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"drily" Definitions
  1. if somebody speaks drily, they are being humorous, but not in an obvious way
  2. in a way that shows no emotion
  3. in a way that shows that there is no liquid present

77 Sentences With "drily"

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"2017 was not the 'toddlerquake' election," the authors noted drily.
"He shoots better than he talks," one French delegate remarked drily.
"Brexit was not our preferred option," offers Mr de Boer, drily.
"Orientation tough," drily notes a critique written on several amorphous oblong shapes.
"I was that 'guy who cams in the garage,'" he remembers drily.
The sentences, read drily by local celebrity pronouncer Jacques Bailly, can be funny.
"It definitely starts to wear on you the 100th time," Michaels says, drily.
"My non-existent Roman grandmother would roll over in her grave," Brioza says, drily.
"It does not lend itself to micromanagement-free management," he told me, somewhat drily.
I read the descendants' Wikipedia pages like they were drily written, but still compelling, novels.
That's not true," Booker said, laughing, while Harris drily chimed in, "The other one's here.
"It is expected that a large part of the payments were suspicious," the report drily concludes.
"German support cannot replace French policy making," she said drily after her enthusiastic welcome to Macron.
Blankets, linen, clothes, waiting drily in the dark for the deluge, the patience of the damned.
The first half of The Lobster makes a drily amusing if slightly rote procession through its governing conceits.
" He repeatedly complained about Trump's propensity to make false claims, drily noting, "I believe in fact-based campaigns.
When asked why her earrings weren't removed she says, "They had enough trouble with the necklace," she drily observes.
He is a defiant apologist for the drily theoretical work that Boulez and his acolytes produced in the 1960s.
"I read one paper that said because I was abused, I'm gonna die ten years earlier," she chuckles drily.
The end of the book is called "Historical Notes," in which scholars comment drily on the society Offred had endured.
"In my show I talk about having autism and I do do some anti-vaxxer material, which is... dangerous," she said drily.
There's the even second tenor, which he uses to convey information, or to drily recapitulate somebody else's point before chopping it down.
" Biden walked toward the man as he responded and then drily challenged him to a pushup contest to show he was "not sedentary.
The self-aware gags keep them from coming across as drily earnest no matter what subject matter is being discussed on Nick's heavily reverbed vocals.
"It seems like the local police saw it as a liability," he remarked drily, before revealing that the police unceremoniously confiscated it without further explanation.
It consisted of an executive with the sorry task of following Alicia Keys reading the items off drily as droves of people funneled out early.
"These findings raise questions about the wisdom of diverting law enforcement resources to attend to a problem that does not appear to exist," the researchers drily noted.
He talked in a bumbling way for another ten minutes or so in the lobby; then he drily kissed her cheek, said goodnight, and went to bed.
As Maxime Picat, PSA's director of operation in Europe, drily observes, seeking profits first and volumes afterwards has "not always been the case" in an industry that has prioritised sales and market share.
Twain is brought on to comment often, drily, on the Darwinist truth that everything dies, and the action involved in the final rescue from Twain's unfinished dragons will not, let's say, inspire a Pixar movie.
At the marches for women's rights in January 2017, protesters in America and elsewhere carried placards quoting the book, or drily insisting that this work of speculative fiction is not an "instruction manual" for governments.
The government has grown accustomed to beating international forecasts: the finance ministry drily noted this week that the European Commission had been "gradually catching up with reality" as it adjusted its deficit projections steadily downwards in 2016.
Seth Lloyd of MIT, in a paper which drily begins "The world has grown more complex recently, and the number of ways of measuring complexity has grown even faster," proposed three key categories: difficulty of description, difficulty of creation, and degree of organization.
By 1961, it is clear that Dodd could make a terrific painting, as demonstrated by the drily witty, "Cows and Clouds" (53), in which the contours of the clouds and their interior forms are echoed by the black-and-white patterns on the two Holstein cows standing in a green field.
If your office has any level of intelligence, it will have safeguards in place to make sure no one can just send an email to the entire office; that they have to be signed off by a minimum of two key-holders and sent from a special computer, ever since that guy from sales got fired for lying about his targets and sent the word "CUNTS" in really big font Comic Sans to everyone, including the CEO, and you all got to go home at 4 PM. That said: Have you really lived until you've seen an accidental email into an 80-reply thread of people drily asking to be un-CC'd?
It's a pity, notes Sally drily, that among Mamie's total recall was every track from The Sound of Music, now lodged all too retrievably in her own memory.
The black and white still-life photographs of these constructions were "drily classified in Latin"Perivolaris, John. Mirrors and windows: photography after postmodernism. The Bigger Picture The Redeye Newsletter 2004 Autumn, Issue 17. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
Critic John Fordham, writing in 2005, commented that "Noble likes a mixture of staccato, drily witty themes that suggest a collision of Steve Coleman and Django Bates with Wayne Shorter – and with Canadian piano guru Paul Bley in the quieter episodes".
Adler earns Holmes's unbounded admiration. When the King of Bohemia says, "Would she not have made an admirable queen? Is it not a pity she was not on my level?" Holmes drily replies that Adler is indeed on a much different level from the King.
D. C. Watt, How War Came, London: Heinemann, 1989, p.73 In response, Bonnet claimed that he and Saint-Legér Léger saw "eye to eye". Phipps, who knew about the state of relations between the two, drily noted that "in that case the eyes must be astigmatic".Watt, p. 73.
In a territory along the Aras River with semi-desert and dry steppes winter passes drily, and in more higher territories climate is mildly warm. The territory is rich of minerals – molybdenum, gold, construction materials, limestone and others. The largest plane forest in Europe is also located in the district.
Both the image and the motto are commonly considered a memento mori, with the phrase being spoken by Death: "I, too, am in Arcadia". But the enigmatic phrase remains a subject of much academic discussion. Lady Croom, enthusing about paintings of pretty landscapes, translates the phrase as "Here I am in Arcadia!" Thomasina drily comments, "Yes Mama, if you would have it so".
Paul Meurisse (; 21 December 1912 in Dunkirk - 19 January 1979 in Neuilly-sur- Seine) was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and serious dramatic roles. His screen roles ranged from the droll and drily humorous to the menacing and disturbing.
There he found support from Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond, and laid siege to Waterford, but, meeting resistance, he fled to Scotland. Henry pardoned Warbeck's Irish supporters, remarking drily that "I suppose they will crown an ape next".O'Shea, Joe "If not for collins, why is it called the rebel county?" Irish Independent 4 August 2013 Warbeck was well received by James IV of Scotland, who realised that his presence gave him international leverage.
In 2014, Entertainment Weekly listed the show at #22 in their list of the "26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever" calling it a "smart, drily funny series" and saying, "But the off-beat writing shone brightest in the smaller moments, when the gang was just sitting around a kitchen and bickering to pass the time." In 2020, Briana Kranich of ScreenRant ranked Party Down as the second-most underrated TV show of the 2000s.
The Lord Chief Justice paid ironic tribute to Hemphill's eloquence and persuasiveness, but added drily that he had entirely failed to persuade the Court that the members of the Corporation would "starve" if they were unable to make the ratepayers foot the bill for fine claret, whiskey and cigars, to say nothing of the broken wineglasses (although there were only four of them, which as the judge fairly noted seemed quite moderate in the circumstances).
In the book Street Photography Now, Howarth and McLaren write that "Einzig wanders the city that has been her home since 1990, sniffing out eccentric characters and tuning into tiny little plays that spontaneously erupt on city corners. [. . .] Einzig is a whimsical anthropologist whose seemingly arbitrary samplings show up sharp revelations". Luc Sante is quoted in the same publication as saying "Einzig represents the very ideal of the street photographer. She's alert, funny, sympathetic, quick-witted, drily romantic".
Butler had to accept the Home Office under Macmillan, not the Foreign Office which he wanted. In his memoirs, Macmillan claimed that Butler "chose" the Home Office, an assertion of which Butler drily observed in his own memoirs that Macmillan's memory "played him false".Campbell 2009, p. 273. Edward Heath corroborates Butler's claim that he had wanted the Foreign Office, and suggested that with his "quiet charm" he could have won over the Americans.Heath 1998, p. 180.
He appeared in many films from 1947 to 1977. He most commonly played spiv characters, one notable exception being the film Reach for the Sky (1956) in which he played the prosthetics expert to Douglas Bader. There again, he appeared briefly in a drily comic role as a uniformed policeman in the film The Cockleshell Heroes (also 1956). His film career ended with a role as the captain of the supertanker Liparus in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as Brander Matthews' and George H. Jessop's A Gold Mine, Henry Guy Carleton's A Gilded Fool and Ambition, Henry V. Esmond's When We Were Twenty- one, and others. He also found success in more serious works such as Augustus Thomas's In Mizzoura and Clyde Fitch's Nathan Hale. Goodwin remarried to an actress named Nella Baker Pease (married in 1890, divorced on Jan. 19, 1898).
Some early telegraph reports of the race confused the filly's odds with the weight she had carried and stated that she had won the race under 11-4 (158 pounds). One commentator in New Zealand drily remarked that she "must be a pretty useful mare if she can carry 32lb overweight and then win comfortably". In October Princess Dorrie was matched against older horses in the Cesarewitch Handicap over two and a quarter miles at Newmarket. She started second favourite but never looked likely to win and finished unplaced behind the outsider Troubador.
Robb, 5 Balzac's mother, born Anne- Charlotte-Laure Sallambier, came from a family of haberdashers in Paris. Her family's wealth was a considerable factor in the match: she was eighteen at the time of the wedding, and François Balzac fifty.Robb, 5–6 As the author and literary critic Sir Victor Pritchett explained, "She was certainly drily aware that she had been given to an old husband as a reward for his professional services to a friend of her family and that the capital was on her side. She was not in love with her husband".
His entrails were thrown onto a nearby fire. Samuel Pepys wrote an eyewitness account of the execution at Charing Cross, in which Major General Harrison was drily reported to be "looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition". This account is also quoted on a plaque on the wall of the Hung, Drawn and Quartered public house near Pepys Street, where the diarist lived and worked in the Navy Office. In his final moments, as he was being led up the scaffold, the hangman asked for his forgiveness.
This version can be found on Let It Begin Now: Music from the Spiral Dance. Maddy Prior, writing in the liner notes to the Steeleye Span retrospective Spanning the Years, drily characterises the song's countercultural appeal, in describing one 1970s performance: > 5 nights at the LA Forum with Jethro Tull. We were opening our set at the > time with the Lyke Wake Dirge, a grim piece of music from Yorkshire > concerning pergatory [sic] and we all dressed in dramatic mummers ribbons > with tall hats. The effect was stunning.
Diaghilev hired the young Stravinsky at a time when he was virtually unknown to compose the music for The Firebird, after the composer Anatoly Lyadov proved unreliable, and this was instrumental in launching Stravinsky's career in Europe and the United States of America. Stravinsky's early ballet scores were the subject of much discussion. The Firebird (1910) was seen as an astonishingly accomplished work for such a young artist (Debussy is said to have remarked drily: "Well, you've got to start somewhere!"). Many contemporary audiences found Petrushka (1911) to be almost unbearably dissonant and confused.
Titled simply "The Council of the Mice", it comes to rest on the drily stated moral that 'a risky plan can have no good result'. The story was evidently known in Flanders too, since 'belling the cat' was included among the forty Netherlandish Proverbs in the composite painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559). In this case a man in armour is performing the task in the lower left foreground.View on Wikimedia Commons A century later, La Fontaine's Fables made the tale even better known under the title Conseil tenu par les rats (II.2).
Degeneration was accepted as a serious medical term. Not until Sigmund Freud and the ushering in of a new age of psychoanalysis, was this idea seriously contested. Freud remarked rather drily in his 1905 work Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality that "It may well be asked whether an attribution of 'degeneracy' is of any value or adds anything to our knowledge". Although Nordau's work certainly reflects a reactionary strain of European thought, he also condemns the rising anti- Semitism of the late 19th century as a product of degeneration.
Her own affairs, though conducted discreetly, were said to be numerous: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was thought to be one of her lovers. When asked why he had never fought a duel to preserve his wife's reputation, Lord Jersey drily replied that this would require him to fight every man in London.Ridley, Jasper Lord Palmerston London: Constable, 1970; p. 42 Lady Jersey was one of the patronesses of Almack's, the most exclusive social club in London, and a leader of the ton during the Regency era.
Henry VII, who showed surprising clemency to the surviving rebels, including Simnel (who became a servant in the royal kitchen), readily granted it.Cogan, p.81 During the later attempt in 1495 to put another pretender, Perkin Warbeck, on the throne, Payne prudently remained passive, although he was required afterwards to enter a bond for good behaviour, which suggests that his loyalty to the Tudor dynasty was still questioned. Again the King showed clemency to those who had supported Warbeck's claim to the throne, remarking drily that this should be the end of Irish rebellions, unless the Irish wanted to "crown an ape".
In addition to her books, she published over thirty articles in scholarly journals. She also engaged in a number of joint authorships with her husband on academic work, including the 1967 book NATO and the Range of American Choice, which sought to identify desirable choices for the alliance that were politically feasible. As she later remarked drily, these efforts were "happily completed without the collaboration ending in divorce." Despite the level of her scholarship, Fox suffered from building an academic career as a married woman with children in the 1940s and 1950s, when such a path was not at all the norm.
Great pressure was put on them to convict, and evidence was brought not only of the refusal to proclaim the King, and the attempt to proclaim the Roman Catholic faith, but also of the attempted destruction of Haulbowline fort, and Meade's supposed complicity in the deaths of three men during the riot. Fynes Moryson, secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, later wrote drily that no one who knew anything about Ireland believed that any Irish jury would condemn Meade.Pawlisch p.104 Nor did they do so, maintaining that they knew that "he had not intended treason in his heart".
Lenox-Conyngham p.59 According to Elrington Ball, after the death of Kilwarden it was generally agreed that only Downes was fit to succeed him.Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 London John Murray 1926 He was one of the few judges whom Daniel O'Connell could not intimidate. At the trial of John Magee for seditious libel in 1813, O'Connell's conduct of the defence was so intemperate that another barrister said that he should have been prevented from speaking; Downes said drily that he personally regretted not having prevented O'Connell from practicing law in the first place.
The adjective to which the suffix is added may have been lost from the language, as in the case of early, in which the Anglo-Saxon word aer only survives in the poetic usage ere. Though the origin of the suffix is Germanic, it may now be added to adjectives of Latin origin, as in publicly. When the suffix is added to a word ending in y, the y changes to an i before the suffix, as in happily (from happy). This does not always apply in the case of monosyllabic words; for example, shy becomes shyly (but dry can become dryly or drily, and gay becomes gaily).
From 1967 until 1986 he was a cricket reporter for The Times. He also reported rugby union, in print and on radio. He appeared on the radio shows Sunday Half Hour and Round Britain Quiz. In 1961 he briefly joined the recently launched Westward Television to present Westward Diary after "he had been involved in a disagreement with the West Region authorities of the BBC over a comment he is alleged to have made in a two-way records programme with Derek Jones"."Alan Gibson goes to commercial TV", Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser, 9 September 1961 As a cricket commentator he was articulate and often drily humorous.
In Sharpe's Siege, Matthew Robinson, a young rifleman from the 60th Rifles reckoned he was the best shot in the company, and like Hagman liked to grind his powder fine, and load with loose power rather than the prepared cartridges when there was time. Upon observing Robinson's grind, Hagman commented drily, "If ye grind it too fine, it'll blow yer bloody head off, then nobody'll know who's best shot; thee or me." When Robinson later had the opportunity to act as sniper, his target survived, so Hagman backed him up and delivered a fatal shot. The two marksmen shook hands and agreed that Robinson was second best shot.
Emily then recited a verse: After Emily had left, Bagpuss woke up. The programme shifted from sepia to colour stop motion film, and various toys in the shop came to life: Gabriel the toad (who, unlike most Smallfilms characters, could move by a special device beneath his can without the use of stop motion animation) and a rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met),Channel 4 News, 9 December 2008. while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices.
306 though he did not think her a great beauty, in his view she would be a perfectly acceptable Queen of England (she was a distant relative of both the French and English royal families), and he seems to have found Henry's attitude to her rather baffling.Fraser p.306 He later noted drily that Cromwell was not dead more than a few months before the King was bewailing the loss of his finest minister, and, typically, blaming Cromwell's enemies for persuading him to destroy Cromwell on a trivial pretext. His dispatches are a valuable source of information about the English Court in this tumultuous period, although he was not an entirely reliable source.
In Hocus Pocus (1990), the Vietnam-veteran narrator Eugene Debs Hartke applies for graduate study in MIT's physics program, but his plans go awry when he tangles with a hippie at a Harvard Square Chinese restaurant. Hartke observes that men in uniform had become a ridiculous sight around colleges, even though both Harvard and MIT obtained much of their income from weapons research and development. ("I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.") Jailbird notes drily that MIT's eighth president was one of the three-man committee who upheld the Sacco and Vanzetti ruling, condemning the two men to death.
In 1713 he warned her of an impending Jacobite invasion: the Queen, unimpressed, noted drily that while Burnet apparently considered himself to be all-knowing, she could not help recalling that he had made a similar prophecy the previous year, which had proved to be entirely groundless. He was nominated by John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, to write answers to the works sponsored by Tillotson's friend, the Socinian businessman and philanthropist Thomas Firmin, who was funding the printing of Socinian tracts by Stephen Nye. Yet neither Burnet nor Tillotson was entirely unsympathetic to non-conformism. Of the Athanasian Creed, the new Archbishop of Canterbury wrote to the new Bishop of Salisbury, "I wish we were well rid of it".
Reviewed at the time of release, TheMusic said, "the opener shows they are still a vital rock'n'roll band, while first single "Everybody" follows with a far more laidback gait, but is powerful in its own way; Barnes' vocal tackling Don Walker's biting lyrics with the right amount of venom. Of course it can't be long before a classy Chisel love song and "All For You" is no slouch in that department." The Australian claimed, "the album's first notes consist of a Barnes vocal intro of such serrated intensity that the listener is left in no doubt, as Walker drily observed, that it's a new record by that band." Walker's song-writing that, "evokes so much with such apparent economy," was particularly praised.
He made two visits to the new American republic, in 1790–2, in hopes of being commissioned to erect an extremely elaborate monument to the new republic and George Washington that he was convinced Congress had voted, and again in 1794–5, when he was disappointed in raising the funds for his venture by private subscription. Of this unrealizable project for a bombastic marble allegory James Madison drily remarked that the sculptor "was an enthusiastic worshipper of Liberty and Fame, and his whole soul was bent on securing the latter by rearing a monument to the former". Duplicate letters from Ceracchi to Washington and George ClintonHenry Stephens Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson 1858, Appendix xi. describe plans for a national monument to Washington to be built in the newly planned capital city.
Other reviewers disagreed, The London Evening Standard noting that The Dancing Sun: Journeys to the Miracle Shrines (1993) "...is not, however, a book of credulous modern piety, but an example of that much more interesting English literary genre, the journey as a means of personal discovery."London Evening Standard, 30 December 1993. The Tablet concurred, observing that Seward had approached the subject as a sceptic but was "honest about the fact that his journey is also in part a search for reassurance for his own faltering faith"The Tablet, 26 June 1993. Reviewing Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells (2015) in the Sunday Times John Carey observes that of Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell "Seward takes a sensible view of the trio's literary output, grading it second-rate at best", while observing drily that Edith's poetry "still has its admirers.".
On its release, the film received mixed critical reviews, but it was a box office hit, earning $20 million from a $7 million budget. The movie received a broadly positive review in The New York Times, in which Janet Maslin called the ending of the film "dumb", but otherwise liked it. She wrote of it: "It's the cleverness of Eyes of Laura Mars that counts, cleverness that manifests itself in superlative casting, drily controlled direction from Irvin Kershner, and spectacular settings that turn New York into the kind of eerie, lavish dreamland that could exist only in the idle noodlings of the very, very hip.""Screen: 'Eyes of Laura Mars':In The Netherworld", Janet Maslin, The New York Times, August 4, 1978 Roger Ebert was less enthusiastic, giving the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and criticizing what he called the film's clichéd "woman in trouble" plot.
At the Restoration he was given his father's old office of Comptroller of the Navy, and was created the first and last of the Slingsby baronets of Newcells. He had already presented the King with his book "The Past and Present State of His Majesty's Navy" which argued for regular payment of sailors' wages, prohibition of private trading in goods by Naval officers and the encouragement of merchant shipping. Samuel Pepys praised the great efforts Slingsby had taken over the book, but added drily that he had too high an opinion of his own work. Despite such occasional jibes, a warm friendship sprung up between Slingsby and Pepys: Slingsby invited Pepys regularly to his house, read him his verses, and drew on his own experience of the Navy in Charles I's time to explain how Pepys' own office, Clerk of the Acts, had been performed then.
His books typically feature educated and genteel fraudsters and blackmailers who lay ludicrously ingenious plots exploiting loopholes in the legal system. There are several recurring characters, such as the drunken solicitor Mr Tewkesbury and the convoluted and exasperating witness Colonel Brain. He writes well about the judicial process, usually through the eyes of a young barrister but sometimes from the viewpoint of the judge; Friends at Court contains a memorable snub from a County Court judge to a barrister who is trying to patronise him. Cecil did not believe that judges should be too remote from the public: in Sober as a Judge, a High Court judge, in a case where the ingredients of a martini are of some importance, states drily that he will ignore the convention by which he should inquire "what is a martini?" and instead gives the recipe for the cocktail himself.
Whether Schindler's story is true or not that Beethoven at first contemptuously dismissed Diabelli's waltz as a Schusterfleck (rosalia / "cobbler's patch"), there is no doubt the definition fits the work perfectly – "musical sequences repeated one after another, each time modulated at like intervals" – as can be seen clearly in these three examples: # File:schusterfleck1.jpg # # File:schusterfleck3.jpg From the earliest days writers have commented on the juxtaposition between the waltz's simplicity and the vast, complex musical structure Beethoven built upon it, and the widest possible range of opinions of Diabelli's theme have been expressed. At one end of the spectrum is the admiration of Donald Tovey ("healthy, unaffected, and drily energetic", "rich in solid musical facts", cast in "reinforced concrete") and Maynard Solomon ("pellucid, brave, utterly lacking in sentimentality or affectation") and the kindly tolerance of Hans von Bülow ("quite a pretty and tasteful little piece, protected from the dangers of obsolescence by what one might call its melodic neutrality").
His judgments were written in a clear, sharp and decisive style, often with an abrupt opening sentence such as: "I doubt that the [Court of] King's Bench can have been conscious of the consequences of its decision in this case".Antrim County Land, Building and Investment Co. v Stewart [1904] 2 I.R 357 A good example of his judicial style can be found in Aaron's Reefs v Twiss,[1895] 2 1R 207 where the Court of Appeal divided on the question of whether certain statements in a company's prospectus were simply "optimistic" or actually fraudulent. FitzGibbon found that there is no legal difference between a company which omits crucial facts from its prospectus and one which deliberately misrepresents the facts, remarking that: "if a company cannot be floated if the whole truth be disclosed by its prospectus, it cannot be honestly launched at all". To the argument that the application of this standard of commercial honesty would be fatal to most company prospectuses, he observed drily: "So much the better".

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