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wry sentence examples

  • Wry smile at the gray buyers ' expense.
  • Both, as we have come to expect from luke, involved some excellent guitar work with gentle and sometimes wry lyrics.
  • Wry grin: powerful with perfect attitude.
  • There are also some extraordinarily tense, suggestive set-pieces, especially in the bleak final half-hour, and much wry comedy.
  • Wry amusement.
  • His observations on the clientele of gyms are particularly wry.
  • Wry black humor.
  • His uniqueness as a performer stems from his ability to captivate an audience through a stunning delivery of his perceptive and often wry lyrics.
  • Wry humor, their sense of history and tradition.
  • For an entertaining evening with some very wry touches this show really is hard to beat.
  • Wry wit of the man of the world rather than the university wit more common nowadays.
  • There wasn't really any plot to this episode, more a sequence of alternately wry and emotionally-charged conversations.

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