wryness

So the publishers put, let's say, a little bit of extra effort into VELLUM (to understate it with a certain wryness).

Hype Hype Hoorah!

So the publishers put, let's say, a little bit of extra effort into VELLUM (to understate it with a certain wryness).

Archive 2006-06-01

There's a kind of wryness — I'm sure Chekhov didn't expect you to have an evening of loud laughter.

A Modern Chekhov

Her heritage is about imagination and storytelling with large doses of passion and wryness which is reflected in her work.

Examiner California Headlines

Her heritage is about imagination and storytelling with large doses of passion and wryness which is reflected in her work.

Examiner California Headlines

"We don't surf here much," says Ed, with a wryness that masks a deep reverence for the culture and traditions of his adopted home.

Surfing: a lucky break in Kerala

Tod Randolph, who is a woman, has been cast as the melancholy Jaques and plays him or is it her? with lemony wryness.

Love, Fresh and New

That Monaghan's efforts here engage the same strategies as those used to create Coke's animated polar bears only enhances the wryness of his riff.

James Rieck and Jonathan Monaghan at Hamiltonian Gallery

There was a degree of wryness in the slanting line of his mouth.

Western Man

Her short and polished sentences are underscored by a ruthless clarity of vision and an underhanded wryness that hurts—and was most likely meant to hurt.

A Supremely Disabused Writer