In a way that expresses dry, especially mocking, humour.
he reflects wryly on his life and work
her wryly observed sketches and caricatures
I smiled wryly at the words
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The snapshots show the artist's wryly observant take on his world.
She ruminates wryly about her future.
Greene's prefaces are usually succinct, genuinely concerned with aspects of the writing process, and sometimes wryly humorous.
In six delicately trenchant, wryly humorous images, she distills the memories of her two teenage years in a Catholic nunnery.
He evokes the lyric and neo-Romantic impulses his great predecessors found in the music, at the same time commenting on those responses wryly yet lovingly.
In a way that expresses dry, especially mocking, humor.
he reflects wryly on his life and work
her wryly observed sketches and caricatures
I smiled wryly at the words
Example sentencesExamples
In six delicately trenchant, wryly humorous images, she distills the memories of her two teenage years in a Catholic nunnery.
He evokes the lyric and neo-Romantic impulses his great predecessors found in the music, at the same time commenting on those responses wryly yet lovingly.
The snapshots show the artist's wryly observant take on his world.
Greene's prefaces are usually succinct, genuinely concerned with aspects of the writing process, and sometimes wryly humorous.