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"dryly" Definitions
  1. if somebody speaks dryly, 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
"dryly" Synonyms
wryly derisively drolly ironically mockingly sarcastically sardonically satirically scoffingly scornfully sneeringly acidly mordaciously acerbically trenchantly caustically bitingly cuttingly scathingly sharply
"dryly" Antonyms
respectfully seriously sincerely unironically unsarcastically

343 Sentences With "dryly"

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" Warshawsky adds dryly: "Some people want inscriptions or engravings.
Written as dryly as possible, the guidelines are still terrifying.
"King Arthur and the round table," the Beast responds dryly.
Luke Evans as the Viscount looks dashing but acts dryly.
"I thank him for that," the Democratic lawyer said dryly.
" The audience erupted when Comey said dryly, "I sent them.
"We use every part of the Moose," Glover said dryly.
"No one believes you wrote the answers," countered Meyers dryly.
"Luckily, there are only three principal roles," he said dryly.
"I said, 'Doctor, we made that up,'" Friedkin recalls dryly.
"Hedge funds are not generally constitutional formalists," he said, dryly.
"I'm really impressed by this guy Farrell," he said dryly.
" And, he noted dryly, "It seemed more palatable than others.
"You guys seem to be doing O.K.," he said dryly.
"I can sleep through just about anything," Gaga said dryly.
"Zhirkov might be available for the final," he said, dryly.
Sanders dryly poked at the delay as he spoke to backers.
"A great, big wet T-shirt contest," Mr. Korins said dryly.
"A lot of people are crying, I guess," he added dryly.
"They didn't hire me for my comic timing," he dryly noted.
"Well, when were you going to tell me?" she asked dryly.
"I'm the tallest one," Bagwell said dryly, and so he is.
" But, he added dryly: "You've got to run a good campaign.
"The crowd is definitely going to be tough," she said, dryly.
"That's quite the coincidence," he noted dryly in a telephone interview.
"He was not a nice slave owner," Mr. Coquillette said dryly.
"He gave up on us a long time ago," she remarked dryly.
"It's kind of self-explanatory," Terry Francona, the Indians' manager, said dryly.
" The judge responded dryly, "I understand, just do the best you can.
"I don't think we were getting our money's worth," he said dryly.
"Let's just say that we weren't getting regular updates," she said dryly.
" Taking her cue, the mother sneers dryly, "It looks like a turd.
"She should try a week here," Ms. Sorokin said dryly, of Rikers.
Unable to connect, the narrator dryly observes, "All he does is bleed."
"A lot happens when you don't have family planning," Waters noted dryly.
"The budget is so bad that the pipes are leaking," he said dryly.
"They were provided cookies," one of the family's attorneys, Chris Benoit, said dryly.
"I have loved that," Arie tells Lauren after she (dryly) confesses her love.
"This was not one of our greatest days," host Alex Trebek said dryly.
His late canvases are thinly and dryly painted, maculated by streaks and smudges.
"We thought they were soldiers, but they were university students," Herzog notes, dryly.
That "caused some problems" with family members and friends, Mr. Credico said dryly.
"They're animals all right," Mr. Bolos said dryly, referring to the Snap Packers.
"Bill ended up doing James Mason and Peter Falk," Michaels told me, dryly.
"It's made no difference in my life whatsoever," Ford said dryly to laughs.
"I thought this was what the boyfriend thing was about," he said dryly.
"A great cinema role comes along a few times," Ms. Thurman said dryly.
It spoke dryly of "institutional stability" and promised to simplify the administrative regroupings.
"We've gotten to know each other really, really well," Ms. Butnick said dryly.
"I'm not sure how people think of me today," Mr. Dinkins said dryly.
"Not everybody loves them as much as I do," Mr. Kushner dryly countered.
"I remember doing the part," Mr. Sanders said dryly in a recent interview.
Rob Lowe's dryly dopey comedic presence as another gold digger is an asset.
"We love her," Ms. Assafiri said dryly, to knowing laughter in the room.
" She added dryly, "It will be interesting to see how our colleagues respond.
"It certainly didn't simplify the picture any," Republican strategist Charlie Black said dryly.
One Chinese official remarked dryly to Reuters: "Nobody would call him Uncle Cameron".
Compared with President Trump's tenure, Brexit "is much more boring," he said, dryly.
"With this kind of genius, we have nothing to worry about," Letterman responded dryly.
He applies the paint dryly, allowing the weave of the canvas to show through.
"The ones I have seen are not fresh feet," King County's Taylor said dryly.
"One of Chuck's biggest hits," Richards dryly recounted in 2014 on The Tonight Show.
Pollution affected rich and poor alike; it was "democracy of defecation," White dryly notes.
I modeled with really old women [laughs dryly]: showroom girls in their deep 30s.
"She and I are very similar," Ms. von Furstenberg observed dryly of her granddaughter.
"The media has not exactly been the fuel behind my ascent," he remarked dryly.
"This home will not be attractive to a Russian oligarch," Ms. Quinn said dryly.
And as history, it's written dryly, which renders it a little exhausting at times.
William is so dryly funny, and in a way only an Americans character could be.
"Pleasure is due to the lawyers of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company," Winchester says dryly.
"It doesn't have a plot," Ms. Smiley noted dryly in an interview after the reading.
" He paused, and said dryly, "What I'm saying is the cancer was a good thing.
Tempest. Dickson dryly remarks:  Words spoken by an oppressed and imprisoned slave, Caliban, in a
"I don't think so," the narrator responded dryly, but the jury could still be out.
"After a while, he starts to reconsider his decision-making skills," Ms. Abrams said dryly.
"Mom, we're here to buy a wedding dress, not to discuss cakes," Gabriela said dryly.
His lauding of Mr. Barnier is his dryly sarcastic way of denigrating the British leader.
"That's who was trying to tell me he understands the threat," an official said dryly.
"Do not ask me to demonstrate," she says dryly as she hands them to James.
"We are dealing with a living modified organism that can cross borders," Mogtari said dryly.
"It should not be necessary to draft separate policies for these events," it added dryly.
"She has, but she doesn't like to take advice from her mother," she answered dryly.
"It was a change from all those hats and clothes in 'Downton,'" Ms. Smith said dryly.
I am a dryly sardonic protector of the weak in a world controlled by corporate interests.
The mundane — a series of weather reports, dryly delivered — bumps up against the violent and strange.
" He said he hasn't checked out Tinder, adding dryly: "I rely on the kindness of strangers.
"And Johns has made a few things since then," the Broad's director, Joanne Heyler, said dryly.
Crawling down Hollywood Boulevard, they spoke dryly of eminences they held in less than high regard.
She's dryly funny, throwing out zingers and self-deprecating quips that only reinforce her glamorous allure.
"I'm guessing sending someone a Spotify playlist just doesn't have the same sentiment?" she said dryly.
In the footage, unearthed by Politico earlier this year, he can be warm and dryly funny.
"In the storeroom they had 50- and 100-pound bags of rice," Ms. Leon recalled dryly.
" The dryly descriptive titles have a precedent in "Railroad Incident, August 1995" from "Assorted Fire Events.
"I do feel like an expert at being in my body," she dryly remarks at one point.
"Gus is sponsored by a whole bunch of people, and I'm sponsored by Gus," he said dryly.
"Let it come up, then I guess you can tell us what's there," he told Santoli dryly.
"Every successful revolution starts with takeover of closed visitor center with gift shop," said one user dryly.
Most people who lived in Unadilla back in '98 have moved away ("or died," Hickey offered, dryly).
Ms. McKechnie dryly pointed out the contemporary relevance of a number that conjures a slot machine arcade.
"I would not discount the commercial motivations," Mr. Kaplan, a screenwriter and former studio executive, said dryly.
"Armageddon," he remarks, dryly, and it's as much a reminder of the film's message as anything else.
"He's exercising his freedom to speak, and I'm exercising my freedom not to react," Lockhart replied dryly.
" Asked if she was in the carriage for a long time, she replied dryly, "Halfway around London.
"Well, no one in Silicon Valley believes that anybody knows more than us," Mr. Lanier says dryly.
He noted dryly before the service that his fellow evangelical leaders might not be happy with him.
In 2000, Ms. Moorer released "Feeling That Feeling Again," which dryly outlined the story of the deaths.
Asked what was driving the Islamic State attacks, the monastery's spokesman, Father Elijah Ava Mina, chuckled dryly.
" Navarro, giving a truly iconic eye roll, dryly piled on: "He thinks you're me, that's the problem.
The panel is mounted on a round, dryly painted green panel set within a thick black frame.
"Like Bernie, I'm from Brooklyn and unlike Israeli Jews, we do not care for fighting," he said dryly.
As the New York Times dryly noted, the wet T-shirt scene does not appear in the novel.
" The authors dryly conclude, "Another way to avoid older adults is to keep them out of the workplace.
"I keep getting called a punk poet in the press, because they can't say dyke," she said dryly.
"That's wonderful," Mr. Rangel said dryly, agreeing to talk only if the reporter walked backward the whole time.
"It's not like three-act narrative ballets come along every day of the week," Mr. Tennant dryly noted.
Barris was often the "diversity hire," and dryly describes himself as a "beneficiary-slash-victim" of such initiatives.
Wednesday's devastating series finale — dryly named "START," for the 1980s arms talks — gave my pause button a workout.
Most documents emanating from the National Security Council amount to dryly worded policy dissertations and intricate planning documents.
" Then, on the way off the stage, Lenz tweeted, Biden "said to me dryly, 'You're a real sweetheart.
I was thinking of it in my song "Cracking," and some others — extreme emotion delivered dryly without sentiment.
The paper also dryly noted "the country's growing role as a center of gravity in fighting climate change."
" The N.C.A.A. dryly noted that Haith had "failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the men's basketball program.
With the dryly named Portable Home Speaker, however, the company looks to split the difference between portable and premium.
"There's nothing more American," Mr. Cross proclaimed dryly, "than standing firm and resolute in the face of rational thought."
Long-time users of Mastodon comment dryly in the public timelines that Twitter must have done something terrible again.
" Ms. Brownridge said dryly that, considering where she was when she heard about the letter, "This was extremely ironic.
Kaufman was among those lucky poets who looked like a poet; he seemed his own voice made dryly manifest.
"I was a rather plump, unphysical and unintelligent child, or so I was always being told," he said dryly.
He apologized for whining; when he dreamed up conspiracy theories, he labelled them as conspiracy theories, and laughed dryly.
"I knew with absolute certainty that we had agreed on something," Mr. Salonen dryly recalled a few days ago.
One chapter of "Willful Disregard" begins with a long, dryly comic comparison between love and the Swedish welfare state.
"Marcovaldo," Italo Calvino A dryly humorous collection of tales about a poor Italian family and simple things in life.
"She already sent out a tweet raising money on that eyeroll," the Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted dryly.
If night work was ''against nature,'' the lawyer Blanche Crozier said dryly in 1933, then starvation was even more so.
"Before it's replicated on a number of species, I'm reluctant to say that we made a discovery," he said dryly.
Speaking to Senate Republicans over lunch, Mitch McConnell dryly mimicked Gerald Ford's inaugural address after the disgrace of Richard Nixon.
"There's something of a mismatch between Trump's talking points and the specific policies he's proposed so far," Levitt dryly replied.
Rubio dryly noted that news outlets often get more news about the investigation out than any of Senate intelligence hearings.
"Midwestern guy," he said dryly during a long afternoon interview, folding his hands over his belly like a church deacon.
Clinton said dryly Monday night after Mr. Trump said she had been fighting the Islamic State her entire adult life.
"If a performance of mine is called 'subtle' one more time, I might lose my mind," Ms. Sheil remarks dryly.
"Let me translate that if I can," Hillary Clinton said dryly after Donald J. Trump talked up his tax plan.
Produced in France, the series dryly pokes fun at the universal themes of self-serious espionage thrillers and bureaucratic ineptitude.
It's a hypnotic style, dryly funny, or at least aware of the ways in which its fussiness might be amusing.
In this CCTV clip, a news announcer dryly narrates the parade, commenting on its "originality" and adherence to Soviet style.
" Heye added dryly, "That is a much better place, as opposed to 'did you or did you not obstruct justice?
"For example, it seems to be wearying for white people to hear about the racism in America," she said dryly.
His son, Tim, opened the door and dryly remarked that his father had been on a strict diet of late.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow noted dryly to reporters recently that his heart attack came after that chaotic meeting.
"This is probably not the only time it's ever happened," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said dryly, to laughter.
"Only God knows," she said dryly, at the idea her captors and the pilots overhead were in fact in cahoots together.
At the same time, he also offered a dryly reportorial description of the humiliations and restrictions brought on by his disease.
" Valerie waited a beat, like an actual comedian, then said, very dryly, "Still, it's been a while since I saw penis.
The rather dryly named "Tech and Society with Mark Zuckerberg" will feature, well, conversations on tech and society with Mark Zuckerberg.
While Mr. Allison released fewer albums from the mid-1970s on, he never stopped writing songs, in his dryly satirical vein.
" Williams, speaking by telephone as she rode to the studio, put it a little more dryly: "Thank you to the movement.
" When Ivanka tweeted a FEMA update about the California wildfires, Mr. Blum retweeted her, noting dryly: "It's fun to play government.
"I'm not sure that people in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states would respond well to that suggestion," she said dryly.
"I wondered, by the end of our time, how Walmart ever made a profit," Murry Cohen, the former judge, said dryly.
Obama's persistent quarreling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel over settlement expansion is treated dryly, in just a few pages.
Niels Provos is uniquely skilled in that his talent as a blacksmith is only matched by his ability to be dryly funny.
But you register its points intellectually and dryly, when what you really want — and need — is to be chilled to the bone.
"We're just here for the Roots," Mr. Cooper answered dryly, referring to the band scheduled to play and making Ms. Stebner laugh.
Newspapers published details of his athletic prowess, with a photograph that Miller dryly notes could have doubled as a LinkedIn profile picture.
Jensen acknowledged dryly that the film would be "unable to include a tag saying that 'no animals were harmed' " during its production.
"I told him he had very done a good job of accomplishing the task the United States set him," he told reporters dryly.
Lisa W. Alpert, Green-Wood's director of development, dryly noted that he "would have been the first President Clinton" if he had won.
Who is telling the truth matters "only if you are dealing in reality," said former Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye dryly.
On the candidate's list, one of the biggest technology companies was ranked lowest, in terms of both money and excitement, she noted dryly.
For no good reason, he took away Bjornstam's command, an act of mutiny that, she dryly points out, is generally punishable by death.
"If we could export wing-clippers, we could solve the national debt," Ryan Tubridy, the country's most popular TV host, dryly told me.
"I know that if we hadn't handed the paintings over to the Dutch authorities, they never would have found them," she added dryly.
Also funny is James Rolleston, who dryly steals scenes as a 17-year-old rugby player who seeks out Jen and Mel's services.
"I understand why he has to do this—to prove he's a man", she observed dryly after one chest-puffing display from Vladimir Putin.
You might have noticed something funny if you visited TechCrunch dot com this morning (aside from the usual dryly hilarious tech commentary, that is).
"You can't wait for someone else to be ready or you'll wake up and be 90 and not have seen anything," she stated dryly.
"I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has reopened," she concluded dryly.
"West Virginia is very interested in this hearing that we're having today," the state's Democratic senator, Joe Manchin III, said dryly at one point.
"I don't want to hurt your feelings," Dr. Smiddy told him dryly, "but you're nowhere near qualifying for black lung or Social Security" disability.
But why would someone watch a senator dryly explain NAFTA when they could watch, say, a YouTube video of Chris Evans on Jimmy Kimmel?
PARELES Modal guitar riffs, handclaps, dryly urgent voices: this is what Tinariwen has been doing since the group emerged from the North African desert.
"I think so," Mr. Clapper said dryly, adding that he and his colleagues were glad to be challenged and ready to explain their views.
" Mr. Hammond, who announced money for driverless vehicles, noted dryly that this was "a technology that I believe the Labour Party knows something about.
They first met Rasputin a year later: "We made the acquaintance of a man of God," Nicholas recorded dryly but mystically in his diary.
"I don't believe you'll be seeing a person eaten by a snake during my time," he dryly told a gathering of television critics last year.
The game is reminiscent of Owlchemy Labs' dryly absurd Job Simulator, but with Rick and Morty settings and co-creator Justin Roiland's palette of voices.
"I'm delighted to hear you have a head of integrity," one member noted dryly when Mr. Schroepfer referred to a colleague in charge of ethics.
I don't have small hands unlike some people," he jokes, not-so-subtly ribbing President Donald Trump before he adds, dryly: "Sorry for getting political.
Spiked with dryly funny exchanges and lovingly shot by Eric Robbins on 35-millimeter film, "In a Valley of Violence" nevertheless feels exasperatingly two-dimensional.
"Colliding Dreams" takes on the unwieldy task of condensing the topic into a feature documentary that capably if somewhat dryly covers more than a century.
Ms. Soper's setting takes a dryly literal approach, with recorded sounds of a spinning top mixing with scrambled phrases and her own live, fragmented, recitation.
Mr. Beatty is old enough to remember the suffocating puritanical atmosphere of the '50s, and this movie's portrayal of bygone courtship rituals is dryly comedic.
Mr. Chappelle and Chris Rock, making a guest appearance, dryly mocked everyone in the room for failing to recognize the extent of racism in America.
" After a long pause, Buttigieg -- who happened to be up next in the line of opening statements -- dryly quipped: "It's original, I'll give you that.
Progress is hampered by another factor: "We have a century's worth of data on how movement is generated by neural activity," says BrainGate's Dr Hochberg dryly.
Asus' dryly named Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 is now available in the US for $429 — a price that makes it among the more expensive options.
Or, right now, as part of a trial offer from Audible, you can hear it recited, if somewhat dryly, by the actress Susan Varon for free.
There was the old-school former governor, speaking earnestly — and truth be told, dryly — about democratic institutions and the need to respect verdicts rendered by voters.
Once Simpson's golf ball landed dryly and safely on the island green at the brutish, 210-yard 266th hole, the champion's long walk home could begin.
"I understood why she said it," Mr. Farneti said dryly a few months later in the lobby of the Hôtel Costes in Paris, drinking a Coke.
When you're almost as popular as the Pope, an investigation is certain, and the movie is dotted with dryly revealing interrogations of Aimee's family and associates.
" I chatted with Governor Brown during the eclipse, and she dryly made the point: "In Oregon, we actually make public policy based on science and data.
As researchers at Oxford dryly noted, the law "could require a complete overhaul of standard and widely used algorithmic techniques" — techniques already permeating our everyday lives.
While the resettlement worker dryly laid out a list of the program's do's and don'ts, Fantone offered her own house rules: No internet after 2000 p.m.
"One of the things that I found appealing when I went into it was that I would not have to deal with ethical dilemmas," he says dryly.
Seth Rogen plays script supervisor Sandy Schklair, who has also claimed to be The Room's de facto director, as an audience surrogate dryly observing the whole mess.
A wonderful exhibition at the Landing gallery last summer, which included stunning works by Tanya Aguiñiga, Loie Hollowell, Lenore Tawney, was titled dryly—and reductively—2015 Women.
"Now John was being obedient to the dictionary definition of bullshit," he observes dryly amid an interview with John Stagliano, director of an adult video called Buttland.
"If anything, some of this may indicate that the vetting for vice president was a better process than maybe some would have imagined," Mr. Stutzman said dryly.
And Jerry Seinfeld's latest "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" pairs him with the dryly witty creator of "Saturday Night Live," Lorne Michaels, in New York (streaming, Crackle).
But no: "Black is slimming," she says, in a tone of dryly funny boredom that's Mash's signature, and which Ms. Parsons captures with perfect goth-girl insouciance.
"Kind of funny for an ideology that rewards death with the promise of sex with 72 partners," dryly notes my friend Max Mutchnick of "Will & Grace" fame.
In my imaginary version of what sex would be like, I never fantasized about getting fingered so dryly that my right labia puffed up like a balloon.
The successive building up and wiping away of pigment results in "abstract pictures," as most are dryly titled, whose hidden depths and lost pasts remain stubbornly inaccessible.
She's joined by Jason Bateman as Wilde, and the dryly comic actor is a great match for a guy who will do anything to make a buck.
"They could do this tomorrow," Judge Engelhardt said, leading Mr. Letter to dryly point out that Mr. Trump would need to sign off on new laws, too.
The naïve Layne works in an insurance office and has been goaded into online dating by her co-worker, the sharp and dryly funny Suz (Stephanie Styles).
Mr. Roemer's former chief of staff, Len Sanderson, dryly told me that he didn't hear of any other members of Congress claiming their own winnings or losses.
Instead, a clerk from the Alabama Supreme Court dryly notified me that the justices had just set an execution date for my longtime client, Doyle Lee Hamm.
In the video, artists Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Werner Hirsch perform dryly as a punk and a drag queen, playing reluctant, even antagonistic, parts for the camera.
Indeed, a number of Democrats on Wall Street have dryly noted that every time their colleagues complain in the press, Ms. Warren picks up more votes in Iowa.
Klobuchar, who had one of the finest and most confident performances of the night, practically rolled her eyes at Buttigieg as she dryly went through his thin resume.
In the university office, all the women had petted him and were in awe of his mystique: he had seemed thoughtful, forgetful, bumbling, dryly humorous, and high-minded.
"He has a camp here, but he does most of his work out by the beach; he has his own thing," Arena said dryly a few years ago.
Eric Brager — a bearish, dryly comic A.U.V. expert from New York — had explained what I would be looking at when I saw the sonar data visualized on screen.
"This number is sufficiently intuitive to allow one to grasp the contribution of personal CO2 emissions to the loss of Arctic sea ice," the researchers wrote dryly. Indeed.
She is a dryly comic foil to Ms. Shaw's General — a part played with such sly machismo, you wish someone would cast her in a Tom Clancy adaptation.
Told to use bureaucratic methods, "I set about the business of removing my own chief," he said, then added dryly, "You oughtn't to listen to this," prompting laughter.
Donald and Hillary look "just like teenagers in love" in the flashbulb moment, as David Patrick Columbia, the editor of the website New York Social Diary, notes dryly.
In a 1975 paper, researchers William Wagenaar and Sabato D. Sagaria dryly note that many damaging global problems—population growth, pollution, food shortages—are driven by exponential processes.
In 2009, he dryly described himself as a "pioneer" of OxyContin, an addiction to which nearly torpedoed his life and career until he went to rehab in 2002.
" Shawn Vizgan dryly explains that it's not always easy to justify but the phenomenon itself can always be a fallback: "No one has ever cared about it for me.
" Bierce, who had known terror as a Union soldier at the Battle of Shiloh and elsewhere, dryly informs the reader, "What he heard was the ticking of his watch.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time," she said dryly, after specifying that her product in the 1980s was Ecstasy, which mostly trades as Molly these days.
The reporter described the base as equipped with everything except weapons, ammunition and armored vehicles, which she dryly noted the US took with them while leaving virtually everything else behind.
After allowing Alito to go on, and mindful that the Court has often allowed doctors to stand in the shoes of women challenging such laws, Ginsburg spoke up again dryly.
"A lot of people have been striking out a ton over the last year and a half," General Manager Sandy Alderson said, dryly, outside the Mets clubhouse before the game.
The connection is heightened by the presence in both plays of the invaluable Ms. Findlay, whose Hazel possesses a spikiness that can be dryly funny one minute, alarming the next.
"White people in Connecticut getting a divorce," author Tayari Jones supplies dryly, from the fringe of a migraine, when I begin to ask her about the title of her newest novel.
Unlike the usual bleak "Nordic noir" crime stories, In Order of Disappearance is quirky and often dryly amusing, recalling (entirely intentionally) both the Coen brothers' Fargo and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
"Probably would have been better if we'd gotten a Baptist choir, but I kind of like it by itself, just bass and guitar," Waits remarked dryly in the album's press kit.
Chinese director Jun Geng's latest starts out with that dryly comedic premise, but quickly becomes an almost silent tale about a handful of bad guys that aren't really all that bad.
But the Commucar was primarily an exercise in mechanical engineering — in a symposium presentation, the professors behind it dryly noted that they could defend "only the educational aspects" of the project.
One staffer dryly noted President Donald Trump already beat Gianforte to the punch, a decade ago, when he clothes-lined Vince McMahon and, later, shaved his head in a WWE match.
Ted and I have a lot of differences," Graham started during an appearance on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," dryly quipping of his own explanation, "I'm getting better at this.
Macintyre, meanwhile, is a longtime columnist for The Times of London and the author of 11 elegant, authoritative and dryly humorous nonfiction works, focusing most recently on 20th-century British espionage.
"We've won quite a few games," Matt Holliday noted, dryly, when asked about the seven-game losing streak the team ended with an 222-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
In the book, his progress is partly inhibited by his (often dryly amusing) self-flattering regard for his mission, which can seem as towering and consuming as his regard for Aspern.
Online, he bantered with fans in a dryly humorous Twitter feed and even trash-talked with Jennings while knowing (but unable to reveal) that he would fall just shy of his record.
Other highlights of this first week include Lucrecia Martel's "Zama," a lovely looking, formally inventive and often dryly witty exploration of colonialism, its crimes and absurdities, set in 18th-century South America.
Wearing a bolo tie and his trademark fedora, Mr. Cohen, in his acceptance speech, dryly made light of the fact that none of his records had ever been honored at the Grammys.
Making much, and not wrongly, of the pastoral charm of the book, Sweet does not, perhaps, sufficiently underline its ironic, dryly witty and, in its own muted, stoical manner, even tragic aspect.
" Hence, the impulse among TERFs to proclaim their "no-nonsense" character; witness the billboard Ms. Parker paid to have put up last fall dryly defining a woman as an "adult human female.
Season 2 reveals that a dorm fire occurred during the protest and was assumed to be rioting "because, you know, black people were involved," Giancarlo Esposito dryly explains, as the series' unnamed narrator.
"Being somewhat sloppy, allegedly" with classified information is "obviously a different proposition than maintaining a private homemade server in your basement when you're the secretary of state for four years," Rosen commented dryly.
Though allergic to pop sentimentality, Mr. Comstock is capable of expressing a dryly wistful worldly-wise tenderness when applying himself to a ballad, and this restraint gives his song interpretations a poignant undercurrent.
While he occasionally demonstrates a quick wit, he is more likely to dryly move the game along than crack a joke that would eat up valuable time, making him more statesman than comedian.
"I didn't know there was going to be a commotion about it," the actor, as dryly humorous as ever, told the talk show host Steve Harvey in his final televised interview last March.
"Real rapists rarely monologue," one of them remarks dryly about the third season's college rapist and his supervillain-ish explanation for why he's assaulted and shaved the heads of at least five strangers.
Waiting for her husband on the landing pad of their church in Kennebunkport, Barbara dryly noted that if the parachute didn't open, at least they wouldn't have to go far for the funeral.
The politicians he's attacking are required to be serious, both the Tory stuffed shirt and the young female Labour upstart, who is dryly funny in private but can't risk showing it in public.
"You assumed wrong," Comey had said dryly, taking a blue felt-tip pen out of his jacket pocket and crossing that part off the draft schedule before him in an overly dramatic fashion.
The drums knocked dryly on "Energy" and the sample loops on "Know Yourself" and "10 Bands" pulled from what sounded like horror movie soundtracks, with eerie chimes backing up Drake's boasts and threats.
Mister America takes note of exactly how such men function in 2019, drawing a direct line between toxic male cultural spaces and contemporary politics as it dryly dissects the curdling of white male rage.
Kristie Mayhugh had been enrolled in the prestigious veterinary program at Texas A&M but is currently earning a living in an automotive plant—"a different line of work,"as she dryly puts it.
He was good at it, and he dryly joked that other artists would envy how widely his work had been seen, though it had mainly been viewed beneath shoes in elevators and office buildings.
Ms. Lo's voice — dryly funny, straightforward and occasionally tender — shines through in every recipe, which taken as a whole reflect the way a carefully stocked, international pantry makes American cooking more simple and delicious.
The group's public stunts have resulted in ample news media coverage, and Lane deftly interweaves some of the funniest clips, like one of Greaves dryly resisting the questions of an incredulous-sounding Megyn Kelly.
He dryly refers to his homeland as "the most relaxing place in the world" during Mr. Fogel's visit to Moscow, after Mr. Fogel has had enough experience to know it's more likely the opposite.
The barrage of inflammatory comments in joint interviews published Sunday and Monday in Britain and Germany elicited alarm and outrage in Europe, even as Ms. Merkel dryly characterized Mr. Trump's positions as nothing new.
After three years and two children, Mr. Wallrich was ready to sell — and as Mr. Wilson dryly noted in his memoir, "Seeing Shelley Plain: Memories of New York's Legendary Phoenix Book Shop" (2001), Mrs.
Gerard and Kelly do not treat the house as the historical monument dryly described on the bronze plaque at the gate, built for a nuclear family, but as a trampoline for an alternative household.
It may all sound a little dryly didactic, but it did not come across that way, thanks to the ingenuity and ebullience of Bach's music and to the energy and passion of the Trinity performers.
Yes, that even applies to something like CSI, which might have featured horrible murders but also a dryly witty team of crime solvers who made sure, on a weekly basis, that justice would be served.
The show is framed as the work of a documentary crew, dispatched by the BBC to study young people in rural areas who "feel more marginalized than ever," as text dryly explains before each episode.
In the later paintings, which are dated between 1953 and '65, Belson usually works on a square surface with a centrally located circle or sphere, or with an inflected field of dryly painted monochromatic color.
In FIFA's press release, they stated dryly: Something else noteworthy: current President Gianni Infantino was eager to throw Scala under the bus after Scala condemned Infantino for alleged corruption, including rejecting a proposed $2 million salary.
The Circle's social media obsession is introduced in one dryly funny scene where a pair of employees alternately scold Mae for her low engagement rate, and remind her that all Circle social activity is strictly optional.
"It's become pretty clear that the Jennifer Lawrence 'scolding' was taken out of context and that she was dryly joking with a journalist who was indeed using his phone to take photos of her," Hathaway wrote.
The book includes the original New Yorker profile, published in 1997, as well as Mr. Singer's dryly funny account of the real estate tycoon's response and a more sober chapter reflecting on Mr. Trump the candidate.
He indulged in a dramatic recounting of his surprise victory on election night, listing states he had won and noting dryly that many observers, including some on his own team, had been shocked at his success.
We are supposed to see that using language is not a dryly intellectual enterprise and that to be able to speak with authority is to have a knack for endlessly projecting our concepts into new contexts.
As the title of "Ghostbox Cowboy" indicates, the unpopulated metropolises built by China's government have a metaphoric affinity with this unusual movie — a scary, dryly funny dissection of entrepreneurial absurdism bleeding into existential and metaphysical despair.
He is dryly funny, and occasionally he returned to the busy group to deliver a droll comment on the technological advances they'd witnessed since the early days of 16-mm handhelds and 12-inch television screens.
"I could've very easily probably made the same record five times by now and just gone right down that middle lane and played it safe, and I'd have $80 million in the bank," Simpson said dryly.
The next years produced the rock band the Spin Doctors, the political sitcom "Spin City" and the dryly comic documentary "Spin," assembled from satellite feeds that captured politicians behind the scenes, unguarded, honing their messages for public consumption.
Born in Paris and raised in the northern port city of Le Havre, Lagarde is a vocal proponent of women as senior executives, once noting dryly that if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, it might have survived.
For a composer whose painstaking process had become mildly notorious — he took the better part of 10 years to complete a single 15-minute piece, dryly called "Sudden Time" — there was a sense that a dam had burst.
But if a movie's awards chances become the only conversation about it, then its genuine, ineffable pleasures risk transforming into the film geek equivalent of sports stats, dryly predicting that movie's chances of winning the race to an Oscar.
Pickles" gravy train, a point that's stressed to Jeff -- repeatedly -- by his producer Seb (Frank Langella, terrific even by his standards), who dryly describes the Clark Kent-Superman dynamic at play by telling his star, "Jeff needs to heal.
BERLIN — This year's Golden Bear for best feature film at the Berlin International Film Festival was awarded on Saturday to "Synonyms," a dryly comic, largely autobiographical drama about a young Israeli trying to reinvent himself in modern-day Paris.
"It's become pretty clear that the Jennifer Lawrence 'scolding' was taken out of context and that she was dryly joking with a journalist who was indeed using his phone to take photos of her," Hathaway, 33, wrote in a Facebook post.
" The committee says it expects the government to respond to its recommendations within two months — noting rather dryly: "We hope that this will be much more comprehensive, practical, and constructive than their response to the Interim Report, published in October 2018.
It wouldn't be an xx album without Sim and Madley Croft dryly intoning things like "I just don't remember the thrill of affection," but those moments feel different in the light of the specificity and bounteousness that I See You suggests.
Also timely: The Supreme Court now consists of just one woman, Donna (a dryly funny Lynda Gravatt), which simplifies matters when it comes to a crucial ruling: Should the citizens subjugate themselves to the army or escape into the wild?
In her canny signature piece from 1960, "Guess Who I Saw Today" (written by Murray Grand and Elisse Boyd), a woman baits her husband by dryly telling him a story in which he turns out to be the central villain.
" But a married candidate can't have a gorgeous young model fly up to D.C. from Miami for the weekend to visit his house — "the infamous townhouse,'' as Hart's son dryly calls it — and not attract questions if they are seen.
On Thursday, graciously thanking the sponsors of her program titled "Tudor, Ashton, World Premiere" and saying a few words about each production, she dryly suggested that the three works represented a survey of the last 80 years of narrative ballet.
At the Morgan, pieces premised on driving rhythmic verve and timbral relationships (like "Douce dame jolie") were made more distinctive by coming next to compositions that created drama through dryly absurdist theatrical recitations ("Landscaping for Privacy") or dreamy counterpoint ("Lullaby").
The second, "Never Mind," loops back to a particularly nightmarish day in Patrick's childhood at the Melrose family home in the South of France, capped off with a Pinter-esquedinner party with dialogue so dryly vicious it nearly vaporizes the roast.
But the connections to tap's past stay personal — how Mr. Bubbles mentored Mr. Green, how Robinson offered to take Mr. Briggs on the road when he was only a boy — so the film feels present and alive, rather than dryly historical.
Staffers who spoke with CNN Business recalled an executive dryly reading a few lines apologizing for a period of uncertainty and notifying those in the room -- who ranged from entry-level hires to senior-managers -- that their jobs were being eliminated.
"I keep getting called a punk poet in the press, because they can't say dyke," Eileen Myles dryly observed in an April feature about the resurgence of interest in her unflinching, romantic and raw depictions of New York misfits and creatives.
As audience members take their seats, the performers are already engaged in matter-of-fact tasks, dryly reciting trabalenguas (Spanish tongue twisters) and rearranging objects strewn across the space: ladders, stools, laptops, power strips, swaths of pastel and fluorescent fabric.
In his early, ephemeral earthworks, some of which are dryly documented by collages of photographs and maps in the center's indoor galleries, Mr. Oppenheim (1938-2011) sought to integrate art and nature, an ambition he shared with his friend Robert Smithson, among others.
"The Israelis are quicker at destroying than the Europeans are at building," said 61-year-old Wassif Hanani, a father of four who has lived in Khirbet Tana all his life, his wind-beaten face cracking at the eyes as he laughed dryly.
He just wants to be an ordinary bloke, and Mr. Ryan, working with the director Nash Edgerton ("Gringo"), deftly and dryly exploits the gap between Ray's violent occupation and his efforts to be a good father, boyfriend, brother, ex-husband and mentor.
In his fourth month on the job, he fired South Bend's first black police chief, the root of some African-American residents' distrust of him, and a decision he admitted later was made on dryly legalistic grounds, without concern for the human fallout.
While the themes within the show are often dark, "The Deuce" can also be dryly funny, such as a scene in which one actress boasts about getting the chance to perform with a "trained actor" -- his signature credit being a toothpaste commercial.
While his colleagues take to mocking him dryly (over beers later on, they point out a bill on the floor of the bar and ask him what he's going to do about it), higher-ups in the organization decide to celebrate him.
Philippe Desan, in "Montaigne: A Life" (Princeton; translated from the French by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal), his immense new biography, dryly insists that our "Château d'Yquem" Montaigne, Montaigne the befuddled philosopher and sweet-sharp humanist, is an invention, untrue to the original.
Instead, the show demonstrated that if you can accurately evoke the dryly hilarious but anxiety-ridden mentality of an insecure high schooler, audiences will still feel the kind of stomach-churning suspense that young people really have as they face everyday social struggles.
Cedar Rapids Gazette columnist Lyz Lenz tweeted Friday night that Biden dryly called her a "real sweetheart" in private after the two shared an onstage exchange over Biden's support for the Defense of Marriage Act and the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
The composer most famous for dryly intoning the words "I am sitting in a room" has made works that involve using his alpha brainwaves to cause orchestral instruments to oscillate, so of course his mind's good at making connections between disparate fields and forms.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who made her screen debut in "Halloween," appears as a drifter who hitches a ride into Antonio Bay, while her real mother, Janet Leigh, is dryly comic as one of the town's leading residents, in charge of organizing its centennial celebration.
" Microsoft suggested in a statement that it did not want to be seen as collaborating with WikiLeaks, declaring dryly that its "preferred method for anyone with knowledge of security issues, including the C.I.A. or WikiLeaks, is to submit details to us at [email protected].
"I kick myself every day," Mr. Snyder said repeatedly as he testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, saying his mistake was trusting employees — "career bureaucrats, " he dryly called them, and "so-called experts" — who consistently misinformed him that the city's water was safe.
It was enthralling to see the meaning emerge, to observe the subtle uses of tense and aspect and mood, and feel the force of the small, indefinable, not strictly necessary words that linguists dryly call "function words" and which are known in Greek grammar as particles.
The trial is overseen by a group of people cosplaying as the characters erasing Jim Carrey's memories in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, including Justin Theroux, the dryly funny Sonoya Mizuno, and (I swear I am not kidding about this) Sally Field playing a depressed computer.
" That "her," of course, is Bathsheba, upon whom David spied while she bathed and then contrived to marry by murdering her husband; the result of this wickedness was the future King Solomon, "the next in the line of succession," McCabe notes dryly, "toward Christ our savior.
" The Times reported dryly the next day, "The fact that women voted for the first time at a general election made things comparatively interesting at the polling booths, but there was no confusion, and the women as a rule voted with as little difficulty as the men.
On the back of one shirt they had stitched the phrase "Randomly Chosen" — an ironic nod to allegedly random searches at airports and borders, which claim to be indiscriminate but often target those with darker skin.. "When we travel, we always hear that," Mr. Huseby said dryly.
Instead, Facebook gets to control the timing and flow of any official announcements it chooses to make about "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" — dropping these self-selected disclosures as and when it sees fit, and making them sound as routine as possible by cloaking them in its standard, dryly worded newspeak.
Spike Lee, whose "Do The Right Thing" is considered one of the great movies not to have won an Oscar, has lamented "another all-white ballot"; Don Cheadle, who got a Best Actor nomination in 2004 for "Hotel Rwanda", has joked dryly about parking cars at the event.
STUDENT Legend at Princeton University holds that during the Revolution, the cannon shot that decapitated a portrait of George II in the school's Nassau Hall was fired by none other than Alexander Hamilton, who was "fresh from a rival place of education," as a later account dryly put it.
After nearly half an hour, a chattering and dryly abrasive passage of electronic polyphony overtook the violins, eventually vibrating throughout the cavernous room: Fans of Mr. Perich's more intense sonic explorations might have felt like raising devil-horn hands at this decidedly metal moment — with apologies to the cathedral.
"Thinking about parking seems to take place in the reptilian cortex, the most primitive part of the brain responsible for making snap decisions about urgent fight-or-flight choices, such as how to avoid being eaten," as Shoup dryly wrote in his 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking.
The films of Ms. Martel's so-called Salta Trilogy — "La Ciénaga," which established her reputation when it was shown at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival; and "The Holy Girl" and "The Headless Woman," which had their premieres in competition at Cannes — are dryly comic and, at times, horrifying domestic dramas.
From the opening moments of the play, directed by Sarna Lapine and presented by Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater, Kristolyn Lloyd makes a charming and entirely sympathetic Jo. Nate Mann, in a lovely New York stage debut, gives her the ideal companion in his awkward, dryly funny Laurie.
While one source dryly described the ramblings on Kim as "very entertaining," they're laughing at him, not with him, and it is behavior like this that has dramatically undermined the president's global political power at a time when the US is trying to build support for action against China and Iran.
Ms. Mulligan's unnamed character is dryly funny on any number of topics, from the vagaries of fate ("I got Southampton," she says with regard to picking a travel destination at random) to airport etiquette and a job interview that she recollects in painstaking, bitterly comic detail, throwing in a fart joke for emphasis.
In the summer of 2014, Mr. Kjartansson and a group of friends and relations staged a performance in Vienna that consisted of their rehearsing and shooting, over the course of a month, an adaptation of Halldor Laxness's World War II-era novel "World Light," a dryly comic epic of poetic ambition and failure.
The directors, Joseph Dorman ("Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness") and Oren Rudavsky ("A Life Apart: Hasidism in America"), capably if somewhat dryly assemble material that covers more than a century, roughly from the pogroms that drove Jews from Europe in the 1880s to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel in 1995.
" Covering the swearing-in of Abraham D. Beame as mayor of New York City in 1974 — on the heels of the eight-year run of Mr. Beame's glamorous predecessor, John V. Lindsay — Mr. Carroll wrote dryly: "The Beames are not a reclusive family, but they do not coordinate their activities for the 6 o'clock news.
The surprise move, revealed in a dryly worded proposal to amend the Constitution, is the boldest yet by Mr. Xi as he seeks to strengthen the party's control over a modernizing society and restore China to what he considers its rightful place as a global power — an agenda that his allies have suggested requires his personal leadership.
As women at Ms. Silverstein's gathering cited statistics about gender inequality in moviedom — women buy 50 percent of movie tickets in the United States, but only 7 percent of the 250 top-grossing films in 2016 were directed by women — several dryly noted that it seemed appropriate to have a torture-themed horror movie as a backdrop.
In the exact opposite of a scene from Dead Poet's Society, its robot voice dryly intoned a poem from Robert Frost: One of my wishes is that those dark trees,So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,But stretched away unto the edge of doom ... The foreboding imagery was weirdly appropriate.
Trump-themed barbs came from various directions, including a reunion of "9 to 5" stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, who spoke of giving a bigot his comeuppance then and now; and "Veep's" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who dryly suggested an impeachment storyline was jettisoned because the writers feared someone else might beat the HBO comedy to the punch.
To me it's a dryly hilarious picture of just how clunky and inefficient a machine a person really is: His head is empty and open to the rain, his eye is contaminated with a dozen pre-existing forms, and his identity, if he has one, hangs in the back, where he himself can't see it — but he can still sculpt.
She started toying around with borrowed a microphone, cymbal, and distortion pedal, attempting to make what she describes as "sheet metal noise" ("That didn't go so well," she says, dryly.) Soon after, while living with her dad in Far Rockaway—a Queens neighborhood at the far end of the A train now most famous as New York's surfer refuge—she began recording her debut EP as Pharmakon with a friend.
I settled on offering my friend the following stories: the process of making Fitzcarraldo; the nihilistic monologue he delivers in Burden of Dreams, the documentary about making Fitzcarraldo; the other nihilistic monologue he delivers over footage of a wandering penguin in the documentary Encounters at the End of the World; and the time he got shot by a sniper and commented dryly that it was not a "significant" bullet.
" Back then, becoming a "VSCO girl" basically just meant making your VSCO feed look cool; In the video, Greer tries to achieve the retro-flecked, trying-to-look-like-you're-not-trying aesthetic popular on the app — she takes photos of white sneakers next to succulents and says dryly, "I think my shoes and the plant, it just really shows who I am as a person and, I don't know, it's pretty deep.
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