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Wryly amusing but serious, personable but penetrating, simply delivering Woolf's voice can provide an exceptional evening of theater as evidenced by Eileen Atkins' A Room Of One's Own and Vita and Virginia.
Michael Giltz: Theater: A "Room" Of Her Own Michael Giltz 2011
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Wryly funny and completely unaffected, Williams's strength is her directness.
Chamber ensemble IBIS refines Dar Williams's folk sound Stephen Brookes 2011
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Wryly amusing but serious, personable but penetrating, simply delivering Woolf's voice can provide an exceptional evening of theater as evidenced by Eileen Atkins' A Room Of One's Own and Vita and Virginia.
Michael Giltz: Theater: A "Room" Of Her Own Michael Giltz 2011
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Wryly, Davies quotes Donald Rumsfeld on weapons of mass destruction — absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence — and argues that the search should be broadened beyond radio (which we do not know aliens would even use) to look for other signs of intelligent life around us, even in our DNA or the biosphere.
The E.T. Generation 2010
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Wryly, Davies quotes Donald Rumsfeld on weapons of mass destruction — absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence — and argues that the search should be broadened beyond radio (which we do not know aliens would even use) to look for other signs of intelligent life around us, even in our DNA or the biosphere.
The E.T. Generation 2010
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Wryly, Charlie said, "All you'll know is what/think."
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Wryly turning away, he dressed quickly and then set about making up the fire so that the room would be warm for her.
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Wryly, I realised that this was a reflection of my own situation.
Words, words, glorious words! Satima Flavell 2009
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Wryly, I realised that this was a reflection of my own situation.
Archive 2009-12-01 Satima Flavell 2009
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Wryly: Either that, or your experience as a man makes you and every other male here incapable of seeing your own chauvenism.
Annette Lu to start newspaper Michael Turton 2009
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