wrily

I've not always fit comfortably into conventional political boxes, maybe you've noticed that,'' he said wrily.

Draining Connecticut 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.

[nuts and bolts of films] best, worst 2008

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.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

"Apparently there was an error in Wikipedia," he wrily observed to laughter.

Live, from Wikimania 2006

"Apparently there was an error in Wikipedia," he wrily observed to laughter.

Live, from Wikimania 2006

But, she thought wrily, anywhere they landed would have less terror than the Phyrexian beast that followed them.

The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

But, she thought wrily, anywhere they landed would have less terror than the Phyrexian beast that followed them.

The Brothers' War 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.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

She lit a rare cigarette and smiled wrily when I moved to windward.

The Great California Game 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.'

Man in The Middle Gay, Peter 1966