, and for the use of a transport plane to take them back to the United States. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
He remembered his father's injunction to take it easy at first, and grimaced wrily. ❋ Unknown (1925)
For the purely reclamatory aspect of what he has done, his reward (so far as that can consist in anything save the doing) must come from insignificantly few directions; so few indeed that he, with a wrily humorous exaggeration, affects to believe them singular. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Asad smiled wrily in his white beard, guessing that the boy had been sent by his ever-watchful mother to learn who came and what the tidings that they bore. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Doubtless his murder would be avenged in due course; but -- He grimaced wrily to himself in the darkness, and tried once more to ease his cramped limbs. ❋ Unknown (1910)
"The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I hoped for," she noted wrily in an essay of 1980. ❋ Hermione Lee (2010)
Dana Milbank, the Washington Post political sketch-writer, noted wrily. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Hipster-mongering Details editor Daniel Peres doesn't read Gawker unless told to, Columbia J-school student James Sims, who we suspect is himself a hipster, wrily noted. ❋ Unknown (2009)
