Wryest

That is to say, he's the quickest, sharpest, slyest and wryest comic actor on the screen. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

The first in a projected multivolume chronicle of the years from 1945 to 1979 called Tales of a New Jerusalem, this sparkling book — deeply and imaginatively researched, written with bounce, and informed by the wryest sensibility — charts the evolution of British society during the depleted and dingy years 1945 – 1951. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here he put the light on his desk, and said to the stranger, with his wryest twist upon him, ‘Your commands.’ ❋ Unknown (2007)

I gave him my wryest Flashy grin and clapped him on the shoulder. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)

"Yes, sir; almost killed," groaned the poor boy, making the wryest face ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

Here he put the light on his desk, and said to the stranger, with his wryest twist upon him, 'Your commands.' ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Winner of the prize for Best Screenplay at Cannes, New York born-and-trained Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar has here created the wryest of Jewish comedies, an emotional competition that pits father against son, built around the understanding of sacred texts. ❋ By DAVE ITZKOFF (2011)

Move forward to Wednesday night at the Emirates, in the same press suite, and the contrast was eye-opening, with Wenger's rosiness even extending to the wryest of acknowledgements. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cad with the reddest face, but the wryest smile, is the winner ❋ Unknown (2009)

His agent speaks one of the wryest lines in this meta-fictional story when she says, "Men are unlikely to read a book about childbirth. ❋ Valerie Sayers (2010)

Next day the doctor bade me walk with him on the Watchman, so that, as he said, he might without interruption speak a word with me: which I was loath to do; for he had pulled a long face of late, and had sighed and stared more than was good for our spirits, nor smiled at all, save in a way of the wryest, and was now so grave -- nay, sunk deep in blear-eyed melancholy -- that 'twas plain no happiness lay in prospect. ❋ Norman Duncan (1893)

Jay Mohr’s there as well as Joel Silver and creator Chris Thompson who has got to be the wryest man in Hollywood. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This means that he is once again, after his enforced absence, just about the quickest, sharpest, slyest, wryest and wittiest comic actor on the screen. " ❋ Unknown (2008)