"the first movie's wry sense of humor is back" What is clear is that the first movie's wry sense of humor is front and center.
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"He got me good," Mustafa said with a wry laugh.
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Are they wry, literary, surprisingly profound stories for all ages?
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Mr Rachman's book may produce a wry smile in Singapore.
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Silicon Valley is wry and raunchy, not a political screed.
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"Honestly, I hate parties," he said with a wry smile.
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"I got my wish," he said with a wry smile.
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"I never made it," he said with a wry smile.
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Their wry wisdom certainly applies to New York City voters.
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Soft drink ads tend to be either poetic or wry.
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One appeal of the production is its tone: wry, ironic.
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Mr. Chernow roasted Mr. Trump in his own wry way.
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But Callaway's wry smile did not mean he was joking.
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His look ahead to the late 2030s is gloomily wry.
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Then, with a wry smile, he added, "It's a kindergarten."
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His mask is askew, giving him a wry, rakish air.
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Moments later, Camarena has a wry smile on his face.
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But God's wry grace always comes through at the last.
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He came with a wry, if awkward, sense of humor.
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No one does wry, sonic insouciance quite like you guys.
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In each episode, Serling provided wry narration in his distinct voice.
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"Palestine exists mainly on Skype," says Khalili with a wry smile.
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Well," he stopped himself, with a wry smile, "that, and shoelaces.
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Such symbols appear in a few works but feature wry twists.
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In most of these pieces, wry wit rubs shoulders with seriousness.
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Ms Na's contribution is a wry commentary on the museum itself.
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Dafne Keen is not only adorable, but a wry little comedian.
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"That's what I've sold today," he said with a wry laugh.
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"Terrible," Mr. Trump said, a wry joking tone in his voice.
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Wearing rose-tinted sunglasses, Mr. Harward was alternately wry and emotional.
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So has Evvie, whom Ms. Ivey imbues with a wry warmth.
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But Ms. Rush's wry, subversively timed performance makes it worth watching.
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When her voice appears, it's firm, implacable, wry and nonchalant, demanding.
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I flattered myself that my bio was wry and darkly humorous.
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"Our mistake was corrected," Mr. Posokhin said with a wry laugh.
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We share an eager skepticism and a wry sense of humor.
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It felt as if a wry adult had entered the room.
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"Then there are other moments," she said, with a wry smile.
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Schine handles death, aging and infirmity with candor and wry humor.
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Eliot's own writing was just as funereal and just as wry.
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Like the expression "same old," however, it is modern and wry.
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Her attitude is wry self-deprecation laced with hints of melancholy.
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"That's when I knew," he told me with a wry smile.
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As opening night drew near, van Hove projected a wry calm.
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In interviews he frames the series as wry amusements, no more.
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She recalled the story with a wry smile, revealing gold teeth.
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After the first wry, macabre, winkingly dystopian story, I was hooked.
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It was a monologue perfectly suited to Kimmel's typical straightforward, wry delivery.
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Electricity system nerds (they exist) will read what's above with wry amusement.
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When big news broke, he would show up with a wry grin.
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Erin turned to me, a wry smile slowly spreading across her face.
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"This is a really unique defense," Brady said, with a wry grin.
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But the wry humor of it now feels ahead of its time.
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Sansa Stark sits beside Harington and throws a wry smile his way.
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However, she's not above making some wry comments about her painful past.
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"That wasn't really my thing," he told me with a wry grin.
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"Even suffering can be beautiful," he tells me with a wry smile.
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William Goldman's words were ironic and humorous and wry and very smart.
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Passmore's artwork skillfully balances the wry comedy with the escalating scary moments.
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He's prone to making wry asides as he mills about the kitchen.
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The accompanying photo showed him with bright eyes and a wry smile.
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"Throwing in my customary double bogey," McIlroy said with a wry smile.
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Burt Reynolds, the wry, self-mocking Hollywood heartthrob, is dead at 82.
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The former is a wry but still ultra-traditional collection of songs.
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Peele is married to Chelsea Peretti, the wry, sneakily blunt observational comedian.
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Images she later painted of this period reveal a wry, bitter humor.
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In person, Soros is quite charming, with a wry sense of humor.
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" Explanation: Humor, obviously — note the wry use of the redundant "totally destroy.
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And humor, when it surfaces, is often of the wry, witty variety.
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There were paunchy men who penned letters tinged with sad, wry hopefulness.
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Directed by Adrienne Truscott, Ms. Burns's delivery is crisp, wry and dry.
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Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you nightmares.
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Some of this comes from a goofy voice or a wry look.
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"Testifying before Congress was absolutely lovely," she said, with a wry grin.
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Each time, I get a similar response: a wry but friendly smile.
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John's humor was wry, and he loved to deflect any emotional baiting.
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Chris Wallace sounded a little bit wistful, and a little bit wry.
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"If you are into truffles," says Marion Dean with a wry smile.
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And we're going to be a bit wry and a bit detached.
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His own wry persona never overshadows the voices of past and present inhabitants.
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And on his face, a wry expression with nuances filled in by CGI.
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But each poem is written with her signature wry humor and caustic honesty.
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That cracked the ice for the rest of his wry, self-deprecating routine.
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But," Brie said with a wry smile, "it was not written before sexism.
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Reichardt's movie merely offers a wry wink, delivering a ground-level satire on
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"I don't know, I'll probably do some (stuff)," Anisimov said with wry grin.
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And even Draco manages a wry joke on the popularity of farmers' markets.
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His wry sense of humor was more readily apparent, as was his optimism.
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Yet the combination of wry observations and personal reflections makes "Time Song" gripping.
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"I'm still losing and I'm still waiting," she added with a wry smile.
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Mr. Keillor was struck by the musicians' rapport, by Minnie Pearl's wry humor.
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A lip curls, a nose wrinkles — as if they were hairy, wry elves.
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"Things fell into place," the Irish pro, 103, recalled with a wry smile.
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Ms. Le Guin's fictions range from young-adult adventures to wry philosophical fables.
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And she brings a wry, analytical skepticism even to matters of the heart.
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He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences.
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Rather, he won audiences over with wry observations about the country's racial chasm.
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"This is a strange story," says Keith Morrison in his unmistakably wry baritone.
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" Another responded with a wry smile: "So is this like a ship thing?
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You thought all those wry, edgy captions accompanying her staged photographs wrote themselves?
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Harris turned a wry smile and corrected herself: "I'm losing track," she said.
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No wonder — Kumararaja's work is stylish and wry, with an indie-cinephile sensibility.
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It's a fascinating piece that shows her wry, blunt views on climate inaction.
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So Mr Modi, quipped one wry tweet, has in effect demonetised elite opinion, too.
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Its dry, wry minimalism will be familiar to devotees of the Romanian New Wave.
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Lucy Dacus makes wry, confessional, confrontational indie rock in the mode of Liz Phair.
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"We are doing marketing on the commercial bikes," Foley explains with a wry grin.
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Of course, wry comedy at the expense of thirsty reporters only goes so far.
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"In Kenya, you are guilty until proven rich," he said with a wry smile.
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Four or five pages of Laz's enigmatic and wry instructions are also handed out.
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It may be that Sara was in some ways Ms. Collins's wry self-portrait.
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But in its own wry and timely way, Ms. Buchanan's work is profoundly uplifting.
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This latest collection of micro-fictions is a treasure trove of tiny wry masterpieces.
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There are also pages of wry proverbs, and euphemisms, and excerpts from arresting poetry.
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A little look or a wry laugh is enough to tell people his mind.
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Like Ms. Merkel, she is a moderate centrist with a wry sense of humor.
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A wry smile fanned across his face — both rows of teeth, steady eye contact.
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"It's like the American flag," said Fognini, a wry smile creeping across his face.
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Ramabai wrote wry, thoughtful accounts of her travels that were well received in India.
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"Ah yes, Qaddafi," she said with a wry smile, recalling the deposed Libyan strongman.
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In a wry poem of direct counsel, Ha Jin dismisses obligatory mingling and networking.
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Here, in a further wry twist, Toibin deflates another grandstand moment of Greek tragedy.
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It would be a pleasure to just look at his wry, preternaturally alert face.
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Their songs hold chromatic twists and wry wordplay, packed into smiley three-minute bundles.
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The column drew some wry responses from fathers, which we decided to highlight here.
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Readers devoured Baker articles peppered with wry observations that captured the feel of Washington.
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Then, with a wry smile, he added that he wasn't really looking for suggestions.
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The documentary's trailer shows Fisher in typical form, wry in her dealings with mega-fame.
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Tully's strength lies in Cody's signature harmony between acerbic, wry humor, and stark, naked emotion.
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Yet, Fitz still says, "I like doing things myself," without a hint of wry irony.
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There's Blanchett's wry right-hand woman, shaking her head with impressed amusement at Debbie's determination.
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Somewhere, I thought, his sardonic and intensely wry sense of humor must have remained intact.
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Ebony-drenched misanthrope with a wry sense of humor and a nuanced concept of Satan.
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Dawn is chewing her lip with a knowing look, a wry expression on her face.
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The loss of faith, the exhaustion of everything, the loss, the gain, the wry agony.
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"Mohib Ullah is a virus of the community," he read aloud, with a wry chuckle.
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"High Maintenance," the intoxicatingly wry web series about a pot dealer, is upgraded by HBO.
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Janu, who is wry and bracingly frank, had vowed never to date a police officer.
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"One curator said that I'm my own worst enemy," she said with a wry smile.
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Sarah Adina Smith's austere, wry style captures a more dynamic Rami Malek than Mr. Robot.
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His cool, understated style, buttressed by a self-effacing, wry humor, make him extremely likeable.
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She has a soft voice, a wry sense of humor, and a warm, gentle manner.
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As Strike investigates, he's drawn into class politics, which Galbraith handles with a wry wit.
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In Bennett's work, this creativity is anchored by a feminist sensibility laced with wry humor.
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MasterVoices has followed this advice, with Amy Irving as a sympathetic, occasionally wry Dr. Brooks.
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"It's very complicated," Mr. Min said with a wry smile, speaking of the peace process.
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Not all of Kool A.D.'s wry sendups of hip-hop chauvinism land just right.
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Similarly, I might not be as interested in food movies as usual (insert wry grin).
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Still, it's not exactly punishment to see Fey and Slattery share their wry camaraderie onscreen.
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Mr. Stiefel, who cultivates a wry, even dandyish attitude, occasionally fiddled with his handlebar mustache.
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As Elsa, she barely smiles, except in wry amusement at everything that Jojo doesn't know.
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At times, he even seemed to be enjoying himself, sprinkling his remarks with wry jokes.
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But asking him about his career plans brings a Gavin-like answer — wry and pointed.
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"They would ski together, play together, chase girls together," Stuart recalled with a wry grin.
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If it happens it will be glorious, tragic and (hopefully) delivered with a wry smile.
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Peter Kafka: I'm here with Dan Roth, who's also a funny guy, a wry guy.
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A typically wry press release put out by the TST heaped praise on the governor.
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Oh at some point you see this wry little smile … No, I think he believes it.
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But then he was all smiles and wry commentary on the passers-by and the police.
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I will miss our occasional conversations which were full of sweet stories and his wry observations.
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"In 28 years, I've seen it a couple of times," he said with a wry laugh.
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Where many Twitter accounts reek of earnestness, Crenshaw discussed issues with a wry sense of humor.
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His voice is detached and wry, not unlike a character from a story by Samuel Beckett.
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Sensualmemes approaches the medium with a wry self-awareness, a charactersitc embraced by the art world.
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Misty brings energy to every scene she's in with her mix of wry humor and bravado.
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Beside him is Tryggve Tellefsen, a watchful man with a wry smile and a check shirt.
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If not for the episode's wry tone, "Playtest" might have felt stale upon introducing its concept.
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"It was two of us against one, so..." Mousasi started before breaking into a wry laugh.
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She has a thick accent, a wry sense of humor, and a hurried manner of speech.
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The way he bends the strings captures a wry leer as he pursues the elusive Carol.
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Most know Lena Headey as the wry, goal-oriented queen from Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister.
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"Almost rings the bell," of course, is Phil's attempt at crafting a wry piece of shade.
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The writing is alternately wry and outlandish, delivering jokes and sight gags at a rapid clip.
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"Fortunately, those genes were not passed down," said Calder, a wry smile curling on his lip.
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She worked closely with Sebald to capture his sad wry tone and dense allusiveness in English.
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"Burghers may smoke, once in a while," the author adds in a typically wry, enlivening aside.
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"Yeah, it's pretty funny about Kate," Ms. Bechdel said in a wry email about the casting.
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After Moreno-Ocampo asked a particularly ill phrased question, a wry smirk overtook the defendant's face.
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Lozman cracks a wry smile and turns to an insurance claim adjuster overseeing the salvage job.
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The latter's wry 2017 canvas, "Untitled," showing a headless figure holding a paddle, sold for €173,000.
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Courageous and unsettling, LeFavour's memoir is infused with humor and wry insight as well as pain.
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"We started off a little slow, obviously," head coach Andy Reid said with a wry smile.
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He presses the issue, wryly, or, rather, in a tone that he believes to be wry.
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"Those dogs made quite a good profit out of me," she said with a wry smile.
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"This is exactly what we need more of in American feminism: wry humor," Ms. Brown said.
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He could be caustic and wry in equal measure, especially in exchanges with his American counterparts.
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Her comedic timing is impeccable, and she delivers lines with a wry humor beyond her years.
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"Just keep it till next time, because it's coming," Ms. Williams said with a wry laugh.
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It has a pop score goosed with blues and indie rock, endearingly quirky characters, wry lyrics.
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The Barbers are funny and wry and caring and full of deep, inexpressible love and contempt.
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This is a book that's trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent.
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"When It's You," with its wry Everywoman of a narrator, is more drawn to the commonplace.
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Ms. Barber, a former Glinda, is amusingly witchy, Ms. Patterson zingy, Ms. Simms a wry gift.
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"He was handsome, sweet, engaging and had a very wry sense of humor," Ms. Bentz said.
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It adds both a humanity and a note of wry humor that collapses any perceived pretension.
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"So my grandfather was always a big fan of Socialism," he said with a wry laugh.
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Instead of lamenting that art cannot offer transcendence or sanctuary, Tevet celebrates it with wry humor.
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Erik, played with a poker face by Mr. Lichtscheidl, offers a wry monologue about losing his watch.
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Wry, dystopian undercurrents lurk in the various textures, patterns, and forms all waiting to be teased out.
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"Sultan" works because director Ali Abbas Zafar injects enough wry humour into the proceedings and eschews melodrama.
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"The buildings are great," Zhang Junkai, a port worker who lives nearby, says with a wry smile.
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The first is its wry, deft visual callbacks to older styles of animation, mainly from the 1960s.
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Although never less than evenhanded, and sometimes deliciously wry, Jennings writes with obvious affection for his subjects.
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As you've noticed, I have a wry and intelligent humor, but aren't afraid to laugh at self.
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"I'd love to get you to build a wall," he told Mr. Trump with a wry grin.
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Despite all of her notoriety, Bertita never changed, she was still sweet, wry and tenacious as ever.
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Hammons's wry observations are literally written on the walls, speaking in code to anyone willing to listen.
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For another, Killing Eve's Phoebe Waller-Bridge is reportedly bringing her wry humor to the Bond franchise.
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"People didn't want to be around me because of my mouth," he says with a wry grin.
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And as his son, Ato Blankson-Wood gives a breakout performance of wry wit and musical intensity.
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"It doesn't bother me, people ask me about it even today," he said with a wry chuckle.
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Looking into the camera with a wry smile, Witherspoon reveals it's Honey Baked Ham on the line.
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But these wry liberals, smoking beneath the bleachers, unwittingly started a fire that engulfed the entire movement.
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One hears so many rhapsodic accounts of this walk that Bissell's wry impiety is refreshing — and promising.
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"Umm, maybe," Spicer replies, with a wry smile, as his eyes dart back to the press pool.
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In Euphoria, HBO's bleeding-edge teen drama, Zendaya's character, Rue, gives a wry lecture on the practice.
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The brass sculptures in the 14th Street station at Eighth Avenue delighted me with their wry humor.
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She has a wry sense of humor, and her modesty belies the magnitude of her scientific achievements.
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Sarah and Karl's boss was Harry, a wry man who had an emotional affair with his secretary.
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Michael Bolton has re-entered the zeitgeist over the last decade for his wry, unblinking self-parody.
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Green trees stood with wry and decidedly treelike composure at the bases of skyscrapers several feet tall.
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HAMBURG, Germany — She is a moderate centrist with a humble leadership style and wry sense of humor.
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Stream the third season of this wry FX comedy series about a rodeo business in Bakersfield, Calif.
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The voice is wholly his own — dissonant, offbeat, whiplash, wry — even as it whispers to musics past.
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He stared down at the carpet and fussed with his shirt cuffs, wearing a wry, mocking grin.
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Showalter's wry sense of humor (and Howe's own comic verse) thankfully brightens the darkness of intractable incompatibility.
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Jughead (Cole Sprouse), the wry, burger-munching sidekick of the comics, is now a dour, emo narrator.
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The Indians sent out a wry Twitter message tweaking those who claimed the Patriots' plane was unprecedented.
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The Carroll Gardens space is infused with Barrett's wry sense of humor, equal parts punk and patriotic.
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" And he brings a convincing physical presence and some wry humanity and emotional depth to "The Witcher.
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Someone with a wry sense of humor might have swapped Morris for a photo of John Glenn.
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But when she does talk about herself, she can be very funny in a wry, understated way.
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It's joined at this show by the all-female Brooklyn band Thick, which plays spiky, wry punk.
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When he reminds you he has no time for bullshit, he does it with a wry grin.
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There is something incredibly smart, wry, assured, tender, and provocative about this work, which is beautifully painted.
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Zago's wry, simple graphics are inspired by the "great Italian cartoons" he grew up watching and emulating.
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But then once Aku resurfaces, you go back to the wry visual gags that have always surrounded him.
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A wry 1982 documentary on this period, The Atomic Cafe, just had its run extended at Film Forum.
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He's just got this incredibly dry and wry sense of humor, and he doesn't take himself too seriously.
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Add to that some insistent beats and a wry sense of humor, and you get pretty memorable music.
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Now, her communication with the public consists of press releases and wry smiles given over the duchess pose.
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Tim Cook's is particularly good at capturing the wry smile he makes when dodging questions in an interview.
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"College kid living by himself, going back to living with his parents," he said with a wry smile.
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Pugh is simply transcendent in a dramatic role that is full of wonderfully dark humor and wry manipulation.
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He talks about his time in the orphanage with wry amusement, crediting the experience with shaping his stubbornness.
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What she's expected to bring: spontaneity, a wry humor and a willingness to inject herself into unfamiliar situations.
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Affection for my wry, sweet-tempered father, meanwhile, left me immune to much of J.F.K.'s chivalric glamour.
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"Bus" offered wry commentary on how photography and other man-made images play with our perceptions of reality.
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"For that, she was tortured, shamed, killed, of course," the narrator's mother tells her with a wry smile.
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The stylish, stylized paintings in "Desert Wind" are wry, lush and pleasurable in their beauty and their brains.
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In Prospect Park, she appears alongside the punk shape-shifter Ted Leo and the wry songwriter Caroline Rose.
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If I hadn't had a smartphone, I would have simply observed this, making a wry joke to myself.
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Nowhere is this more blindingly obvious than on their wry tearjerker of a Christmas song "Christmas is Cancelled".
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It's also the ideal platform for exposing wry perspectives on one's working life and fighting back against misconceptions.
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If you're looking for a grid with a good blend of wry and straight, you will surely agree.
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Best is Sarah Beckham-Turner, wry even in desperation as Harper, her voice cool yet vibrating with vulnerability.
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It's left to Gotay to hold things together, which he does with a beautifully sung, consistently wry performance.
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Wry and swaggering, he's the only one having any fun here, which pushes the audience to Frank's side.
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Joshua Harmon's wry and aching play about a gay man navigating a slowing social whirl arrives on Broadway.
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"He lost the presidential race, so I think he lost relatively recently," he said with a wry smile.
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"Not knowing the V.P. picks, when they came out, that was tough," Gabe said with a wry laugh.
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"It would be better if we controlled the government," said Democratic strategist Tad Devine with a wry laugh.
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" Her mother's wry verdict on her father: "He was a ray o' sun, but the sun goes down.
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The mod amounts to a wry nod toward the ongoing conversation in the gaming world around post-release monetization.
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When I asked several different designers about the Netflix skip button, reactions ranged from wry amusement to open disgust.
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Wry, skeptical and possessed of a dancer's grace, Mr. Dobson brings hilarity to a play that badly needs it.
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Her short stories depict worlds defined by familiar gender dynamics, shot through with dark themes and, often, wry humor.
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It is also incredibly smart, amusing, and written in that slightly wry female voice I found myself drawn to.
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"In Syria, I had two restaurants!" he observes, with a wry chuckle, sweeping an eye over his colorful setup.
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No explosions or bangs follow, just a wry smile and gentle chiding from UNHCR first aid coordinator Marc Desvilliers.
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Adam West, the actor famous for his wry, dramatic portrayal of Batman, died Friday of complications related to leukemia.
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In a wry tone, she added, "certainly never thought I'd write that" but added that she meant every word.
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Brilliant in its own way, the novel is full of beautiful writing, wry humor, and philosophical meditations on life.
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Maya Dimeo (a fantastically wry Minnie Driver) is the hell-on-wheels matriarch who insists on getting her way.
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Fans are characteristically open and welcoming, reflecting on the vagaries of supporting Fulham with exasperated laughter and wry smiles.
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The Queen had a wry, skeptical eye on the world but once you got her laughing you were in.
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Amy Schumer's imperious delivery of Gable's line will get laughs, but so too will Cate Blanchett's wry self-deprecation.
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He's just the same as I remember him: round, with a wry smile and a caustic sense of humor.
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I imagine him with the same wry, penetrating, cowboy gaze, the eyes that tell you he's seen it all.
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Those who have known him describe him as determinedly loyal and with a wry often understated sense of humor.
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" In this case, she had a wry reply: "I could send you some pamphlets that might help you understand.
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"The people in the room thought he was the best thing," Shaub said of Puddicombe's soothing, sometimes wry voice.
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Between songs, Ms. Arocena was an endearing storyteller, explaining some of her songs with earnest sincerity and wry twists.
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Over the course of a dozen short films, Hertzfeldt's wry absurdism and honesty has earned him a cult following.
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Mr. Ratmansky, soft-spoken and somewhat reticent, spoke in English; Mr. Desyatnikov, wry and quick to laugh, in Russian.
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It explores similar issues of sexuality, art and friendship with a similar tone of gentle humor and wry retrospect.
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Clinton's tweet was different from many of Obama's wry and irreverent communications, though: It was directed at her opponent.
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"Well, for a historian, it's always tricky to define ahead what is historic," he said, with a wry smile.
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You can be a bit of a trickster, with a wry sense of humor and a love of puns.
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Accompanied by the musician Jeb Colwell, he does this through physical comedy, oddball props, wry commentary and tap-dancing.
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Buffon, a three-time loser in the final, accepted each hug with a wry smile and a knowing shrug.
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"The narrative is trenchant and intelligent; wry but not glib; humane but never indulgent," our critic Jennifer Szalai writes.
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As read by George Guidall and Sally Darling, they are wry and well-meaning and hopeless and entirely alive.
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"She has a positive point of view that is certainly antithetical to me," he says with a wry grimace.
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Her tart, wry comics generally make their point in a few pages, then vanish like an uncomfortable party guest.
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His tone was one of embattlement and occasional grievance, and his remarks were punctuated by wry and rueful humor.
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Mr. Florido's reaction injects some rueful humor, but this "La Ronde" doesn't have much of Schnitzler's wry Mitteleuropa fatalism.
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In Mr. Barbagallo's hands, Nut is instantly winning, with a warm, wry humor that cushions the more painful moments.
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Miller has avoided making enemies inside the White House, where his colleagues often tout his wry sense of humor.
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The label also drew a wry collective sniff from Britons for whom the term "muppet" is a mild insult.
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She was also funny and wry and with it — I thought she would be with us another 10 years.
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Known to be cranky but easily amused, Mr. Carroll would often pepper his reporting with wry and iconoclastic asides.
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Even through the layers of distortion and stylization, the aunt's intolerant personality can be felt through Solano's wry humor.
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Lesley Rausch (replacing Laura Tisserand) was wry, hard, unpredictable as the Siren: lacking the role's cold sexiness, but always suspenseful.
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From the scratchy, wry tone of his voice, we know immediately the identity of June's new commander: It's Commander Lawrence.
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"I'm going to dust off my CV and see what job I can find," he said with a wry smile.
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It sets the tone for this wry, candid novel — which has been aptly described as a "black Bridget Jones" — perfectly.
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Her jokes are wry and plentiful, and she allows for glimpses of future happiness to shine through in the dark.
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She became a camp icon for ridiculing the limited roles of women during her time with wry, self-deprecating humor.
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Moreover — as many cops have noted with appreciation — he is funny, a witty, wry observer of the world around him.
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Miranda has an acute, wry eye, and the script's parallels with current political struggles are both frighteningly apt and funny.
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Nye told the audience, with a wry scoff, that it will take a "fact-based" approach to informing its audience.
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Pence defused the antagonism with the wry smile of a genial old man humoring a simpleton -- and won most rounds.
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Allies say Najib is a mild-mannered gentleman with a wry sense of humor who loves golf and his cats.
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Instead, its first section is full of grimly wry near-future speculation, starting with a massive, weaponized fake news event.
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That prompted a wry smile from Democrat Pelosi, who was sitting behind Trump and next to Vice President Mike Pence.
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We look up at a middle-aged man in a suit, wide-shouldered, charismatic, a wry look on his face.
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"I grew up listening to emo music one hundred percent," Lauren says, with a slightly wry look on his face.
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"Even in China, women can be fighter pilots," she explains through her translator, a wry smile flickering across downturned lips.
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"Feehery added with a wry laugh, "If I were elected president, I maybe wouldn't have picked some of these people.
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She was attracted to their wry humor, but also how they overcame hardship, she says while citing Coal Miner's Daughter.
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In one last stroke of wry poetic justice from this beloved outlaw and working man's poet, today was his birthday.
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CTRL is a jolt of fresh air packed with wry observations and searing takedowns of romance in the modern age.
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The prose is a model of the American stoical, with a very special note of wry mockery buried within it.
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Mr. Lutz has organized a wry group show, "Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong," knitting it with strands of self-doubt.
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It was a vantage point where he could make wry, quintessentially Letterman-esque remarks about the bustling realm beneath him.
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For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control—political, gendered, sectarian, communal—"Milkman" can be charmingly wry.
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It wasn't sexy the way she said it; no wry smile or soft coo came with the words, just frustration.
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"The Disneyland of animism," in Siri's wry opinion of the place, is easily the highlight of this mind-bending book.
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Nunes allows her fists (and other limbs) to do the majority of the talking, but she's also wry and funny.
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As I'm ushered into her office at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, she greets me with a wry English joke.
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Unlike most travel shows, this is wry rather than earnest, and it doesn't have any of that gee-whiz enthusiasm.
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Mr. Meier's porcelain casts of takeout food containers use an ancient art form to offer wry commentary about consumer consumption.
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She is as frank as her daughter, and wry (of watching Lee's plays, she says, "I didn't understand a thing").
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She was a careful, prepared speaker with a bookish quality, a wry sense of humor and a tendency toward efficiency.
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There's more to the feature's meandering plot, and it's worth watching for the surprise factor, wry dialogue and provocative scenes.
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"There may be some wry humor in the phrase 'the river is a fire hazard'," Mr. Stokes told the reporters.
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"I am told that I am brave," she says, pointing at the audience, a small, wry smile on her face.
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But first she must wait for the police, led by the wry Detective Erica Coleman, to uncover the driver's identity.
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The song serves as a wry critique on gentrification and modern attempts to use wealth to overcome one's perceived blackness.
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Mr. Porter ("Kinky Boots") makes Pray Tell a wry guide to both the balls and the larger community around them.
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Although it is a comic book, the writing carries Jemisin's wry tone, interest in power, and unapologetic use of allegory.
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Having grown up in England, the wry British comedian Romesh Ranganathan has few ties to his parents' native Sri Lanka.
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The bodies pile up, as do the wry asides about what is and what is not good for the country.
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He approaches this most disliked specialty of the dismal science of economics with a wry voice and a light touch.
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He showed me a picture of my grandfather I had never seen, looking wry and ironic sitting on a donkey.
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As with Mehta, Just's prodding was subtle, his smile contained sorrows, his wisdom was hard-earned, his constant humor wry.
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Isn't this banana just a banana, and not a wry commentary on male sexuality, genetic monocultures, or Central American geopolitics?
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Mr. Prine is the wry elder statesman, Mr. Isbell the brooding young striver, and Ms. Musgraves the chipper, progressive torchbearer.
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In telling his truth and not worrying too much about whether it was "universal," Stew fashioned a wry, regretful bildungsroman.
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His gaze was mature and alert, but a wry smile often flickered near the corners of his mouth: something awaited.
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Writing with the assurance and wry omniscience of an easygoing deity, Makumbi watches her protagonists live out invariably provisional answers.
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It's not just the dangers or discomforts that so distinguish this book, but the tone — its originality and wry grandiloquence.
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His upheaval is funny and self-consciously melodramatic, with wry humor and tenderness just below the surface of dissonant darkness.
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If you think that I'm cocking a wry snook in the direction of Suffolk's most famous son, you'd be wrong.
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The response: a long pause as the engineers in the room looked at each other with wry grins on their faces.
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Characters such as chief surgeon Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) dished out wry humor as they dealt with the stress of wartime.
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Maybe this is all campy, wry commentary on the rockism and the mythologizing of popular music and young(ish) men's libido.
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But it's Fisher's wry, scene-stealing delivery in every one of her scenes that cemented the character as a cultural touchstone.
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Like all his films, Love & Friendship is a comedy of manners, heavy on mannerisms, packed with wry chatter and social observation.
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High Maintenance is sort of like if Doctor Who was a wry comedy about a weed dealer — stay with me here.
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The record continues Block's penchant for slinking grooves coupled with esoteric samples and wry song titles (see the loopy "Festival Paramedics").
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It had six buildings set around an oval street, which was named, in a wry bit of geek humor, Infinite Loop.
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Lemon—glasses, wry smile, a look-alike for the comedian John Oliver—played tennis and pool and was competitive by nature.
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The result, in 1962, was "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)," a wry, somewhat cynical ditty sung by Mr. Dorough.
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Mr. Dylan's warm and wry performance captures the mix of wit and sincerity favored by songs from the American standards era.
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In a press release, Kia shared that it's well aware of the "wry sense of [humor]" that went into the design.
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True to form, Ramsay remained wry and arrogant up until the moment one of his "loyal beasts" tore into his face.
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This song, wry and wistful, makes it clear that he's still writing from a place of barbed interiority and confessional misdirection.
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In Days of Heaven, Linda Mantz's wry, streetwise commentary proves her uneducated Chicagoan teenager more mature than the adults around her.
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Craddick is slight and white-haired, wry and friendly, with a slur in his speech and a shuffle in his step.
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Over the years, Gawker Media espoused a gossipy, wry tone that often made much of the traditional media seem old-fashioned.
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Scorsese plays ball: four of the talking heads in the doc are believably wry or wistful, but their accounts are fabricated.
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A luminous color field by Mark Rothko can't survive such a setting, nor a wry little checkerboard canvas by Sherrie Levine.
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This blesses you with a serious demeanor that helps you make very funny, wry jokes—at least you'll think you're funny.
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Michael, who speaks in the conversational idioms of Ruth's generation, is just as wry, self-conscious and understated as she is.
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Barnett's narrative sensibility is wry, but, unlike so many of her indie-rock forebears, she isn't out to antagonize her listeners.
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And it was Thicke who made Growing Pains tick, serving as the show's wry goofball, voice of reason, and steady presence.
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The new show is being pitched as a more traditional thriller, replacing wry humor with white-knuckle chases and narrow escapes.
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Her films, like Waters's, though with a wry delicacy that couldn't be more different than his approach, speak a secret language.
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Irn Bru is seen as quintessentially Scottish and associated with strength, but also with awkwardness and a wry sense of humor.
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While his lyrics conveyed a childlike view of the world in many aspects, in interviews, he was wry and self-aware.
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On stage he's an absolute menace, charging around in a burgundy tracksuit with a wry, delinquent sauce that is genuinely arresting.
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The tone — wry, worldly, aphoristic — owes much to Alain de Botton and Adam Phillips's amused laments on coupling and its discontents.
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" ("BoJack Horseman" is a wry adult cartoon about a self-loathing humanoid horse.) "I've asked her, 'Do I look nice today?
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Ms. McKenna, a veteran, is wry, seen-it-all unimpressed, unerringly wise; Ms. Freeman, far younger, is well on her way.
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As anyone who's been reading the newspapers knows, it's not all wry jokes about overburdened latrines and rah-rah good cheer.
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Atwood's wry and rueful tales bridge the gap between your usual reading habits and your new interest in the natural world.
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There's a wry poetic justice in the spectacle of a writer, that scavenger of others' lives, helplessly furnishing material for another.
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On its face, this book is a wry, dark multigenerational tale about the Israeli and American branches of an extended family.
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Its first destination, the neighbouring island of Westray (WRY), is all of 203km away—a distance shorter than Heathrow airport's runways.
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I took Ginia Bellafante's pudding reference as the wry commentary of a columnist — a category of journalist that enjoys more leeway.
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Almost overnight, he transformed himself from a wry observational comic to one who felt his material had to have higher stakes.
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Mr. Del Aguila, who has given the lyrics his own imaginative flourishes, has preserved the novel's wry parody of Charles Dickens.
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Mr. Del Aguila, who has given the lyrics his own imaginative flourishes, has preserved the novel's wry parody of Charles Dickens.
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Soon into our conversation, I can see what she means: Brabner doesn't smile much, but she has wry sense of humor.
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From Madeline, Jane, Celeste, Renata, and Bonnie, there are no pithy lines, no schadenfreude, no wry observations dropped in sneering triumph.
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Besides," he adds with a wry smile, "You don't meet a nice girl at the club: Go to the goddamn library!
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After 20 years, Streep was finally awarded her fourth Golden Globe, in 2003, for her supporting work in the wry comedy Adaptation.
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It's always good when a performance of King Lear gets to be wry and knowing, even as its characters are falling apart.
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Day of the Dead (1985) is a wry look at the industrial-military complex and its willingness to gamble with people's lives.
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"Last Dance" was wry and surprising and a little bit smarter than everything else on the air—kind of like Petty himself.
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But Levy and Reid are also just so good together, making Patrick's wry refusal to take bullshit complement David's anxious snobbery perfectly.
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It's a wry, self-aware take on the frustrations of feeling young and trapped, and the frustrations of addiction at any age.
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There's a wry smile, a kind of "dirtbag left" sensibility, and a delivery that Kurvitz characterizes as a kind of hollow laughter.
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Just as Moore himself was a wry commentator on Hollywood throughout his life, his Bond became a commentator on his own trajectory.
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Watch enough Ryan Murphy shows, and you know what you'll encounter: Sarah Paulson's wry smile, Evan Peters' sulk, Jessica Lange's side-eye.
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But where Saulnier's films are largely grim, only veering into humor in wry, dark moments, Blair's debut has an openly comic side.
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His "golden voice", a wry joke (for yes, he often joked, when he could raise his brooding eyes out of his despair).
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That was her typically wry, self-deprecating way of talking about signing autographs and taking pictures with fans at Star Wars conventions.
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Markus Sigur Bjornsson is wiry and wry, dressed in streetwear, while Thorsteinn Eyfjord is taller, neck-scarved and more formal in manner.
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Known as China's first video artist, Peili excels in his wry responses to Chinese state media, produced as both propaganda and entertainment.
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She'll sometimes speak in clipped sentences, her wisdom packed into short bursts and punctuated with an infectious smile or a wry laugh.
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She's dressed head-to-toe in black, just as she always is, and seems severe until she breaks into a wry smile.
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His show, A Prairie Home Companion, launched in 1974 and ran Saturday evenings, distinguished for its wry humor and popular musical guests.
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The warm production and mid-career Van Morrison/Bob Dylan arrangements give Friedberger room to be wry then weepy, piercing then elusive.
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For the past couple of years, he's been in an off-kilter haze — a wry, happily narcotized comedian à la Steven Wright.
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The wry but accurate statement of Anthony Foxx, the federal transportation secretary, that this level of neglect is "almost criminal" speaks volumes.
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This weekend children can explore that show, "Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs," for some wry city humor to apply to their own designs.
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"I was pretty confident about where I was born," Mr. Obama said from the White House, a wry smile crossing his face.
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The only person she doesn't look down on, it seems, is her best friend, Amy, played with wry sensitivity by Kaitlyn Dever.
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Some might also note with a wry smile that the first working day of this new world will be April Fool's Day.
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When Rachel says, "You need to get over me," it's both a wry joke about tragic romances, and an actual tragic romance.
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" The "singing guitar" that he'd tried to sell for parts and glory on "1996" is now a wry, intentionally overwrought "sorrowful heart.
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The righteous, wry refrain of a long-suffering employee, rolling his eyes at the incompetent desk jockey higher up the food chain.
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At once flirtatious and discreet, the chair provides not only lush comfort, but a wry commentary on the excesses of the past.
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The stories' subjects — an eerie "mirror Facebook"; a promotional pitch for a skin care product — unfold with a deliciously wry feminist slant.
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What initially reads like a wry, sharply pointed, if familiar, comedy of egocentric sophisticates gains depth and emotional magnitude as it goes.
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The band's opener at this show is another sharp woman-fronted group, the wry, potent and efficient pop-punk duo Diet Cig.
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" For people trying to navigate their own wry cynicism and emotional upheaval during a turbulent sociopolitical moment, the external trigger keeping "Mr.
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When I arrive at the barn, which is tucked into the hills of Griffith Park, Hanawalt introduces her with a wry intensity.
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"No, it's our fine china," Hollie Williams, of Memphis, said with a wry smile as she waited near the practice putting green.
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"There are a number of things I probably would have done differently," Mr. Wray said with a wry smile and raised eyebrow.
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Each time, a wry smile appeared on his face as he pulled the trigger, suggesting that he wasn't surprised by his accuracy.
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In her brash Texas drawl, Jo Harvey laughed about their many near-divorces as Terry observed her gesticulations with a wry smile.
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Nora Burns's wry, dry and feisty one-woman show about her disco-era friendship with a charismatic young man closes this weekend.
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"I always preferred to say I lived in Battersea because it had far more street cred," Hambling confesses with a wry smile.
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"Not easy," said the priest, Youhanna Saad, with a wry smile as he bounced his 3003-year-old daughter on his knee.
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The main supporting characters are Satan and Death, with whom Jacob converses quite casually, and who offer wry commentary on his life.
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I don&apost get any comments except for "Aren&apost you f---ing cold?" and a wry "Cute shoes and socks."Thursday
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Callahan has always been quick with a joke in his songs—a wry aside, a sardonic observation, a perfectly self-skewering stanza.
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Monogamy and its discontents take the stage in the latest from the wry and lyrical playwright Sarah Ruhl, directed by Rebecca Taichman.
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But for all the dark clouds coasting overhead, Attenberg, with her wry sense of humor, manages to entertain and move us nonetheless.
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After 20 years, Streep was finally awarded her fourth Golden Globe in 2003 for her supporting work in the wry comedy Adaptation.
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This fictionalized (and unflaggingly unflattering) account of Walt Disney's life and career is adapted from a wry novel by Peter Stephan Jungk.
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Welty's writing, wry and linguistically zany, was the only version of "South" I knew, and it made me eager to go there.
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There's something zany about this, imagining the technologically savvy scientists, wry and knowing, finding their answers sent up by a higher being.
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"Everybody told me I couldn't do this, because I'm kind of a hot-headed person," confides Jay Fai with a wry smile.
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The quote is seen spelled in sparkly letters, in cute handwriting with puff paint, and some of the artwork features Kapoor's wry smile.
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Keeping Dosanjh company is Vijay Raaz, who plays the wry coach of the national team and has the best lines in the film.
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She noticed the quizzical look on my face as I watched Long flex with his entourage and approached me with a wry smile.
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She might be irascibly cranky, or charmingly ebullient, or wry, or witty, or paralytically shy, or prone to making dirty jokes at dinner.
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It is in fact consistently sincere, if laced with wry humor, fully in keeping with the rest of writer-director Taika Waititi's filmography.
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The work has a wry sense of humor, winking to the illusions of wood grain and chain link fencing on the clinging spandex.
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But it straddles the line between its tension and its comedy, softening its more sober moments with a wry joke or vice versa.
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Mr. Irwin has a delicate, wry touch that is a nice match for the brutish anger of Mr. Shiner, a more Dionysian figure.
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This wry, under-the-radar commentary feels prescient now, as if Craig was predicting the decade of controversy over Elba that would follow.
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Still, by comparison with the heavy-handed hero-on-hero face-off in Batman v Superman, Civil War maintains a wry, light voice.
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That's bleak, but the magic of Blackstar is its balance of these dense musings on mortality with cooling levity and wry literary allusion.
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Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping kicked off a keynote speech this morning at the world's biggest mobile industry tradeshow with a wry joke.
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The film is framed by an interview: Jackie (Portman) sits down a week after the assassination with a wry, cutting reporter (Billy Crudup).
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His delightfully wry humour seems to coax Sinha into displaying some comic timing that is otherwise missing from the rest of her performance.
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But it starts a comic tone that continues in Mr. Geary's broad Cloten and Mr. Cochrane's more human Belarius, pleasantly receptive and wry.
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The label is now part of Universal Music Group Nashville, whose chairman is Mike Dungan, a wry and garrulous music veteran from Cincinnati.
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John Dingell, a Democrat with a famously wry Twitter account, offered one of the first of many puzzled reviews of the earlier design.
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Since we can't really decide who is speaking, we also feel the presence of an implied third speaker—the author, ambiguous, watchful, wry.
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But when asked if they had the votes to pass the bill, McHenry paused, gave a wry grin, turned around a walked away.
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The Vermont senator held back a wry smile as he offered a measured rebuke of Chelsea, who is nearly 40 years his junior.
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Zambra's wry humor gives buoyancy to even the most disturbing story, narrated by the son of Manuel Contreras, who oversaw Pinochet's secret police.
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His new book, with the wry title Real Food, is a gut-busting celebration of everything your mother would never let you eat.
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With a pleasantly thick Colombian accent, form-fitting navy suit, golden tan, wry smile and calm demeanor, Mesa is the epitome of charm.
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But Ms. Cassidy brings a wry edge of subliminal satire to the proceedings, while Ms. Sithole is appropriately angry as the maverick within.
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Full of wry humor and sharp observations, Sympathy explores the ways we struggle to fully understand an experience that is not our own.
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Valuations are, of course, fluctuating, but you can imagine that Didi will crack a wry smile at the milestone at the very least.
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A thirty-eight year old cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, Stark is a wry and, at times, rambunctious guide through the Age of Images.
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It's all burned down to VHS quality, the colors are all neon-pastel, a Mentos pallette, and it's all very retro and wry.
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Several people who know him say he is intensely focused on his mission while maintaining a wry sense of humor and ironic detachment.
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Bill Murray is, if not the official host, then the master of ceremonies, as wry and craggy as you'd want him to be.
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It's a pluralistic tendency that's summed up in Cosmic Latte, a wry manifesto co-written by Jürgen Mayer and architectural historian Philip Ursprung.
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Plainly dressed and usually off to the side, seated with the musicians, he isn't trying to upstage anyone with his wry, unadorned performance.
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My petition to sponsor my husband turned into a lively back-and-forth, prompting a wry chuckle from the officer behind the desk.
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Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, offered a wry take on the deal, one that was not exactly a ringing conservative endorsement.
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The whole thing is a wry joke on self-obsession and navel gazing: A New Yorker's world begins and ends in New York.
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Judge Kavanaugh said he was being wry, and critiquing the strategy of lawyers for President Bill Clinton during the investigation of that president.
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White invested his sentences with a new kind of wry simplicity that became a model for a lot of 20th-century American prose.
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For years, their club traipsed in the wilderness, knowing nothing but disappointment and regret and misery, greeting it all with a wry smile.
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It's not the typical chuckling or avuncular Willie Nelson song; it's haunted and morose, a minor-key existential blues without a wry twist.
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And as to the case of whiplash she was inflicting on the capital, Ms. Pelosi had a wry answer: "The day is young."
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It keeps the stakes high, but it's still a surprise and a relief whenever the film cracks a wry smile for a second.
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Michael Crawford was a cartoonist and a painter, a wry and sensitive artist who woke each day with his head full of dreams.
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Was the making of toasters—or other wry statements on the absurdity of modern life—a good use of his time on earth?
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Expect anything: Mr. Wegman's familiar Weimaraners and his less familiar grown children; overlong bits of wry experimental filmmaking; gleeful stints in the subways.
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Her recent documentaries, while not exactly confessional, are unabashedly personal, infused with her voice, her eye, her wry and rueful on-camera presence.
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"I don't want to imagine me having to say anything to Andy about an injury or anything," he added with a wry smile.
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It's far more clever than any home invasion flick in recent memory save Adam Wingard's wry 2013 sendup of the genre, You're Next.
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"Some people think of me as a design researcher or ethnographer, and I'm fine with those labels," he tells me, with a wry insouciance.
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I'd occasionally run into women Marines who'd been with me in that squad bay, and we'd remark with wry humor on the prescient words.
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Beyond its post-apocalyptic people-eaters, Borne maintains a wry self-awareness that's rare in dystopias, making it the most necessary VanderMeer book yet.
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"I remember when it started because it was budget time and they were about to cut my budget," he said, with a wry chuckle.
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A writing credit for Christopher Yost, who wrote on Thor: Ragnarok, could also bode well for capturing the show's dynamic pacing and wry humor.
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His guitar work is all cherry bomb pyrotechnics and the grin on his face moves from wry to ecstatic, but never out of control.
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When a CVS employee tells Eggleston and Almereyda that they can't take photos or videos in the store, the title plays like wry commentary.
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Whatever your tone or approach — objective reporter, storyteller, wry commentator, nerdy explainer, table-pounding polemicist — it is possible to do it well or poorly.
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Don't get me wrong: I like wry comedies and earnest dramas and white people in old-fashioned clothes as much as the next guy.
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Earlier this summer, I visited the New Square synagogue with Rabbi Sternberg, a wry and genial fifty-eight-year-old with a reddish beard.
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And when Alcott's readers demanded that Jo end up married — presumably, to the handsome boy-next-door, Laurie — Alcott complied, with a wry twist.
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Wry, tongue in cheek and packed with songs you'll know, love, and couch-dance along to, The Sapphires is great film making in action.
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It is a wry acknowledgment of the dramatic limitations of a genre that Disney dominates as utterly as the most fearsome comic-book villain.
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They are like a real smelly summer day with its reflections right before you, and there's a wry wit and sadness in them too.
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Now 21*, Izumi Miyazaki continues her wry exploration of stereotypes, building on the notoriety she received when she launched her career at age 15.
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The recipes range from wildly impractical to only slightly so, and the writing is shot through with the Joe Beef team's characteristic wry humor.
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Lee and Zoe have loads in common, they're British, they both have a wry sense of humor, and oh yes, they raised two children.
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But Steele's rumbling baritone and love of wry high drama made him a lovely leading man in any discerning metal-leaning witch's wet dream.
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But after Philip meets his stunning half-Italian cousin, Rachel (Rachel Weisz), he's too distracted by her wry smile to accuse her of murder.
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"5 Signs You Might Be A Terminator" was a zany mash-up of scenes from Terminator 2 and highlight their editing and wry humor.
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Sprinkled in among the inspiring pictures of beautiful Russian landmarks, the Russian Embassy routinely takes snapshots of headlines to make wry comments about them.
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This is the same wry, peripatetic series at heart, a vision of urban life as a web of stories connected by wisps of smoke.
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Sondheim's night music occupied a single house in wry waltz time; Lloyd Webber's the operatic basement in melodramatic swellings—musicals, still, of Gigantic Importance.
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Bannon would not be drawn on whether collusion is a crime, and offered a wry assessment of the former New York City mayor's efforts.
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In 1999, she moved to Los Angeles to play the wry press secretary C. J. Cregg on "The West Wing," winning four Emmy Awards.
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Oh, if they were very different, if one were, say, a musician, wry, and one a muscular philosopher, say, what society I would enjoy!
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"Over Everything" premiered on Beats 1 this afternoon as Zane Lowe's World Record, and it's everything that it should be—gorgeous, wry guitar-pop.
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He is said to have a wry, droll, almost English humor in person that does not come through so much in the public persona.
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The actor Kieran Culkin gives his audio interpretation a nerdy "textbook genre" delivery that shows his affinity for Riordan's wry sense of teenage humor.
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Like most of my fellow Melburnians, rather than confront him for his transgressions I gave a wry smile and bemused shake of the head.
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Without their Union insignia, "no women are coming up and asking to take their picture with us," Mr. Keefer said with a wry smile.
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She's also wry, blunt and sometimes profane, especially with people who doubt that black and brown children can learn as well as anyone else.
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Our reviewer called it a "courageous and unsettling memoir, infused with humor as well as pain, and marked throughout by a survivor's wry insight."
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Above all, for many members, there are Pastor Morris's weekly messages themselves: wry, often self-deprecating, sprinkled with biblical scholarship and often affectingly personal.
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Lesley Manville, "Phantom Thread" supporting actress: She gave a disquieting performance as the wry, watchful sister and business partner to Mr. Day-Lewis's couturier.
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Offering his thoughts on love and marriage, Mr. Rushdie began with a wry allusion to his own oft-married life (four, but who's counting).
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Ms. Norman was her usual winking, wry self: "Oh, that old thing?" she said with a laugh, when asked to reflect on her voice.
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It's something gentler and more compassionate, albeit with a wry sense of humor: the story of a female human being who became a superstar.
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Obama as Amy Sherald has rendered her, she stared right back at me, her hand propped under her chin, wry but not quite inviting.
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Many successful modern astrologists adopt a wry distance to their subject matter, a departure from the sincere and anodyne advice of traditional newspaper astrologers.
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"It ain't never been a rat problem in Baltimore; it's always been a people problem," says Harold Edmond, a wry exterminator and philosopher-poet.
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Where Griswold's journalism is immersive and adventurous, "First Person" is wry and intimate, sophisticated and all her own—imagining the adventure that is being.
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Now Mr. Nealon is hitting the stage for a handful of live performances, bringing his wry, observational comedy to this renowned Times Square venue.
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Watch Lee's face scrunch with wry incredulity when he realizes that a gorgeous comedian half his age (Laura Prepon) is making moves on him.
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Jue makes a delightfully wry impression as Hwang; Ricamora is dreamy as Xue in the inside musical and subtly duller in the outside one.
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Spurlock canvasses the country doing market research, investigating whether fast food fare has improved since his first film and making wry observations on branding.
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"I must say, as I'm getting older, the buzz is starting to drain a little," the father of three says with a wry laugh.
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"Paris 1919," the best known of his solo records, from 1973, is wry, expansive, and playful, featuring an assortment of literary and historical allusions.
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He lends a bite of urgency to his songs, and rarely skips a chance to claw at his plight, even risking a wry amusement.
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"One could say I've spent a great deal of time making very little of my subject matter," Mr. Ray said with a wry smile.
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While two of our tablemates readily cracked some wry jokes, the other two left much to be desired in the realm of dinner conversation.
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Not all of Ms. Weintraub's humor is easily classified (yes, quite a bit is WRY, and also dry, but there are goofy bits, too).
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"Who programmed this?" he asked backstage afterward with a wry smile, a towel in one hand and a bottle of Brooklyn Pilsner waiting nearby.
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John Mulaney doesn't adjust his wry stand-up sensibility or dumb down his references to be as inclusive as those classic public television shows.
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The stories vary greatly in tone and voice — by turns, raw, wry, rueful, comic, elliptical and confiding — but there is little sarcasm or snark.
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His investment fund is named Micromanagement Ventures Portfolio, or M.V.P., both a sports reference and a wry joke about his well-known leadership style.
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The fastest pitcher of all time George Plimpton, always a wry writer, invented the tale of Mets pitcher Siddhartha "Sidd" Finch for Sports Illustrated.
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These passages, staged with Mr. Chong's typically wry wit, are jazzier and more satirical than a Wikipedia entry, but not a lot more profound.
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Just as forthright and wry as his work about his life as an adult, his memory refreshingly lacks any tinge of nostalgia obscuring events.
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To call this standout book a corrective would make it sound earnest and dutiful, when in fact it is wry, readable and often astonishing.
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I tried to think of something wry, something worldly and sage, something that would let her know she shouldn't count me out just yet.
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His best tracks are wry, Auto-Tune-heavy R&B jams that seem like they were designed to make China's prudish internet censors blush.
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It gives space for wry commentary on the primal behavior of football fans and ample opportunity to poke fun at announcers' sublimely dumb jokes.
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If the earthy, wry "Peasant Bruegel" is well known, the impressive show in Vienna reveals an artist pushing the bounds of storytelling in landscape painting.
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During a wry acceptance speech, Daniels thanked everyone from his horse wrangler, to his horse, to the person who taught him to ride his horse.
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Almost immediately after Wolf finished her set — with a wry reminder that "Flint doesn't have clean water," no less — the outrage cycle went into overdrive.
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It almost looked like a wry smile was about to flash across his face, but he was staring daggers Drake's way for a minute there.
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A wry social critic whose frenetic peasant scenes, wondrous landscapes, and wintry tundras still attract the eye, Brueghel is a timeless master of his craft.
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Was it the second coming of the strategically chosen pussybow — and, thus, evidence of Melania, or her stylist, having a surprisingly wry sense of humor?
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When I met a few hours later with the brother of the executed Shia cleric, he and his translator had wry smiles on their faces.
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With a wry smile, the pilot made a terrifying mid-air U-turn landing on a tiny flat patch on the side of a mountain.
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Meryl Streep plays an eccentric socialite and terrible singer in Florence Foster Jenkins, a wry take on the life of a famously bad American performer.
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In fact, you'll probably absolutely love it—how could you, after all, resist its evocative lyrics and delicate musicianship, the wry humour of the thing?
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The actor Jesse Eisenberg wrote the foreword, and who better to introduce Mr. Jullien's wry, pointed pen-and-ink renderings of our 21st-century neuroses?
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Wry and playful, except for when densely allusive and willfully obtuse, "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" is a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.
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His face appears to flicker in and out of the head that houses it; his mouth, normally in a wry downturn, droops and then disappears.
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The American coach, Jill Ellis, offered a wry, are-you-kidding look when asked if her players had slowed toward the end of their game.
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Judith — gray-haired, gentle-voiced, wry — gives the impression of someone who is particularly unfazed by her husband's reputation and absorbed in her own projects.
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Speaking between wry smiles, Mr. Lazenby proudly recounts his life story, and how he ended up playing Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969).
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Mr. Sahl was a wry political commentator; Mr. Bruce was a profane social satirist; Mr. Berman was a beleaguered observer of life's frustrations and embarrassments.
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As they went through and made line edits to the text, Latour saw I was taking notes and turned to me with a wry smile.
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He made wry rhetorical jokes, like when I asked him if during his abduction, from the back of the truck, he could see the stars.
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Aaron is of course the story-teller-in-chief, and it his wry and rueful recollections of that season in Levittown that frame the proceedings.
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The strange, wry compositions were love songs, as conceived by a singer fully aware of the absurdity of falling in love and falling out again.
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Cavill "brings a convincing physical presence and some wry humanity and emotional depth to 'The Witcher,'" Mike Hale wrote in his review for The Times.
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Frankly, I've heard all the arguments by now, but this brief comment stood out for its wry humor and sense of irony — a lost art.
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In November 2019, Astros third baseman Alex Bregman told The Athletic&aposs Rustin Dodd that he thought Beltran helped the Yankees, with a wry smile.
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She frequently leans on her wit, flecking her appearances with wry jokes — about her hair, about Mr. Trump — that often prompt appreciative laughs in return.
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He was mildly unruly and wry, and he offered his own blunt take on why they were there past midnight in the middle of July.
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But that's tempered by Zola's constant strategizing and wry asides to the audience, a spot-on translation of the Twitter thread's savvy but incredulous tone.
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Plenty. Cover art: The senator stares straight ahead — hands on hips, the beginnings of a wry smile — as if preparing to upbraid an unruly banker.
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Imbued with her signature wry humor and caustic honesty, it's a reminder that Parker is one of the most exciting young poets working today. —T.
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" Craig retorted that she thought journalists should "get everything we want," and, with a wry smile, Kennedy agreed: "I think you should, too, Ms. Craig.
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Mia is a wry, carefree, would-be actress who hasn't found her footing, but at least knows a good piano figure when she hears one.
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She's about to take her company public, a move that she and a close adviser (Tracy Letts, wry and tart) hope will financially stabilize it.
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Langsdorf's wry debut captures the fallout as neighbors turn on one another, trees are set on fire and the town seems poised to fall apart.
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With a wry sort of joy, Claveloux conveys the spectrum contained in polarities: real and unreal, male and female, animal and human, young and old.
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It introduces us to a sharp social thinker, a wry (and increasingly melancholic) metaphysician, a plain-style visual poet and, above all, an artist-ethicist.
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Puértolas's wry novel, a postcolonial sendup of immigration and commerce, follows the fakir on his journey across Europe and from sly trickster to compassionate global citizen.
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"Unless you grab and squeeze hard, they're not listening," she said, wearing traditional African kitenge, red lipstick and a wry smile before a recent court hearing.
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"They would keep texting me things like 'I'm with you in spirit,'" she said with a wry smile, sipping orange juice at the Supreme Court's cafeteria.
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Henriksen's voice occasionally betrays the passage of time since Aliens, but he's still adept at conveying Bishop's wry sense of humor in the face of death.
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The theoretical musings of William James were the norm (a wry commenter once noted that William James was the writer, and his brother Henry, the psychologist).
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The stories are nearly all one-offs, all about 23 minutes long, and all as wry and witty as they are cute… and they're super-cute.
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"Hidden Truth" is something of a throwback for Darnielle, a grainy bedroom demo that elevates his wry lyricism and gentle melodic tendencies, eschewing hi-fi production.
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He speaks with a wry, over-the-top cadence, like he's spent a life running circles around people and is desperate for someone on his level.
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The anecdotes are amusing and instructive; plenty of wry internet-based and internet-like art projects get name-checked, and you'll want to Google them all.
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Films like And Then There Was No More Sea and The Rival World rose above their their educational purposes to deliver wry commentary and surreal imagery.
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His wry humor is catching, but he pushes away sympathy with his weaselly words around what, exactly, he did to give his persecutors all their ammo.
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If I had a guide for the fest, it was Amine Hamma, a wry and soft-spoken musician and writer who works for Visa For Music.
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On Friday, she will appear at Film Forum in Manhattan for a newly restored version of Mr. Godard's wry, eccentric quasi-caper "Band of Outsiders" (1964).
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Lyashko updated the declaration on Tuesday to report his lottery victories, prompting some wry comments online and a call by a former MP for an investigation.
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Throughout, the narrator—Snicket, maintaining a wry, depressive, and darkly amusing tone—repeatedly tells readers to stop, put down the book, and seek out something happier.
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But sitting opposite Thomson, it quickly becomes clear that this isn't going to be a conversation of wry smiles and ironic remarks about the curry club.
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She seems to be having a great time in the role, as does Mark Bedard, hilarious and seemingly effortless as the wry and opportunistic clown, Touchstone.
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He was in his early sixties, with a graying beard and a wry sense of humor: the staff often remarked that he reminded them of Freud.
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His book is a string of wry asides to the audience — pensées, jokes and anecdotes with the compression and tang of a Lydia Davis short story.
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" For the grown Ellen, he has provided a charmingly wry and understated meditation on dating, in which she reflects that "a milkshake is never a milkshake.
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She makes them sound contemporary and newly contemplative; she understates the dimensions that can seem religiose or portentous; she shows both wry humor and deep poignancy.
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When my husband, Don, and I set out to revise the obituary drafted by the daughters of my mentor, it mentioned his wry sense of humor.
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Deemed "seriously funny" by Lilly Lampe on Hyperallergic last year, Mary Reid Kelley makes wry, playful videos that explore the social standing of women throughout history.
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Filled with fried egg breasts and cucumber phalluses, Sarah Lucas's new retrospective at the New Museum illuminates her wry subversion of the patriarchal art historical canon.
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The book is a feminist manifesto that delicately unwraps the horror, but also bubbles with the love and wry humor that has endeared Toews to readers.
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We'd be even sadder that Please Like Me — Josh Thomas's wry and deeply human comedy — is over if its last season hadn't been so damn good.
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At Moms, the town's only late-night bar, a few soccer players were in a wry but subdued mood, commiserating after a loss earlier that evening.
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By the fourth time Prince's work shows up, however, it's as if he's become a relentless killer from a slasher film, back for another wry deconstruction.
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Instead, the cast and creative team have made the resuscitation feel effortless, probing each of its intricate relationships with frequent humor and a gently wry perspective.
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She is also one of the great food writers of the modern age, a ferocious reporter whose prose is wry and wise and funny and smart.
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Neither is he an ex-pro, and his wry, expansive, often very funny musings on the game are consequently free of the player-pundit's tunnel vision.
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The fire god Loge (Russell Thomas, sounding bronzed and burnished and wanting just a touch more viciousness) isn't the usual sprightly trickster, but wry and thoughtful.
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While there are abattoir scenes, and no shortage of heartache, much of the film is madcap and light, and shot through with Mr. Bong's wry humor.
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"Were-Monster" includes loads of callbacks and nods to superfans, but it was also the only revival episode that captured the wry humor of the series.
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Laura Barger will lead a chamber ensemble in performing Saint-Saëns's score, and Lelund Durond Thompson will deliver Ogden Nash's wry verses about the musical menagerie.
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Laura Kuhn, director of the John Cage Trust, is one of the conch players; she's also perfect — lucid, wry — as one of the "How To" readers.
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It is the custom of internet life in the 21st century to compete for likes, shares and retweets with wry or snarky comments on the news.
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When we last saw Ethan Lipton, the wry and mustachioed playwright and songwriter, in "No Place to Go," he was debating whether to move to Mars.
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It could sound like one, too, playing hard-rock riffs or churning ahead like the Clash; its lyrics are wry, hardheaded bulletins from Morocco's urban youth.
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Ryan was sitting on the stage in shirtsleeves, and he tilted his head and shifted his body into a pose that communicated wry but earnest bemusement.
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When fans of the wry "Pitch Perfect" series first met the ragtag singing group the Barden Bellas, they were ensconced in the college a cappella bubble.
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Eden Robinson's almost magical ability to blend wry humor, magical realism and teenage reality will have you holding your breath for the next in the series.
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Many were offbeat: a wry look at tourists gawking up at skyscrapers in Manhattan, a plan to resurrect a South Dakota ghost town by installing Indians.
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"Lovesick in a Hotel Wildfire," the album's second single following "Half Asleep," is an ode to just that sentiment, all wily Springsteen adrenaline and wry triumph.
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And suddenly, because the added definition in the characters joins a game fully driven by a physics model, it's also found a wry edge of humor.
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So it is hardly surprising that the former Democratic contender exacted a smidgen of wry revenge Tuesday after Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump's national security adviser.
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During the hours-long red carpet lead-up to the biggest Hollywood award show, A-Listers smile for the cameras, flexing their best couture and wry smiles.
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Ever since, its fans have clamored for a screen adaptation of the lighthearted, wry story about an angel and a demon trying to avert a haywire apocalypse.
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Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings suffering the tragedies she writes about.
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After publishing a story in the New Yorker, Bourdain got a book deal — and the chance to bring his wry wisdom and unforgettable perspective to the world.
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It takes a great comedian to pull off the role of straight man; Moore played the wry straight man to his own bombastically over-the-top series.
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Before, during, and after the 2016 election, Meyers delivered night after night of insightful political commentary and smart interviews, always with keen insight and a wry grin.
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During the '90s she had a recurring role on the Nickelodeon sitcom My Brother and Me as the wry best friend of the main character's older sister.
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Outside of assuaging minds trapped in public spaces, Pederson's body of work also offers wry observations and clever interventions into seldom-thought-about aspects of public life.
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Finding someone capable of filling those sizable shoes -- mixing Bond's sense of menace with his wry one-liners and suave manner with women -- represented no small challenge.
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The track as a whole is a wry re-centering of the narrative back onto the music, and is typical of Staples' witty approach to his art.
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" (In a few scenes, he's forced to wear a borrowed "Property of Josh Groban" T-shirt, which only adds to the wry wit of it all.) "Mr.
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Seating everyone in such confined quarters (which Mr. Hamilton has done in other productions) increases the intensity of this engrossing work's wry humor and occasional bloody violence.
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These short, cute "Summer Camp Island" episodes are wry and witty, and a treat for animation buffs — or for any child or adult who enjoys lighthearted surrealism.
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Drawn with scraggly lines and a wry expressiveness, her people look like Quentin Blake characters who have put on a few pounds and changed into colorful clothing.
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The connecting tissue between the two songs–aside from the unmistakable vocals and wry lyrics–is the use of a common but not readily obvious melodic scale.
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They frequently let in a little wry humor, and there's a lot less focus on rape — but they were one of the many influences on Martin's series.
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"This is the same wry, peripatetic series at heart, an intoxicating vision of urban life as a web of stories connected by wisps of smoke," he added.
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While Mr. Stewart was the host of "The Daily Show," Mr. Wilmore became a fixture as the program's "senior black correspondent," offering wry observations on racial issues.
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But to the company's critics, that employee motivational moment has also served as a wry historical foreshadowing of safety problems with one of Samsung's top-selling smartphones.
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"Fuck the police"'s nihilistic, yet wry, desire to wipe the whole cultural slate clean is just one of Bonney's many-shaded varieties of anti-capitalist invective.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Weaves' answer to political frustration and bafflement is equal parts wry distance and primal fury in "Scream" from "Wide Open," its album due Oct. 6.
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"At least she takes care of herself," mumbles Inga's husband, Baldvin (a wonderfully wry Sigurdur Sigurjonsson), squinting sidelong at his frowzy spouse before escaping to choir practice.
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Decades before "Scream" ushered in the trend of horror movies that knowingly commented on themselves, "Halloween" adopted a wry self-consciousness that constantly drew attention to itself.
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"Republicans are running their own races in each of their districts while the president is talking about topics important to him," he said with a wry chuckle.
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He's one feral twitch away from Renfield in the 1931 "Dracula," as the family's lawyer (David Bradley, a welcome, wry presence) discovers during a very unwise visit.
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Just as raunchy comedies like "American Pie" were winning big at the box office, wry satires like "Office Space" fell through the cracks in the late '90s.
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"My son Sam is crazy about Ingo Maurer," says Lou, proud if a little wry, pointing to the fabulous light fixtures hanging over the bespoke pewter bar.
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She is wry and unflinching, stating the songs so boldly that their male chauvinism, untenable romanticism or high morality start to form a genre of dark humor.
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My grandfather's wry comment was that apparently the only Germans worth mentioning were 'the Hessians who had fought on the wrong side in the War for Independence.
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Once synonymous with a kind of 1950s sex kitten cum housewife, marabou is getting a 21st-century makeover, giving a wry twist to jewelry, shoes and more.
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He said that Ms. Naturale had done a good job of capturing the wry, dry way dictionary editors joke with one another and that, by contrast, Dictionary.
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Farrow can be disarmingly wry — "I knew my way around a paternity rumor" — even when writing about another shadowy psyops firm spying on him and other journalists.
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So far, he has handled the challenge with poise, observers say, and a little bit of the wry sass that made him famous in his home country.
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A former child actor, Lewis ventured into music in the late 1990s when she became the wry storyteller-frontwoman of the seminal indie-pop band Rilo Kiley.
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A lot of that chatter is humorous — often gentle and wry, on rare occasion uproarious — but there's also a powerful undertow of loss running through the movie.
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He made it a songwriting genre with wry, detailed lyrics that helped shape the idea of American freedom via stories of teenage abandon or open-road adventure.
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Nicola L, a French Pop artist who was best known for wry feminist sculpture of female and male forms that often function as furniture, died on Dec.
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Justice Roberts might not have known about the idea of the extended mind, but it supports his wry observation that smartphones have become part of our body.
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Later that year, in an interview with the gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate, she had wry advice for other same-sex couples hoping to become parents.
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Mr. Levitas, customarily serious-minded, was known to surprise colleagues on occasion with just a hint of a wry smile as he insouciantly dropped a bon mot.
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"My Parents" is warm, wry and loving — but because this is Hemon, he shows his affection not through sentimental declarations but by paying close attention to specifics.
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With each successive episode, the series has shed layer after layer, revealing itself to be something much grimmer than just a wry indictment of the über-rich.
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That's largely in part due to the character of Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a wry, detached prostitute who's immersed in Times Square culture, but intellectually floating above it all.
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And even if it's not essential to the Coens' canon, it captures the wry essence of their three-decade career and what makes their movies so consistently delightful.
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But when the opportunity came to employ the nuclear option for Supreme Court Justices, McConnell, with a wry smile, did an about-face and changed the Senate rules.
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So we should approach this story about Prince's estate with the same wry chuckle we're sure Boozer had when he came to find that his house was purple.
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He doesn't even take any of his fights seriously—a good chunk of his dialogue is being bored with monsters, though not even in that wry, Deadpool way.
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I remember feeling distinctly surprised when I found out you had really specific cultural tastes, and you had a quirky, wry, kind of indescribable sense of humor. 221.
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In closing, Galifianakis made a wry reference to Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as America's top diplomat, which was investigated by the FBI.
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On the sexy, wry second album single "Love Me," he's giving it Prince-meets-Posh Spice, gyrating so hard it's a wonder he doesn't put his back out.
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Members of both parties stood, applauded, and cheered as Scalise walked into the House chamber Thursday morning, using crutches and giving them a wry shake of his head.
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As a graduate student, Salamon studied the philosophy of science, and her lectures often seemed to take the wry view of humans as only marginally more evolved chimps.
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Yet it was over a decade before Jenkins, who made her debut with the wry Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), could get a new project funded and finished.
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There were the twinned and complementary wry wits of Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy, which anchored the punchline-laden world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's 30 Rock.
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On the other end of the TikTok spectrum, creators have started using the platform to make wry jokes about living with a low-burning fear of gun violence.
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Famous for verbal gaffes but generally regarded with wry affection by Britons, Philip married Elizabeth in 1947 and has been by his wife's side throughout her long reign.
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Between Agent Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook)'s wry documentary-style commentary is a fast-paced tragic cat-and-mouse chase that will have you staying up all night.
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In a wry tone — equal parts explanatory and self-aware — Crampton-Brophy used her essay to detail various writerly perspectives on putting a spouse's slaying into a story.
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John Kennedy inspired an entire generation of men to stop wearing hats in public, and his wry, detached demeanor shaped masculine culture in the early 1960s, Podair says.
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The story unfolds from there, combining madcap chase scenes and wry (but savage) corporate satire with touches borrowed from torture horror — except this time it's about factory farming.
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It might not even be fair to call it "talk" when her wry and occasionally borderline whimsical assaults on her opponents' psyches are more akin to multimedia presentations.
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"It should really be called Woke Up Happy," suggests Frightened Rabbit guitarist Andy Monaghan of the band's emotionally fraught new LP. A wry giggle passes round the room.
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She's got a slight cockney drawl to her voice, which gives her the same wry, unimpressed delivery as King Krule, who in turn also sounds like Joe Strummer.
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Clinton, also a former senator who served with Reid, made a wry reference to the relatively low profile she has kept since Republican Donald Trump won the Nov.
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The show's premise is dark, but its comedy is light: In that contrast lies its appeal, and the basis of its wry and affectionate update on the sitcom.
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The sculpture is a punning extension of his work on a magazine called Toilet Paper and also a wry tip of his hat to Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" urinal.
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Maybe it's the humor: America grew up on vaudeville and slapstick, more youthful and accessible forms, whereas Russian humor is winking and wry, at home between the lines.
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" Mr. Kovarsky let his imagination roam freely for his covers, which Art News, in 1978, called "wry and often beautiful excursions into pattern, color, movement and American life.
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For some, there was a palpable feeling of excitement around the collective, whose effervescent, slicked-back hyper-pop creations injected a wry, much-needed playfulness into club culture.
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But the sheer quantity of clever sentences and wry observations weighs the story down, until the championship game becomes not only anticlimactic, but also strangely beside the point.
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The film was directed by Lauren Greenfield, whose previous documentaries "The Queen of Versailles" and "Generation Wealth" are wry examinations of a fading aristocracy's lingering delusions of grandeur.
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Interviews with friends and collaborators, such as George Harrison, Eddie Vedder and Roger McGuinn are sprinkled throughout; of course, there's plenty of wry insight from Mr. Petty himself.
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"Anne also had a wry sense of humor that was all the more delightful coming from this otherwise reserved and gracious giant of the field," Dr. Kanwisher said.
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She sat for a series of interviews, displaying her wry sense of humor but very little skin, wearing baggy, long-sleeve sweatshirts and jackets that camouflaged her physique.
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One point made in this wry and illuminating documentary from Penny Lane is that the group that calls itself the Satanic Temple is not composed of devil worshipers.
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"Women Talking" is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism and, above all, forgiveness.
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A narrative game in the rough vein of A Stanley Parable, it's a funny exploration of theatricality in games, with a wry narrator and some clever surreal touches.
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But her general ruefulness and wry observations feel thin; the book is less a diary of someone's deepest thoughts, insecurities and secrets than a carefully curated Wikipedia entry.
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The wry confession of his mistake, which Szarkowski made in 1982 to an interviewer, is not mentioned in "Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures," which opened Sunday at MoMA.
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But Mr. Washington has already won two Oscars, and Mr. Affleck, helped by a comeback narrative, is proving to be a gracious, wry presence on the awards circuit.
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When we last met Ethan Lipton, the wry and mustachioed playwright and songwriter, in "No Place to Go," he was debating whether or not to move to Mars.
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Neeson, taking a break from his usual wintertime angry-dad action-movie duties, is wry and crinkly, his loose limbs and craggy features suggesting great power in repose.
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"Maybe I'm a good-luck charm," he said with a wry smile, sitting in the stands while the Leafs slapped pucks toward the net during the morning skate.
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Vera has his own minions, Peanuts (Young M.A) and Javi (Jahneer E. Williams), who view both their boss's flights of fancy and Elliot's shattered psyche with wry bemusement.
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That is to say that they are stunning, vibrant and sometimes wry examinations of the cacophony that has defined New York for as long as anyone can remember.
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Osaka's youthful comments, wry sense of humor and power game have endeared her to tennis crowds around the world, but Williams is not likely to be so smitten.
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" Contributing to that power, Mr. Wakefield said, is the wry humor that is a Superflex signature: "They use art to introduce people to serious issues without being didactic.
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Witt is a sharp observer of the behavior and the motivations of others, a wry, affectionate portraitist of idealistic people and the increasingly surreal place they belong to.
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But Wilder's humor is on point when it comes to skewering the pretensions of Long Island's upper class; this is as sharp and wry as romantic comedy gets.
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And as more than one Google engineer pointed out with a wry smirk, it doesn't require you to awkwardly plug it into the side of the device to charge.
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Sitting on his porch with a beer in hand, the half-shaved 37-year-old recalls the story with a wry smile as the Abraham River rushes behind him.
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Mr. Edberg vividly captured the stark, wailing character of the opening section and the moments of wry humor later on in the piece, which blends tonal and atonal elements.
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"The bodies pile up, as do the wry asides about what is and what is not good for the country," Sarah Lyall writes, reviewing the book alongside other thrillers.
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Officials tried to stay above the fray, frequently declining to comment with a wry smile, insisting they weren't going to respond to every statement made on the campaign trail.
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Mitchell Lichtenstein's Teeth is regularly billed as a horror-comedy, but the humor is pretty low-key and wry compared to something like Scream or Shaun of the Dead.
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She's too low-key and wry for that; her Hateship, Loveship was uneven and a little too Sundance-quirky, but the tone was just right, like it is here.
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In addition to the five championships the team has won, he is known for his wry and combative style with reporters and his strong left-of-center political views.
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Almost 60 professional Muay Thai matches and 12 straight MMA victories later, Champion still speaks of the haphazard venue with a bit of awe mixed into her wry observations.
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His performance is effortlessly roguish and wry, but he also ups the emotional ante, grounding the fight against evil as well as the fledgling romance with heart and soul.
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That the Edith Grove reconstruction is located in the Saatchi Gallery—whose owner's name is today shorthand for the mingling of art and money—is a particularly wry touch.
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The slight erosion has been accompanied by a sharper attention to lyrics, which Ms. Maye delivered with a wry, good-humored warmth tinged with a sense of the absurd.
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It's clear when you listen to Phoebe Bridgers' music that she's been strongly influenced by the work of Elliott Smith—their styles of wistful but wry storytelling are similar.
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Her political material is wry and pointed, and her personal jokes can achieve the poignancy of a slice-of-life scene from one of Alan Bennett's delicately observed plays.
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Actually, there is a third significant female role, that of Dora (a wry Chelsea Cree Groen), whose romance with a police officer provides one of the show's diversionary subplots.
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In the beginning, I would suggest they join me, hoping to create an accountability community, but that got only wry smiles and a quick turn back to their screens.
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But the 30 centenarians facing the camera in Alex Fegan's delightful documentary "Older Than Ireland" are simply beautiful: frail, yes, but wise, wry, flinty, funny and sometimes very tender.
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Malik Taylor, 45, a wry and agile rapper known as Phife Dawg, brought left-of-center hip-hop to the masses as a member of A Tribe Called Quest.
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Featuring the familiar faces of superheroes, as well as more wry pop culture cartoons, the form of a comic strip has gone through many stages of evolution and reinvention.
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Giving a wry twist to the overheated debate around bathroom access, the artist assails borders between genders, and between bodies and their accessories, with a kind of dignified slapstick.
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She's now graduated from the wry rom-com best friend to the mostly put-upon ex-wife (currently, in the Showtime series "Kidding," where's she's estranged from Jim Carrey).
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The artist understands that each image-making technique passes and shapes information differently, and she selects her formal tools (and their respective historical baggage) with intelligence and wry humor.
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It required extensive restoration to bring the work back to life, but even in this diminished scope, the sculptures inspire the wry smile one often associates with Grooms' work.
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Jonathan Gardner's wry, lush and pleasurable paintings; Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell's master works; two shows refiguring the future of new media; and Fin Simonetti on the myths of masculinity.
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In this tender, wry and entertaining novel, Englander nimbly juggles these possibilities, creating an endearing hero who stumbles through a world in which the holy and profane are intertwined.
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The movie opens in 2005, the year of Beksinski's death, with him making some wry and libidinous comments about future technology to a man we'll learn was his biographer.
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Mr. Long described his fossilized-looking, crystal-studded sculpture of an enormous phallic stump, which takes over an entire wall, as "Father Earth" in a wry but hopeful way.
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Posy Simmonds was known for her particularly wry voice, but Paul Gravett's book gives its namesake short shrift, not placing her clearly enough in the context of other illustrators.
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In Ms. Coppola's wry rethink, Colin Farrell is the soldier and Nicole Kidman is Miss Martha, the steel-magnolia administrator who regards the corporal as the Big Bad Wolf.
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Tim Robbins and Geena Davis, as Jon and Tess, play their characters with close-to-the-vest discipline, and Ms. Smith tempers Marjorie's physical vulnerability with a wry skepticism.
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In a recent broadcast of previously unseen private tapes, Diana told her voice coach, with wry regret, that she and Charles had met just 13 times before their marriage.
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Gazing at the sketch, I felt bathed in love for my husband and also for Nancy, who never surrenders her wry perspective and quirky values while grappling with disease.
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Characters such as chief surgeon Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda) dished out wry humor as they dealt with the stress of wartime, battlefield injuries physical and psychological, and death.
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Books of The Times As host of "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah comes across as a wry, startled and sometimes outraged outsider, commenting on the absurdities of American life.
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He has always been a wry observer of the intensity of feelings, although in the past, that skill was put to use skewering (and celebrating) his own cultural obsessions.
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But the most important thing to recognize in the decoration at 529 Broadway is that it isn't "wry or tongue-in-cheek," said Harry Kendall, a partner at BKSK.
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Through his stand-up comedy, acting roles (in "Louie" and "The Wrestler") and writing ("Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg"), Todd Barry has developed a reputation for wry humor.
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Expect wry, hilarious non sequiturs muttered in between songs — like "Them Changes" and "Show You the Way" — that will be full of elastic funk grooves and blistering bass solos.
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In an opera that traffics heavily in sleeping, dreaming, and less-than-subtle sexual suggestion, the bed imagery on stage shows a wry and thorough understanding of the text.
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Gaiman's voice is not so much heightened and lyrical as it is grounded and calm, with a wry, ironic sense of humor that spills over into the characters' dialogue.
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Positioned here at the end, "Engram of Returning" is almost a wry rejoinder: What will we remember of all the places and histories these short films transported us to?
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Clinton referenced all this in a wry message early Tuesday, in which she retweeted a joke by Philippe Reines, who worked for Clinton in both the Senate and State Department.
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What it's about: A historical examination, written with wry humor and through a feminist lens, of the female serial killers who rival their male counterparts in evil and violent intelligence.
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This ties into Fade In's other, more trenchant, yet still reliably wry track, which looks into the role of art in TV and film, the status and appearances it assumes.
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There's no righteous whistleblower here, no Karen Silkwood, but we do meet Roger Witherspoon, a wry, grizzled environmental reporter, and his wife, a determined anti-nuclear activist named Marilyn Elie.
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Screenshot via YouTube Chicago's Chris Crack is one of rap's merriest pranksters, possessed with a razor-sharp wit, an eye for odd juxtapositions and hypocrisies, and a wry, elastic flow.
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Michael and I met a few times at a gloomy bar on Main Street, where he offered a wry perspective on Winsted politics and the plight of small-town America.
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There is a temptation to focus on Turtleneck Man as a person: his tilted head, his wry smile, his chirpy obliviousness to the loud booing that envelops his final sentiments.
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When she's making wry faces at her co-stars or rambling adorably, she's funny enough to make you wonder where this side of Stewart has been hiding all these years.
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"It's certainly not based on my looks or my figure," Ms. Donahue, a friend of the designers who runs a namesake gallery on the Bowery, said with wry self-deprecation.
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It's a sometimes-wry, sometimes-poignant look at urban loneliness, and the character-building accomplished in these webisodes in just a few minutes puts plenty of feature films to shame.
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Yet he remained a vital presence through his later years as he pressed for reforms in corporate governance and fund administration, mixing sharp rhetoric with a wry sense of humor.
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Cohen approached the end of his life with the same wry bemusement he'd used that night, quipping during a listening session last month that he'd rather choose to live forever.
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Like Ho, he has suffered professional repercussions for his political stance—within six months of the protests, job offers had completely dried up—but the pair share a wry fatalism.
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Mr. Falih, who is fluent in English and has a wry sense of humor, does most of the talking, with Mr. Novak often poker-faced and speaking through an interpreter.
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To his close friends he was an easy, funny guy, caustic but wry, with a love for jazz, a taste for beer and Scotch and an amateurish facility on piano.
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Now 21*, Miyazaki, who cites a number of surrealists as her inspiration, continues her thoughtful, wry, and precise work on identity stereotypes, setting cultural clichés alongside grotesque or awkward elements.
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I read his comments with a wry smile, as did many of my friends, former or current employees of MoMA, who, like me, were once curatorial assistants (often dubbed "CAs").
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" The piece begins with two sentences, a Conlonesque opening that is as wry as it is dry: "1971 was not a good year to be a cop in New York.
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Caught in the hissing electric lurch, they sound less detached and less meta; American Dream includes fewer distancing devices, fewer wry admissions of referentiality, than any other LCD Soundsystem album.
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Finding out just how far that loyalty extends becomes just as important as the MacGuffin itself in "Blow the Man Down," which ends on a wry note of cheerful menace.
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"I feel fairly sure that I could address the entire world if only I had a place to stand," said the wry, peripatetic American artist Jimmie Durham in the 1980s.
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Mr. Rabin painted still lifes and landscapes, often imbuing them with wry critiques of Soviet life, but his fame rested as much on his defiance as on his artistic ability.
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Roach's accounts of cadavers and their many uses — as crash test dummies, as subjects in experiments in plastic surgery — are narrated by Shelly Frasier in a wry and knowing tone.
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Following the day-to-day of workers in a São Paulo supermarket, it depicts their repetition-based activities with wry humor, letting their silly idle conversations flow into their work.
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It is Dina — whose wry ennui seems both provincial and worldly — who arranges lodging for the band's members when it emerges they'll be stuck in Bet Hatikva for the night.
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"This is the same wry, peripatetic series at heart, a vision of urban life as a web of stories connected by wisps of smoke," Mr. Poniewozik wrote in The Times.
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Over cool, dark-toned string arrangements, he let out shivery cries that harked to the influence of Coleman, but had their own wry relationship to the surrealism of the film.
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But viewers had to make do with the self-portrait, because the artist with bright blue eyes and a wry, self-deprecating sense of humor was nowhere to be seen.
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The story unfolds from there, combining madcap chase scenes and wry (but savage) corporate satire with touches borrowed from torture horror and dropping them into a story about factory farming.
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Before he died in 2015, Pratchett asked that everything he had been working on be destroyed by steamroller, an act in keeping with the wry humour of his Discworld series.
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Not a single person has asked me about the AirPods, presumably because they think I'm listening to music, but I've exchanged wry smirks with fellow commuters who know I look stupid.
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Neil Patrick Harris and Laura Dern are particular standouts as shills for Leisureland Estates, in a marvelously spry, wry scene that mimics an infomercial combined with a hotel room sales seminar.
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Kendrick called the error out on Twitter, with a wry post: Dear Yahoo: how do I get to this timeline where I've slept with Enrique Iqlesias please and thank you. pic.twitter.
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It has a cartoonish, almost Lego-ish aesthetic and a wry, upbeat summer-camp vibe: When you high-five someone else via your hand controllers, a cloud of confetti bursts out.
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Spliced into Jung Jaei-il's dread-laden score, fragrant bouquets of classical music provide bustling comic counterpoint as well as wry commentary on the snooty cultural values being slowly eviscerated onscreen.
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But after some time and carefully considered responses, he made his way back into Hollywood's good graces enough to both get an Oscar nomination and star in a wry Christmas comedy.
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Still, hints of personal style and commentary come through: the Koch brothers, for instance, are rendered with wry, gleaming halos; some pencil drawings resemble courtroom sketches, alluding to the subjects' criminality.
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" As to whether Styles is still friends with any of his famous ex-girlfriends, including Taylor Swift and Kendall Jenner, he said with a wry smile, "Everyone should be friends, right?
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She is ably supported by Arjun Rampal, who is the surprise element with his role as the wry, languorous police officer who tries to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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"At that stage it's all about just touch the ball, it's already good," 37-year-old Swiss Federer, who happens to be the Prince's favorite player, said with a wry smile.
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It ranges from the immersive and beautiful (Tom Kitchen's Home, itself a tiny exploration game in its own right) to the conceptually wry (Pippin Barr's cheeky The Available Space I & II).
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Prog On In Kelefa Sanneh's wry homage to the seventies musical genre progressive rock, or prog rock, he doesn't mention its faithful chemical companion, LSD (A Critic at Large, June 19th).
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The 81-year-old Simons can be engaging in person, with a wry sense of humor (he may also be the last man in America who still smokes in his office).
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"After seeing my therapist for four years, and pressing her on what the hell is wrong with me, she finally used an analogy about soldiers," he says, with a wry laugh.
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Bill Callahan's wry and sardonic writing style, lo-fi approach and commanding baritone have made him one of the most evocative and compelling songwriters and lyricists of the last two decades.
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Which anthem will produce a wry smile in a potential partner, causing them to swipe right when otherwise your profile picture would have been thrown into the binary scrapheap of rejects?
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Conceptually, his songs are wry snapshots of the American Scene in the 1950s; harmonized with Kerouac's On the Road (1957) and Robert Frank's The Americans (1958), they make interesting historical music.
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Jokes are learned through trial-and-error by the supercomputer Mike in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and through wry observation by the humanoid Ava in Ex Machina.
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Frances has a wry approach to Christianity ("Jesus didn't talk very much during Mark's gospel, which made me more interested in reading the others"), but she seems to take it seriously.
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Alcalá's short, wry lines, self-interruptions and open spaces remind us how little precedent there is for honest writing on these topics, compared with the epic traditions of fathers and sons.
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But Mr. Holden said the "ethos" of Gawker — which prided itself on a wry, pirate-ship approach to reporting — would also be considered in determining new ownership of the Gawker name.
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There were inevitable jokes playing on the role that made him famous ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Viruses") and new hashtags (#ExpectoCoronus), and a typically wry quip from Mr. Radcliffe himself.
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He gave me an eye-roll and a wry smile, and scrubbed his shoes with a wipe in the corner for a while before he took off his gear and left.
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His easygoing style and wry sense of humor helped him establish a rapport with President George W. Bush and with the Obama administration's point man on Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden.
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Beach Road, in the island's belly, at one time had a self-evident name; now it reads like a wry joke, given how much new land separates it from the ocean.
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He, in his mid-40s, has the gentle demeanor of a guidance counselor; she, in her 60s, is wry and funny, and tends to bounce from one topic to the next.
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In her third term in the Senate, she has the Washington experience Buttigieg lacks—as well as an energy and a wry sense of humor that sets her apart from Biden.
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It's a joy to wallow in the muck with Mackay, who writes in a bold style that reflects confidence rather than bravado, occasionally breaking up the tension with a wry joke.
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All are delivered with a wit and concision reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Diane Williams, a wry intelligence and keen irony that don't prevent Unferth's prose from offering deep emotional intimacy.
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By the time Mr. Stevens and Ms. Bloom start filming, this almost cosmic push-pull between mother and daughter seems to have resolved itself to a wry but balanced mutual orbit.
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His writing for this group was provocative and ambitious from the very start: The music he makes is melancholy and marbled with darkness, but it's wry, too, not overly self-serious.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 89%What critics said: "To the show's credit, Harley Quinn at least approaches its extreme content with a wry smile, if not a knowing wink.
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"You're overcompensating because I don't have a mom — again," Genevieve exclaims as she leaves the room, cementing the wry, unabashed tone that comes to define Everything's Gonna Be Okay's debut season.
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For the first time since he started speaking, a wry smile tugged at the corners of his mouth, a wink and a nod to his new-found fame in the community.
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His long list of studio credits reflects not a colorless sideman for hire but a versatile musician with a distinct sensibility: whimsical, rowdy, eclectic, wry, historically informed, sometimes spooky, sometimes absurd.
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"I admit, I am not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want," Mr. McConnell said with a wry smile from the Senate floor.
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" Those who are about a decade older likely think of Mr. Lowery instead as the wry college-rock guy who sang Camper Van Beethoven's surreal 1985 song "Take the Skinheads Bowling.
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In addition to song lyrics and cryptic messages on her website, Instagram is a key medium in the wry, unceasing dialogue-in-secrets carried out between the pop star and her fans.
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As wry in person as he is in his lacerating prose, Lofgren told BuzzFeed News that despite what the "Deep State" has come to mean, he's happy with the work he's done.
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And for every fame-hungry MagCon attendee, there were thousands of teens and tweens simply being creative and expressing themselves, like "On fleek" inventor Peaches Monroee or wry bully thwarter Brandon Bowen.
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Whitford plays him with the mix of wry wit and malice he perfected in The Cabin in the Woods and Get Out, infusing some desperately needed (though dark) humor into the show.
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Pub date: March 26 Mary Laura Philpott's memoir-in-essays is like a reassuring pep talk from someone who's been there, full of wry observations about the expectations and disillusionments of adulthood.
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And since yesterday was International Women's Day, what better way to do it than with good food, served with a wry grin and a side of two fingers up to the patriarchy?
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That includes not only Jones -- destined for a busy stretch with "Rogue One" about to launch -- but also Irrfan Khan as a shadowy operative who injects a wry wit into the festivities.
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From Gattu's earnest father (Darshan Jariwala) to his loyal friend Bhura (played wonderfully by Herry Tangiri), Vyas and Pannalal manage to infuse smart lines and lots of wry wit into their story.
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People with herpes who scoured the internet for research on their condition often discovered Halford's scientific writing and blog posts, which combined technical information and a wry frustration with the status quo.
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At one point, in a wry inversion of the well-known Philip Larkin quotation (part of which Schine borrows for her title), Joy broods about her relationship with her son and daughter.
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A wry sendup of the "Snow White" fairy tale by Kevin Del Aguila and Eli Bolin, who did Theatreworks's first Skippyjon adaptation, this show is every bit as clever, comical and boisterous.
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The story of how the British and American forms of English came to be seen as foes, despite their underlying friendship, is told here with wry humo(u)r and scholarly acumen.
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In wry Scandinavian fashion, both of those men have trouble convincing their wives that world-shaking events are taking place, and are ordered to pick up children and wash dishes as scheduled.
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And Reparation Hardware is mock ad for the exhibition that stars an abandoned New England barn, a field of urinating cows, and a wry Harris-Babou herself as the Reparation Hardware spokesperson.
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There are few TV actors better at delivering wry nerd-speak than Scott, who plays a disgraced Stanford professor who believes in "the multiverse" and is certain that aliens abducted his wife.
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And while the Lego movies' slide toward Saturday morning cartoon territory is disheartening, the franchise still packs in enough wry humor to make it much more fun than your average kids' movie.
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It could have been a sombre moment in the film, but lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya brilliantly turns it around by injecting wry, rustic humour that is sure to make the grumpiest audience chuckle.
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Samira Wiley's so sharply bright she casts a shadow over the present; Alexis Bledel is a wry surprise; Madeline Brewer plays Janine as a YA protagonist for whom everything's gone hopelessly sour.
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His penchant for simplification and wry use of symbolic language permeates skate and streetwear staples, but when I ask him to speculate about his influence on emerging artists, he draws a blank.
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But the Brooklyn-based artist, who as a child dreamed of becoming a radio journalist, narrates with a knowing, wry warmth, weaving in interview snippets and documentary moments with MoMA staff members.
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Only one film in the Pixar canon might be described as anything like a conventional action film: The Incredibles, a wry, funny story about a family of superheroes from director Brad Bird.
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Renata Adler's wry, thrillingly associative novel "Pitch Dark" ranges over political events, romantic hurts and literary allusions, each of her scenes — with animals, among friends, between lovers — holding a measure of heartbreak.
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" Its wry anticipation of a likely rejection evokes a popular joke of unknown origin that tells of a tourist on a busy street engaging a local resident with the words, "Excuse me.
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Also, in a wry subversion of patriarchal power dressing favorites, a sweeping imperial scarlet cape embroidered with gold leaves, as well as a series of black papal cassocks, trimmed in fake fur.
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In it, Bolaño enfolds the adventures of Jan, Remo and José Arco — along with Jan's sci-fi letters and digressions — into a rich and wry second narrative, packed with enigmatic, funny allusion.
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The music (by Elliot Goldenthal) telegraphs the emotions too precisely, and Mr. Haruf's wry and subtle plot is mishandled, so that there is both too much dramatic conflict and not quite enough.
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Jack Paar, a wry, spontaneous and brainy broadcaster whose "The Tonight Show" and "The Jack Paar Program" pioneered the late-night television talk show in the 1950s and early 1960s, died Jan.
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I still remember my grandfather's quietly wry jokes, my dad's terrible stuffing that no one would ever say to his face was terrible, my mom and aunt bustling in the kitchen, laughing.
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Rodgers, known for his wry sense of humor, poked fun at the entire situation on Wednesday by posting a photo to Instagram of the Packers locking arms during the anthem last week.
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After nearly 1.5 hours of shifting between wry humor, cheerfulness and occasional annoyance, Khodorkovsky grows emotional describing an impoverished girl in a rural village, whose daily struggle leaves no time for play.
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"His wry voice and storytelling take work that is often grueling and dull and make it seem, if not always exciting, at least vividly human," Daniel Kurtz-Phelan writes in his review.
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Sharing what teachers and students have in common, such as a passion for music, a wry sense of humor or even similar values, allows teachers and students to connect and communicate better.
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On Friday the museum will host the wry Queens rapper Heems and the bass-baritone opera singer Davóne Tines, as well as choreography performed by the Sidra Bell Dance New York company.
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In 2010, Daum's second nonfiction book came out, Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House, and it solidified her position as a writer who could be wry and heartbreaking.
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Katya has come to "check if the mission still makes sense," but the guys, savoring their wry humor as if it were bourbon, know that the time for sense is long gone.
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Though he was prone to depression, and said that writing was a way of relieving his bleaker feelings, Mr. Storey had a wry sense of humor and enjoyed turning experience into anecdote.
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It's raw, vivid, precise, wry, and has managed to avoid almost all clichés (except on the track "Girlfriend" because Richman thought misspelling "G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N" was clever).
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He's joined by the clerk from the neighboring video store (Jeff Anderson), who's equally bored, and the two pass the time by contemplating the mundane with wry wit and plenty of swearing.
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Krauthammer, who in 1972 was left paralyzed from the neck down after a swimming pool accident while attending Harvard Medical School, was known for a dour expression, wry humor and sharp intellect.
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When the first launch weather forecast cited only a 20% chance of visibility, I shrugged in wry acceptance—after all, I have lots of practice, as fog has dominated every launch I've experienced.
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But her interview is so full of wry insights and delightful banter — with everyone from her landscape architect to Tilda Swinton — that her turn as Anastasia Steele seems to recede far from view.
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Brady, a fast-talking chemist in his late 210s who sports a graying buzz cut and rimless glasses, has a wry, self-deprecating humor that belies the single-minded determination of his quest.
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McLean and Gunn also use the office setting to poke a little stiff fun at corporate culture, especially with a wry gag involving a chipper company-boosting presentation activated at an inopportune moment.
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" Even funnier are the wry descriptions, like when the audience is told that Tate's dean is so dignified that he never married, "for fear his wife would call him by his first name.
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The singer is savvy and wry, he talks quickly, words rippling into one another, occupying the same tonal range as Butt-Head—although our conversation is notably lacking wisecracks about boobs and boners.
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But he makes an appropriate narrator, alternately wry and solemn, in the fashion of Serling's spin on a strange man who arrives from outside of time and space to comment on the action.
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If he was the nation's Zola, Mr Eka is shaping up to be its Murakami: approaching social concerns at an angle rather than head-on, with hefty doses of surrealism and wry humour.
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Johnson's film tends toward wry comedy, though it sometimes spills over into sitcom wackiness: Shannon portrays Elvis as sincere and savvy in some ways, but completely out of touch with reality in others.
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In this valuable retrospective from the Downtown Chamber Players, there's a chance to hear his "Hot Sonate" for saxophone and piano, his wry String Quartet No. 73 and a selection of piano music.
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Even "Monkey Gone to Heaven," one of the Pixies' most dramatic and bone-stirring songs, looks upon the boiling of the earth with grim acceptance and maybe even a wry smile, not fear.
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His songwriting evinced not just a keen eye for narrative detail but also an unerring ear for spoken vernacular and a wry, existentialist bent akin to that of Kris Kristofferson or John Prine.
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"I create shows for people who like to put things in their mouth to see what they taste like," she said with a wry smile, describing her goal to create a visceral experience.
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A year ago, Ciccariello-Maher tweeted a wry joke -- "All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide" -- in the vein of the self-critical "That's so white" meme now popular among Blue Americans.
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Diderot has such an engaging aura in his writing that an idealized Fragonard portrait of a reader at work—open collar, wigless, bright-eyed and wry—was, until 2012, falsely identified as Diderot.
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She published only three slim collections of her wry, chatty, alarmingly wise short stories: " The Little Disturbances of Man " (1959), " Enormous Changes at the Last Minute " (1974), and " Later the Same Day " (1985).
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Billy's great ambition is to be a writer, and he sets out to achieve his dream almost immediately, leaving behind a friend, Margo (a genially wry Hannah Elless), who secretly pines for him.
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But Legend managed to turn that negative into a positive, in a wry text that said maybe Kanye could at least mention Legend has a new single out while he's at it. pic.twitter.
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I'm terrible at it, but it's a lot like being witty: It's all about the ability to come up with something coy as an instant come-back, often accompanied by a wry smile.
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The wry simplicity of these pieces seems to poke fun of the idea of the mountain as something monumental, reduced to line on wood and the corner of a blanket in each case.
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Lily Collins stars as the wry, 20-year-old Ellen, who can reel off calorie counts without hesitation and who's spent most of her life in and out of various anorexia treatment centers.
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Forrest doesn't talk much, or display much emotion — his range of feeling runs from mild concern to wry amusement — but he has a touch of poetry to him, and an old-fashioned courtliness.
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Written in a span of weeks preceding the author's death, at 61, from melanoma-related brain cancer, "Dying" is wry, devastating, and ultimately liberating in its unapologetic discussions of what's generally considered undiscussable.
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The Irishman is lively and wry and very funny, but at times it also feels like a confession, a plea for grace, not just from its protagonist but also from the filmmaker himself.
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Several famous scenes from the movie are more or less filmed anew before us; the digital video is dazzlingly pristine, and it's fun to watch the wry comic impersonations of the original performances.
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Directed by the Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner with a detachment more professorial than wry, "Little Joe" manages to exert a peculiar pull in spite of being constructed with material you've likely seen elsewhere.
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Though sharp as a tack, he is not an imposing presence, has a slightly whiny voice and engages in the sort of wry humor that is appreciated mainly on the island of Manhattan.
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In the past week, Lauren Naturale, a onetime college English instructor who writes the Merriam-Webster tweets, has become a media darling thanks to her wry and pointed posts, which include playful badinage.
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" Like so many Trevor stories, this one is about loss and diminishment but ends with a moment of wry understanding and forgiveness: "Belle would win in the end because the living always do.
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The poet's weariness with white male supremacy and female labor comes through perfectly in the wry face of Julia: "I wish you were a beer/ instead of a colorblind mansplainer," reads one meme.
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And nowhere does this sly, dry, wry sense of humor shine more than on Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner, a delightful show on VH1 featuring Martha Stewart and her new best friend, Snoop Dogg.
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The team is led by Brett Kirby, the lead physiologist in the Nike Sport Research Lab, who has '70s throwback sideburns and a wry, languorous manner that reminds me of surfers I have known.
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Written by author Tim Federle, the Tequila Mockingbird Kit is a miniature version of his best-selling book of the same name, which is a witty and wry commentary on popular novels and booze.
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But seen as a narrative that constantly operates on both an adventure level and a meta-level, as a functional thriller and a satire of its own genre, it's a stunningly smart, wry project.
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Whether or not I am able to confirm a wry irony in his smile, or an element of performance in his earnestness, standing in an elevator with Shia LaBeouf was worthy of my time.
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" In a wry tone, in which she assumes the persona of a woman who wants to murder her husband, Crampton-Brophy wrote, "Divorce is expensive, and do you really want to split your possessions?
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Hlinason's story is intriguing because he's quite literally an Icelandic sheep farmer turned NBA prospect, and he has a wry charm and a way of making his far-away story feel much less distant.
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He raps with a clear-eyed lyricism that any old-school head could appreciate and a wry directness that young skater kids and message-board nerds alike can yell along with as they mosh.
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Jillian Bellovary, a wry young numerical cosmologist at Queensborough Community College and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, coded some of the first black holes, putting them into GASOLINE in 2008.
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Astute internet commentators have characterized that shift as being encapsulated in a trend in our collective internet proclivities away from cats (cynical, wry, highly conditional love) and toward dogs (wholesome, pure, highly unconditional love).
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Triple J Unearthed profiles the Melbourne songwriter as a lover of "cats, Coopers Sparkling, and her blue 1999 Corolla", and her wry self-deprecation has made her a champion of the local music scene.
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Still recovering at home in Los Angeles, an upbeat and wry Fisher exclusively opened up to People's Elizabeth Leonard about how the chaos onstage was nothing compared to the bedlam swirling in her head.
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Mr. Méndez brings a fiery sense of an embattled soul to his performance as the conflicted priest, and Ms. Lopez inflects her lines with some wry humor, as Martina waffles between cogency and senility.
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Pittman, who has worked at The Tampa Bay Times since 1989, is a walking museum, the type of wry newshound whose marrow-deep knowledge of place used to be indispensable to America's major dailies.
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His essay pivots from a wry exploration of the life of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who passed for black and became president of a local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., to more harrowing themes.
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While the story certainly skirts (if not embraces) sentimentality and the overripeness of melodrama, the production's soft-hued style — and the sometimes wry tone of Mr. Martin's book — keeps it from curdling into treacle.
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He was thoroughly decent and always respectful — well, maybe not always, as he has a wry sense of humor and loves to poke fun, even at himself, often followed by a choppy, contagious laugh.
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Sure, the screenshot was bullshit, a wry joke that really shouldn't be believable but actually seems pretty standard when the president is a racist, misogynistic trash fire in a shitty, off-the-rack suit.
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Despite his earnest persona on television, he is known to possess a wry sense of humor, even occasionally brandishing impressions from old movies such as "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" to lighten the mood.
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In "The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 16003," a wide-ranging book published in 21600, Professor Crosby examined in pithy, sometimes wry prose how disease had devastated indigenous populations after Columbus landed.
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Listen: What emerges when the wry, mystic Sturgill Simpson writes the title track for "The Dead Don't Die," the new Jim Jarmusch zombie comedy, is an elegant, elegiac hard-country song, writes Jon Caramanica.
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Critic's Pick MILAN — In the middle of Samuel Beckett's bleak but endlessly wry play "Endgame," a character tells a joke about a man who goes to the tailor to get a pair of pants.
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Wiseman's ode to life in a by-most-accounts-idyllic community-run town very succinctly captures the coastal Maine way — a wry French-Canadian frankness in the face of the tiresome forces of nature.
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The allegations were made by an anonymous tipster who called himself Pete Williams, a wry reference to a former senator from New Jersey, Harrison "Pete" Williams, who was convicted in 1981 of taking bribes.
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The same thing happens to Tsemel, who describes with wry apathy the various death threats and curses she's received over the decades from people who believe she has crawled into bed with the Devil.
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Breaking the movie into distinct acts, Anderson weaves in an abundance of wry humor, such as Goldblum's character always having some titillating new gossip to share that he's picked up via the dog grapevine.
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Trained as an actor, Ellis reveals that pedigree in wry winks to Shakespeare (the butcher's name is Titus) and dramatis personae evocative of commedia dell'arte (a foppish suitor, a predatory doctor, a dashing lover).
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The band and the bursts of perfect, wry pop-garage-punk they peddle have been around for close to two decades—long enough for their teenage kicks to have lil' kicks of their own.
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They shared a certain wry tone, yet Mr. Elliott was less demonstrative, an even-keeled stoic with none of the kinetic anxiety that was standard for many of the great comics of the 20th century.
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Welcome to China's most polluted city 'APEC blue' In 2014, Internet users coined the wry term "APEC blue" for the capital's clear skies during the two-week gathering of world leaders during the APEC summit.
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A phenom on the snow, the 22-year-old Shiffrin can be wry, silly and self-deprecating in conversation, quick to reassure reporters she very much is not that famous — despite her history-making wins.
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At a certain point, as the indie feature mutated into the mid-budget Oscar film, it became synonymous with an earnest drama (or sometimes a wry comedy) about the strivings and sufferings of white people.
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New features attract polite interest at best, and sometimes jokes (Nokia's plans for a five-camera phone, for example, have drawn wry comparisons with razor-makers' penchant for adding ever more blades to their products).
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" In the exclusive clip above, the group agrees on a vintage-cool makeover, with Thornton lending the perfect teaser for what's to come with his signature wry delivery: "What if you did a retro thing . . .
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In one video, a woman who appears to be wearing a burqa whips around to reveal a nun's habit — and a sign reading, "No burqa," a wry comment on France's ban on conservative Muslim dress.
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" In return, he not only puts his full support behind the prince's regency, but he also lets out the funniest single "Ha!" in response to her wry statement that she's "far too busy to die.
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When dad (Kevin Kline) sets out to sell the family home in New York, Dean flees to Los Angeles in denial, and distracts himself with a crush on a wry stranger named Nicky (Gillian Jacobs).
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And in doing so it provides the most successful account of famous men on fictionalized adventures since Measuring the World, Daniel Kehlmann's wry, brilliant account of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt's bisecting careers.
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Their ranks include take-no-shit matriarch Maya (Minnie Driver), lackadaisical yes man dad Jimmy (John Ross Bowie), twitchy son Ray (Mason Cook), bully-adjacent daughter Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), and wry teen J.J. (Micah Fowler).
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Still, one Weibo user with tongue firmly in cheek worried that the soybeans might get seasick, while another offered the beans some wry advice on how to avoid getting snarled up in the deepening row.
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" Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, said Ms. Handler's willingness to inject herself into unfamiliar situations and bring a wry humor to these explorations suggested she could carry a show more expansive than "Chelsea Lately.
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With wry humor and wonder, Spillman beautifully captures the deadpan hedonism of the East Berliners and the city's sense of infinite possibility, which, to his frustration, never quite imbues him with his own artistic compulsion.
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"I came here to see if I was condemned to death," said a wry George Odongo Ogola, 183, a retired high school principal being treated for prostate cancer at the M.P. Shah Hospital in Nairobi.
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The downside of having parents "going through their puberty at the same time I was," Ms. Rosenberg said with a wry grimace, was that no one was protecting her, or teaching her to protect herself.
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He is armed with wry humor and iron-jawed stoicism, but the battler — the archetypal Australian male — is uniquely ill equipped to serve as a role model for a millennium that demands compassion and humanity.
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In fact, it was the first song they ever wrote together — which might explain why it still feels so fresh in its depiction of the whirling instability of jealousy combined with wry, detached self-awareness.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ATHENS — The sixth edition of the Athens Biennale opened to a melody of wry subversion, second-rate accelerationist aesthetics, and objectionable tactics of overidentification that peaked in the 63s.
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Each square panel depicts wry amalgams of natural and human-made objects, such as a crystal shard with earmuffs or a geode dangling from a parachute with a cassette tape jutting out from the rock.
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Mr. Wurtz's indoor sculpture tends toward wry conjunctions of unassuming materials, including the kinds of flimsy plastic shopping bags that festoon so many urban trees, unintended ornaments to which these interloping "Kitchen Trees" nod happily.
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While thoughtful and armed with a wry sense of humor, he sometimes carries a grim air about him — as if he is carrying a boulder on his shoulder when he steps into the batter's box.
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It was Olbermann — the anchor whose five-year stint at ESPN's "SportsCenter" helped bring a wry, freewheeling humor to sports news — who answered the question of what a fiery liberal television commentator might look like.
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In the same way that Olbermann's work alongside Dan Patrick on "SportsCenter" created a generation of highlights shows and sportscasters following their wry, geeky style, the work Olbermann did on MSNBC birthed its own replacements.
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While "The Gentlemen" is infrequently laugh-out-loud funny, there's a wry spirit running through it, and a very knowing sense of movie conventions (including a movie within the movie riff) woven into the narrative.
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"They have sharp suits and coiffed hair, and they don't speak like me," he said in a heavy Liverpudlian accent, with a wry smile and a roll of his eyes towards his own bald scalp.
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Kaveh Akbar's poems in "Calling a Wolf a Wolf" are about drinking and stopping drinking, and darkness, and fetishizing darkness, and also ultimately about delight — and they are so weird and wry about it all.
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Instead, it's a mix of timeworn genre elements (the master detective, complete with tweed suit; Hitchcockian red herrings), wry costume details (Evans' sweaters, Curtis's pantsuits), political commentary (particularly as concerns WASPy liberalism), and star power.
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She found her earliest audience there, posting dozens and dozens of found images whose only connection was that they spoke, in aggregate, to her peculiar intelligence, wry sense of humor and damaged sense of glamour.
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