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! Hal Duncan 2006

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 Hal Duncan 2006

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

A Modern Chekhov 2009

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

Examiner California Headlines 2010

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

Examiner California Headlines 2010

"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 2011

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 Terry Teachout 2011

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 Jessica Dawson 2010

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

Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

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 André Aciman 2011