" He responded, wryly, "That's a very, um, good question.
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"The whole world's rooting against the Patriots," he noted wryly.
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"Oh, deeply so," she said, affecting a wryly elegant tone.
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"A round costume for a round person," she said, wryly.
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"And she had some extra supplemental help," Moras adds, wryly.
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"That's the way the art world works," he answered wryly.
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"I see my children only on Saturdays," he says wryly.
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"Inspiration," he said wryly, through a cloud of cigarette smoke.
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Stenson laughed wryly when the story was relayed to him.
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"And to get security briefings sounds interesting," he added wryly.
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"It was all part of the plan," he said, wryly.
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"Oh, we break up households all the time!" she remarks wryly.
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"We won't be sailing to Westeros anytime soon," Tyrion observes, wryly.
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"I congratulate whoever came up with that question," he added wryly.
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"These days I've been rehabilitated a bit," Ms Stötzer says wryly.
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"I understand artists' egos all too well," Ms. Dunham wryly notes.
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Another was more glaring: "Black girl, plus harp," she said wryly.
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"There's still time," Mr. Krauss said wryly, and they both laughed.
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"The East Village is no longer cool," my mom wryly observed.
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"Oh no, we're not using that word anymore," she said wryly.
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"What I foresee," Mr. Feiffer offered wryly, "is a glamorous future."
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"Right in line with our demographic, I guess," responds Lars, wryly.
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"Put the tip in and don't push too hard," Martha says wryly.
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" A newspaper editorial observed wryly, "Or we could just stick with toast.
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"Enormous damage has been done by travel literature," the narrator states wryly.
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In the next breath, though, Ms. Dunn wryly braced for more incoming.
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"It wasn't like, 'Don't anybody call me Don,'" Mr. Cheadle recalled wryly.
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"As should have Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Harvey, Irma, Florence," he added wryly.
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"I may be overly sensitive to the clothing issue," he said wryly.
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"I think people really like getting replies on Twitter," she says wryly.
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"That was the beginning of my life in film," Mekas wryly adds.
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Plus, it takes time to change people's minds, Mr. Silverstein added, wryly.
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"We're learning to live side-by-side," Candice's mother Marie said wryly.
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" Klobuchar replied wryly: "I wish everyone was as perfect as you, Pete.
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"Just be like Norway," he added wryly, drawing laughs from the crowd.
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"We're never going to beat you people, are we?" she asks wryly.
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In an interview Tuesday, Barton smiled wryly when asked about the incident.
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"I feared the marriage wouldn't last, and it didn't," she said, smiling wryly.
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"You know, one of those things can disrupt your breakfast," Woodward said wryly.
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It "was not an equinox tide," conceded François Ruffin, an FI deputy, wryly.
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Afterwards, one noted wryly that the whole event felt like "Davos in reverse".
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"If you think you have inherited trauma, you have it," Yehuda says, wryly.
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"I never got a callback," he said wryly in an interview last week.
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He casts a stern impression, but you can hear an eyebrow wryly raised.
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" When a few women shouted, he responded wryly: "No, this is like 1912.
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"I'm watching for American missiles to come over the horizon," he said wryly.
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" Trump, turning to May, said wryly, "This was your choice of a question?
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When asked if she still wanted to be lieutenant governor, she responded wryly.
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" But the pair's website wryly notes, the photo series' "whole milieu is quite German.
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"Its like Microsoft 360: they've got it all covered," remarked a BNP follower wryly.
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But what starts as wryly funny symbolism gradually expands to take over the film.
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Merciana eyes me wryly before presenting me with an enormous bowl of vindaloo masala.
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Evans once even wryly suggested that he created — or anticipated — the Pop Art movement.
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Some of this charge comes from his rhythmic and sometimes wryly coded editing style.
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But as one other customer noted wryly: You can always turn off the TV.
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"Then they predicted that we wouldn't make it to the debate," she said wryly.
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Mitski can be wryly amusing in person, as she sometimes is in her songs.
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" Zelda taunts her sister as "inimitable, impeccable Ava" and asks wryly, "Having fun yet?
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And as Guy crashes back into the underbrush, Mulder wryly smiles: "Likewise," he says.
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Their efforts, Mr Blanchette wryly notes, are akin to those of American climate-change deniers.
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"It turns out that a graphomaniac is an exceptionally satisfying research subject," she comments wryly.
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"I'm so high up in the company now, I can't see anything," he commented wryly.
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" Laura Moser of Slate has wryly noted, "None of the candidates are talking about education.
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This material not only proves "that Shakespeare was Shakespeare," as Ms. Wolfe wryly put it.
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She once said, wryly, that it "hurts my feelings" to hear people find her unlikable.
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" He laughs, noting wryly that "the millennial midlife crisis will be one for the ages.
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He can cower shamefully during a ninja attack or comment wryly on off-script developments.
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" With polls showing a tight vote, however, he said wryly, "you really need the manpower.
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It has also helped raise awareness of what Mr. Guggenheim wryly described as "challenging" films.
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Diplomats note wryly that its two civilian representatives were not even introduced at the table.
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" Damon then turned to DiCaprio, 41, and added wryly: "And Leo – we weren't cold at all.
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Samuel L. Jackson has a tendency to wryly deliver one-liners before pulling some badass move.
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His only reference to Kasich was to wryly ask the reporters if he was still running.
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But on at least one point, Clinton said wryly, the U.S. has yet to catch up.
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Elias remains seated, moving only to raise his cup to his lips again, and smile wryly.
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He added, wryly, that he was "deeply offended" that they hadn't taken any of his CDs.
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"The garden is a popular destination for family day trips," the Atlas Obscura editors wryly note.
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Before searching for a needle, investigators said wryly, they first had to build their own haystack.
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" She added, wryly, "Geno is a very good coach, and he's a clever coach as well.
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He presses the issue, wryly, or, rather, in a tone that he believes to be wry.
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"Some of these children," Ms. Rossellini noted wryly, "don't even know where an egg comes from."
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"I have spent the last 20 years of my life with Michael Bloomberg," she said wryly.
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"I would say that almost every reaction to that album was correct," Mr. Evans said wryly.
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"In the last few years, I've come back to the mainland too often," he said wryly.
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Joissin noted wryly that Raymond was ''not afraid to not be popular and to not be liked.
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Thinking back, he recalled wryly how he was mocked in 2017 for talking up a French renaissance.
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That's especially true if it can continue wryly using the past to effectively comment on the present.
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The feeling that I.B.M. was hoping to inspire, Amdahl noted wryly, was " FUD "—fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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"We've learned that a lot of people have listened to Chris Milk's TED Talk," Ogle said wryly.
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He was even better in Gone Girl, in a role that wryly played off his public persona.
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" As Brinkley wryly puts it it, this "seems to get a little too carried away with itself.
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One Twitter user wryly noted that the party was now in the capitalist business of exploiting workers.
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"I don't think there's anything pejorative about 'schmoozing' in the context of business," Mr. Kassan said wryly.
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"The President was never on 'Millionaire,' " Davies said, wryly, as though the question has come up before.
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Leiber wryly dismissed the notion that she was an artist; museum directors and gallery owners thought otherwise.
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Rather, Kinsley is intent on being wryly realistic about coping with illness and the terminal prospects ahead.
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Our president eagerly — and wryly — awaits advice from the experts who were unable to solve the problem.
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You might wryly applaud your boo for changing that diaper, but that's behavior you also wholeheartedly endorse.
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Though he can laugh wryly about it now, the homophobia Jay faced as a teen left its mark.
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She wryly remarked that the case was being handled with unusual speediness by Venezuela's infamously slow legal system.
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She's smiling wryly as she tells me that this is "actually a dressy day" because her socks match.
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"The main job for a French prime minister is not to upstage the president," says one observer wryly.
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Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole on Sunday voiced his support -- and wryly offered career advice to Phelps.
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After Mr. Garber's bid for Connecticut state treasurer faltered — he was "the silver medalist," he noted wryly — Gov.
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"The part of the business that is not going particularly well is the profitability part," he added wryly.
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My children slept upstairs while the tally mounted, and when I got to the end I smiled wryly.
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"I don't want to disturb the media narrative too much," he said wryly, with his unmistakable Brooklyn inflection.
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"Don't need VAR to see that go over the bar," Lineker commented wryly of Cueva's now infamous effort.
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A modern-day Uncle Sam, pointing at the viewer constitutes a piece wryly titled I Need a Hero.
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Critics were quick to label Ho's style as linglei , meaning "alternative," a designation that she finds wryly amusing.
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" Stepping back from the camera, Mr. Avalos referred wryly to the movie he was filming as "Project Unemployment.
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" On "Halls of Sarah," Ms. Case adds wryly: "You see our poets/do an odious business/loving womankind.
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"In the end of the game, what Pauline Kael promoted wasn't film," the filmmaker Paul Schrader says, wryly.
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" A former Trump aide, meanwhile, when asked about Bannon's future, replied wryly, "Time of death: 1:20 p.m.
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"We used to look to Poland as an example; now they look to us," observes a Belarusian ecologist wryly.
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The actor and comedian joked wryly that Black would be trying to helped disgraced former Today host Matt Lauer.
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"There were so many perks to being 'white' in a black family, I can't even front," Noah wryly observes.
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"The city that poisoned its people," Bryn Mickle, editor of The Flint Journal, wryly quotes Flint's unofficial new tagline.
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As he returned to his locker to grab another bottle of solution, he smiled and joked wryly about it.
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"I'm insane, you idiot," David explains wryly, seconds before a room's worth of people get psychically microwaved (or something!).
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" Barry Bennett, a senior adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign, wryly noted that "no one has ever restrained Donald Trump.
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" Wryly, she adds: "Just because it's a male game doesn't mean I'm not privy to the cheat-codes, too.
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As the revealer wryly notes, since we're solving these names on the diagonal, we're working ON A SLIDING SCALE.
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"We like say that we are so poor that even the mafia isn't interested in us," she said, wryly.
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Where the fuck, I thought wryly as I looked on, is a Special Forces solider when you need him?
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That, too, quickly became a matter of public record, as Spieth wryly noted in a news conference this year.
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Like Cusack's Rob, she addresses the camera directly in knowing asides, at turns taciturn and sexy and wryly funny.
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But she also noted wryly that the restaurant's most popular menu items are things like whale cutlets and croquettes.
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Asked what more we have to learn about the disease, Guidone of the Center for Endometriosis Care laughs wryly.
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The project was born from Zador's frustration during his "day job" as a neurophysiologist, as he wryly referred to it.
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On Tuesday night Hannity mocked the news and attacked her — wryly pointing out that he doesn't host debates on Fox.
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Abedin wryly noted to Vogue that their cohort — women who found themselves married to alleged predators — isn't all that small.
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"I was like, 'Hey, maybe that'll help,'" she recalled thinking wryly before she left her home for the last time.
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Over the next months he looked on wryly as the grand vision was slowly trashed and key figures were indicted.
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"Of course we get to see a black hole before a Brexit deal," wryly remarked journalist Claire Barthelemy on Twitter.
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As he sang wryly on the final notes of "Blackstar": "I can't give everything away, I can't give everything away".
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" He listed them wryly: "I am a pacifist, I am an anarchist, I am a planetary citizen, and so on.
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"Maybe Mueller needs to investigate himself for obstruction on Flynn like he did my client," the former mayor said wryly.
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"If someone's data has to be breached, breach the poor person because there's lower chance of repercussion," he said wryly.
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Rauschenberg revered de Kooning's genius but plainly had it in for his reputation, as it seems de Kooning wryly understood.
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"We need to stop talking about diversity like it's a category: romcoms, thrillers… diverse," Yomi wryly says, before pausing, exasperated.
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Ms. Kelly wryly suggested that she and her husband, Douglas Brunt, dress up in inoffensive costumes: letters of the alphabet.
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Speaking by phone on Tuesday from Virginia, where he is based, Mr. Levin spoke admiringly, if wryly, about Mr. Trump.
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Ms. Piper sustains a dangerous, seesawing tension between the familiar, wryly civilized surface and the primal agony that swallows selfhood.
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R. Karen Tei Yamashita contends with the Western canon in this astute, pitch-perfect, and wryly funny short story collection.
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Sodi and Williams are both stubborn enough that they "try not to be together in the kitchen," Sodi says wryly.
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A Sky television modem, we're wryly informed midway through a litany of far more terrible disasters, has not yet arrived.
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"Didn't expect that reaction, but that's OK," Trump said wryly, scoring the loudest response from the crowd of global representatives.
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LONDON — Wrapped in a turban and a mink-lined robe, the old man sits in his opulent home, smiling wryly.
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It does, however, acknowledge the art's inaccessibility in a wryly hilarious "promotional" video made with actors Will Ferrell and Joel McHale.
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Despite their straightforwardness, however, these three songs are also wryly knowing in a way that makes them quintessential Charli XCX tracks.
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As Mr Asness wryly notes, there is a pinch of "we're losing because everyone else is an idiot" to all this.
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"In my experience, the marriage between rock'n'roll and any kind of symphonic form always ends in disaster," he says, chuckling wryly.
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Reggie has to undergo mandatory counseling, but as he wryly notes, the school should've given the security guard a shrink instead.
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"I know everyone thinks we suck and you know, can't win any games," Brady wryly commented after the 248-27 blowout.
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And they both wryly follow, with adult eyes, the glee of a bunch of children discovering a new purpose in life.
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Of course, Cuadros notes wryly, the winners in this rigged race to the top cannot help believing in their own merits.
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Take Daniel M. Oppenheimer's wryly titled article Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems With Using Long Words Needlessly.
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Watching food preparation in a cavernous, bustling restaurant in Suzhou, Antonioni wryly admits that it was the Chinese who invented fettuccine.
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" He said wryly, "When I get pushback sometimes from people, I suggest they might have an unhealthy relationship with the material.
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His wryly titled "Hymn of Brays" was written from the point of view of the donkey that carried Jesus into Jerusalem.
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"I have accused Lydia of marrying me to get even, but she asserts it was pure masochism," Professor Deutsch wryly recalled.
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He also joked wryly about the advice he gave his successor, Mick Mulvaney: "Run for it," Mr. Kelly said, to laughter.
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But many residents scoffed at the announcement, wryly noting that they have been suffering far more extended blackouts during the last week.
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The exhibit lifts its wryly ponderous title, Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order, from an eponymous treatise by the Enlightenment philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
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" Appearing alongside Mr. Rushdie at a literary panel in New York in 19453, Mr. Eco wryly chose to read from "Foucault's Pendulum.
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When Wednesday wryly observes that America remains a nation without one cohesive identity, it's very much the Old World in him talking.
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"At least now I'm well-informed about what to eat and not eat if I ever do have diabetes," he said wryly.
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It's comic, swooping and burbling with jaunty momentum, inhabiting a wryly amused feel somewhere between Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Dr. Seuss.
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" She turned to the other hurdlers and set an order, then turned back and wryly smiled, "Too bad the Russians aren't here.
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" She notes, almost wryly: "My dear close friend Clay Aiken came in second, so I shouldn't talk too much s— about it.
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"I know everyone likes going for the French toast ingredients, but you're supposed to look for canned food," Mr. Roth said wryly.
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"Piercing" also leads up to a wryly funny punch line that made this viewer a little more forgiving of its plentiful affectations.
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This exhibition was sparked in part by Leo Lionni's 1976 Parallel Botany, which wryly chronicles a fictional history of studying imaginary plants.
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But, as chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer wryly observes, there is a point at which success is a bit of a mixed blessing.
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Though several of those critics said wryly that the lesser note would aptly symbolize that women still earn less than men on average.
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Tormund Giantsbane was sent to Easwatch, along with other wilding warriors, and he wryly jokes that the wildlings are now the Night's Watch.
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It is also, he notes wryly, "a physically domineering crop"—something that is made clear as he plunges through a densely packed plot.
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Haberman wryly called the feature "a thoughts and prayers autoresponder," a phrase that resonated with more than 213,213 people who liked her tweet.
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"Tom Steyer was stuck in this elevator and they had to call the police," Ms. Pelosi said, wryly, as her mother looked on.
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During conversations over two days last month — edited excerpts are below — he was preternaturally calm, consistently forthright, reflexively self-aware, and wryly funny.
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Kruger became known for her groundbreaking art, which wryly criticized consumerism, all while maintaining the same Futura Bold Oblique font and color scheme.
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"The news could quote the wrong source of information," said the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, adding wryly, "or may be fake news".
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Even Alain Juppé, another centre-right hopeful, turned up, though the balding former prime minister conceded wryly that his own needs were minimal.
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The passage concerns a sort of love — maybe Team Cox/Rathvon were thinking a bit wryly of Valentine's Day, maybe it's just coincidence.
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The inescapable contradictions of a Cold War-era tour of Leningrad and Moscow in the mid-1950s were chronicled wryly by Truman Capote.
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"Usually it's one person with a bumpy head" surrounded by humans, but that won't be the case this time around, he noted wryly. 4.
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At that moment, Shkreli grinned broadly at an FBI agent sitting at the prosecution's table, who then smiled back wryly, seemingly acknowledging the moment.
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I think there's a bit of that in him, but when Musk isn't talking grand plans, he can be warm and even wryly funny.
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"It is a bit different," Lieutenant Colonel Catie Hague wryly tells PEOPLE, acknowledging that her husband's forthcoming adventure sounds a little, well, out there.
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She comes across the ruins of an old sawmill, for example, noting—somewhat wryly—that the park built over it is called Sawmill Park.
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Libertarian presidential nominee wryly suggested that the United States and the Syrian regime share an equal amount of blame in the deaths of civilians.
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"Survivor" was addictively entertaining, and audiences loved-to-hate the wryly devious Richard the way they did Tony Soprano and, before him, J.R. Ewing.
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Trying to defuse the tension, Mr. Maher wryly suggested to Mr. Yiannopoulos that he shouldn't be so quick to spar with his fellow panelists.
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"And we choose works that are not too long," she said wryly, sounding not unlike a mother telling her children to finish their spinach.
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"I really appreciate how enthusiastic your media are," the European Council president Donald Tusk said wryly, addressing Mr. el-Sisi, The Associated Press reported.
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Artist Ava Nirui decided to riff on this idea via a series of thoroughly ordinary items, wryly reimagined with the addition of highly recognizable logos.
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UNLIKE a helicopter, aeroplanes are inclined to fly, Harry Reasoner, a veteran American newsman, wryly observed after watching choppers in action during the Vietnam war.
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Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Monday interrupted her stump speech involuntarily in a coughing spell -- and wryly blamed the incident on GOP rival Donald Trump.
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But Season 2 of the YouTube series is, if anything, better than the first -- a teen soap, largely, which also packs a wryly nostalgic kick.
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" She smiled wryly and said, "I had this sense that coming to the Beautiful Country"—the literal translation of "America" in Chinese—"was my blessing.
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"The only reason I can still function is that I don't have that much work to do," the 22008-year-old winemaker wryly tells me.
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To expand his modest income — "from zero to something," he said wryly — he started writing parody books on commission for the Philadelphia publisher Quirk Books.
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The result is an indulgent escapade that features Nye and her crew using their own campiness to wryly spoof pop culture's long legacy of chauvinism.
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During an exchange with a courtroom sketch artist days after opening arguments, Shkreli wryly referred to himself as "Rain Man," saying he doesn't forget anything.
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Ms. Malone wryly describes it as "self-medicating with money," and for her it started the day after Donald Trump was elected to the presidency.
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He looks often to be both unwaveringly self-assured and wryly amused, so at ease in a hunch-shouldered awkwardness that he seems almost debonair.
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" Asked whether Fed officials were delivering a coordinated message, Mr. Fischer responded wryly, "If there has been a conscious effort, I'm about to join it.
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"It's all speculative at this point," he said, alluding wryly to Mr. Trump's penchant for abrupt announcements at all hours of the day and night.
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But Puppies Puppies wryly satirizes selfie culture by highlighting a viral image too gross, embarrassing, and fetishized to want to be in a photo with.
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" Oscar Wilde wryly remarked of Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop": "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
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When the ref raised the Greek's blue-gloved hand at the end, Santai owner Nik smiled wryly and conceded Fani was the stronger of the two.
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" For his part, Kimmel wryly noted that the show was being watched in the U.S., as well as "more than 225 countries that now hate us.
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The alternative is to become a spacefaring and multiplanetary species, "which I hope you would agree that is the right way to go," Musk said wryly.
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" He wryly added, "Clearly deficient at the art of the deal, the poor man had to settle at the lowly title of 'Father of his Country.
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" Breitbart was not impressed, wryly noting, "It is not clear how many children the members of the Harvard Republican Club, who are all undergraduates, are raising.
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HanSeoul-Oh (Sung Kang) is a wryly philosophical drift racer from Tokyo who proved so popular that the franchise literally brought him back from the dead.
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"The Spurs drafted Tim Duncan when they already had David Robinson, and that worked out pretty well for them," a Stars front office member noted wryly.
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" As the doctor was performing the girl's operation, a nearby demon wryly explained, "This woman honestly believes she's providing a service all because of women's rights.
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"I honestly went from this lost soul to being a follower of the second coming of Christ, so that's a pretty big promotion," she laughs wryly.
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Novelist Tom Perrotta's books have become one of our most consistently enjoyable dissections of a very specific sort of America — upper-class, wryly comic, and white.
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Dean is wryly funny at times, often in bits surrounding the melancholy little comic panels its protagonist draws to express feelings he can't or won't verbalize.
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It is Mona who serves as our wryly neutral narrator, sliding briefly and fluidly out of the action to place us on timelines and annotate references.
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Republicans wryly noted that Democrats admitted they had conferred with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, over the weekend about their hearing strategy.
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"For sure, before next year, I will know," he said wryly, before making a swift exit from his press briefing, and returning to his racing preparations.
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As he is speaking, two men who the group says have been picking pockets for weeks stroll past and, upon recognising Mr Dei Rossi, smile wryly.
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"It's not good to make money off the sick," he said wryly in the hospital in Okulovka, a town of about 2229,261 people north of Moscow.
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Outside the Biennale, another young Turkish artist, Asli Cavusoglu, has produced a subtle and wryly engaged response to the Erdogan government's imprisonment of journalists and writers.
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Mr. Nichols published an autobiography, wryly called "Feeling You're Behind," in 1984; in 2000 he published the entertainingly acerbic diaries he kept from 1969 to 1977.
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"The average woman in America spends five years trying to get pregnant and 30 years trying not to," Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, told me wryly.
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It has been around "since before I was born", Mr Katyal noted wryly, and only now do we see a "creative" lawsuit that "looks anything like this".
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Yet it was "a struggle to claim leadership of a hologram", as General Sir Richard Barrons, former commander of Britain's joint forces, noted wryly at the time.
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" Six decades ago, in his seminar on economic thought, Professor Jacob Viner of Princeton University wryly noted that "none of this literature was written by poor people.
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Snapchat Is Becoming Like the Internet It Disdains Shira Ovide wryly notes that Snap is reversing course on many of the things that made its business distinctive.
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"[Microsoft] might have found some things that would have made their day a lot better yesterday if they just thought a little about it," Dubbin said wryly.
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The Democratic strategist who requested anonymity noted wryly that the statistician and forecaster Nate Silver had recently put the chances of a Clinton victory at 79 percent.
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"We have been kicked to the four winds, and we have come back together," he said, looking wryly around the room at the more recent New Yorkers.
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She was 28, a brunet ingénue from English stock, raised in what she has wryly called "the most aristocratic village in the prune belt" of Northern California.
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" The cliché has become so pervasive, Franken wryly notes, that when he dies, his obituary will surely be titled "No Joke: Former Three-Term Dead at 93.
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But, as he wryly notes, he had to suspend his reading to answer her, and while answering had kept his place in his book with his finger.
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A student from Pakistan remarked wryly that Sor Juana had the right idea because once she became a nun, people probably stopped introducing her to eligible bachelors.
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This is in large part because Gelsey Bell, the production's Linda, has a silky yet focused voice that securely handles Mr. Ashley's rush of wryly absurdist text.
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Just two years before that we were graced with Jen and Sylvia Soska's American Mary, a wryly gothic rape-revenge saga set in the underground body mod scene.
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Instead, the show tended to approach politicians with the same instinct it applied to uninformed people wandering down Hollywood Boulevard: wryly pointing out how stupid they could be.
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If you read through those quotes from the Pitchfork interview, nodded, laughed wryly, and then muttered something half-clever to yourself about Tillman's persona, then you'll love them.
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This week, Austria joined with many of the Balkan countries to approve a tough border policy in what some are wryly calling the return of the Hapsburg Empire.
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She suffered a two-minute coughing fit during an event in Cleveland last week, which she blamed on allergies -- and wryly put it on the shoulders of Trump.
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While Ramadan might seem like "an amazing opportunity to lose weight," as one pro-ana forum wryly dubs it, that's not to say it isn't without its challenges.
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But she manages to survive long enough to get help from a mute scavenger (Jim Carrey, whose blessed silence makes him charming and wryly funny instead of hammy).
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"Good to see some British exports are still desirable," the auctioneer Oliver Barker said wryly at Sotheby's on Tuesday night, as the painting sold to a Chinese museum.
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" Both track were recorded at San Francisco's Timeroom studios, a fact that Roach notes wryly: "The connection to then and now... emotions rediscovered and revealed after 34 years.
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A solution for the Vietnamese would cost what one congressional aide wryly referred to as "decimal dust," or, by one estimate, $35 million a year for 10 years.
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It was "certainly one of the best face-chewing scenes I can think of," Mr. Denk wrote wryly, even as he called its use of the music exploitative.
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After my warm down, Kaitlyn wryly chides me for using lotion on my body—an earlier email had instructed me not to use any for this very reason.
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In films like Purple Rain, he could turn on the smolder and charm, but he was equally capable of pivoting to a wryly amused raise of the eyebrow.
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In both "Election" and "The Abstinence Teacher," Perrotta features the perspectives of educators — and other members of the community — as he wryly plumbs the pathos of the suburbs.
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A wryly updated "fête champêtre," showing black suburbanites relaxing in a Chicago park, had just set an auction high for any work by a living African-American artist.
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Some balked at the images, believing they must be fictional, but scientists have verified most of the species depicted (with the exception, Heald wryly noted, of a mermaid).
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"If you put down wedding producer as a search term on a website, you wouldn't get any work, so for SEO purposes I'm a wedding planner," she says wryly.
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They entered an office shared by Doug Brown and David Woolley, who watched as Nimoy wryly commented on an ASCII printout (of a naked woman) taped to the wall.
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Offscreen, Moore was known for his charm and his wit, churning out cynical quips about acting and Hollywood, and frequently being wryly self-deprecating about his own acting talent.
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It could be argued that such releases (described wryly by a customer as "super-rare Disney picture discs endorsed by Metallica") at least bring new customers into record shops.
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"We're upholding Sykes-Picot borders," says one of its commanders wryly, using the shorthand for the partition of the region into various Arab states but not a Kurdish one.
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Ms. Kim is wryly funny as Cornelia, but her long speech about her mother's obsessive cooking, which for a child without enthusiasm for food was a trial, drags on.
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"If I had grown up in a respectable religious tradition, for example as a Catholic, I would probably have stuck to the faith throughout my life," he explained wryly.
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"If you visit the museum, you will want to retire either to a bar or to a church," he said wryly, and St. Paul's should serve the purpose nicely.
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With so elastic a definition, it's small wonder one British food blogger wryly identified Burger King as the first "bespoke" restaurant, because it has allowed special orders for decades.
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"If she starts holding press conference saying, 'Shame on you, Bernie Sanders,' like she said, 'Shame on you, Barack Obama,' then we might be getting there," Devine said wryly.
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Le Monde wryly noted that the Assemblée's canteen, used to doling out glasses of wine at night sessions, now had to get used to orange juice and Coca-Cola.
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The important singers with whom Mr. Baldwin partnered on concert tours inevitably attracted more attention than he did, as he wryly noted in a 1983 interview with The Times.
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"I really had a sense it was going to happen," Seattle Coach Pete Carroll said wryly after the Seahawks' 26-6 win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night.
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George Bernard Shaw is said to have wryly observed that although he saw crutches and wheelchairs at shrines of healing, he saw no artificial limbs, glass eyes or toupees.
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Lauren Garroni and Chelsea Fairless, have been wryly dissecting outfits worn on the show, exploring much more than just the iconic wardrobe choices of the SATC crew in the process.
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In response, Ben pointed out wryly that unambitious people don't usually serve in the Peace Corps and then apply to PhD programs, citing two recent turns my life had taken.
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"We're kind of in the trenches still, a little bit," Amy says wryly, but notes that at their age — he's 44, she's 36 — conversations about having children are time sensitive.
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Sung primly and properly by McCartney, the verses weave their way around before gliding into the chorus, where Lennon's wryly enunciated backup vocals entwine neatly around McCartney's swooned high note.
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The conference turned out to be "good practice for saying 'the Trump presidency' without the words getting stuck in your throat," Meg Jacobs, a research scholar at Princeton, said wryly.
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Proponents of the "Saving Jewish Jerusalem" campaign noted wryly that the schoolchildren were unlikely to be taken to Sur Baher or Issawiya, where few Israeli Jews dare venture these days.
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On Twitter, Britons wryly noted that store shelves were emptied of Marmite jars, and one used jar was put up for sale on eBay for 100,000 pounds, or about $122,000.
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After Tuesday's meeting, lawmakers said that they were surprised Mr. Trump allowed cameras to stay and some noted wryly that they had become props in his latest reality television show.
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It was a quietly shattering yet deeply satisfying evening, a study in aging, nostalgia and death pursued through ripe Respighi songs, autumnal Nadia Boulanger, changeable early Britten, wryly pained Poulenc.
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"The Mother of Us All," Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's wryly surreal Americana pageant about the struggle for women's suffrage, completes a two-weekend run in Hudson, N.Y., on Sunday.
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Mr. Ford politely debunked the hype around the friendship ("I hardly know the man," he said, wryly), but he did manage to impart a few lessons in A-list attitude.
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But the comedian's wryly clownish antics as the preening, not-especially bright owner of several fast-fashion stores are in service of a story that feels sloppy and overly broad.
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He wryly offered a "midnight pardon" for Mr. Obama for his support for the White Sox, then gave Mr. Obama a lifetime ticket good for any game at Wrigley Field.
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" Asked how stripping off one's clothing and killing an animal could communicate a message about peace, Mr. Slomka replied wryly: "I'm not even going to attempt to answer this question.
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"It is time to end the tradition in science of all-male speaking panels, sometimes wryly referred to as 'manels,'" Dr. Francis Collins wrote in an online statement this week.
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Devotees of Blake's inventive body of prior work — sculptures, performances, videos, and drawings that wryly explore themes of gender, sexuality, and race — will spot familiar motifs in these latest drawings.
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But while less resilient sorts might stay cozy at home, Katie sees icy climes as a perfect opportunity for what she has wryly dubbed "pity sales," and sets up her stall.
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"No offense, Iowa, but it's been kinda cool tonight to see who people voted for," MSNBC anchor Brian Williams said wryly, soon after Sanders had been declared the winner late Tuesday.
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What happens when a cast of Oscar contenders like Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed and Michelle Williams are turned loose to chew the scenery of a (seemingly wryly self-aware) B movie?
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An engineer at Neste, a Finnish oil company, wryly echoes that observation while showing visitors around a novel diesel refinery in Porvoo, an industrial town 50km (31 miles) east of Helsinki.
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" Responding to Bill Clinton's line that he had tried marijuana but never "inhaled," Carson wryly observed, "there are so many things wrong with that statement I don't know where to begin.
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"Daylight Savings Time is something that comes up in our season," Mandel admitted wryly, expressing disbelief that the issue of abolishing the practice suddenly came up reality while they were shooting.
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"I made this album for anyone that likes songs, and anyone that likes pianos, and anyone that can put up with my voice," Taylor says, wryly, from his home in London.
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And while the official was quick to say his country did not use that money on any IT investments, Faller did wryly note it wasn't just used to buy uniforms, either.
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"Every year, we hear that this is the worst year ever for U.S.-Turkish relations," a prominent Turkish academic wryly remarked to me last month during my visit to the country.
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Behind her, clasping her arm and in sharp focus, is a beak-nosed, wryly smiling figure, a demon with an Easter bonnet who might be ushering her to the other side.
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Mr. Campbell wryly makes note of this corruption at the upper right corner of his map, where officers placidly play cards in "the nice new police station" while mayhem reigns outside.
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Within the first few pages of "Boom Town," Sam Anderson offers readers a pre-emptive, wryly compassionate renunciation of his subject that most writers would never have the nerve to make.
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John Baker, the huge Steelers lineman who pummeled Tittle, died in 2007 after serving for 24 years as sheriff of Wake County, N.C., where he was wryly known as Little John.
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I know for 'countrymen' I had BONO AND THE EDGE, wryly clued as composers of the masterpiece "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"... c'mon, that's crossword gold, don't you think, Jeff?
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Other incidents Clinton suffered a two-minute coughing fit during an event in Cleveland last week, which she blamed on allergies -- and wryly put on the shoulders of GOP nominee Donald Trump.
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As these four sip wine on a veranda, Roz talks wryly about the racial hostility in her predominantly black-populated school, where students often call her a "white bitch" to her face.
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One official noted wryly that a post-Brexit Britain may expand its 430,000-strong civil service to handle matters now dealt with by the EU — and may have to hire from Brussels.
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Larry the Cat will be staying, the government spokesman said wryly, adding that Ms. May would inherit the tabby, adopted from an animal shelter in 2011 to help address a rat problem.
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Its humor is as dry as prairie dust ("Y'all are new at this, I'm guessin'," remarks an unruffled bank employee, wryly observing the robbers' unrefined technique), and its morals are steadfastly gray.
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They discussed his message but also his propensity to wave his hands around when he speaks — "It's part of my exercise regimen," Mr. Sanders said, wryly — and his fondness for rumpled suits.
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She shows me the armchair where Ms. Tharp sat during an early-1970s interview, wryly watching Ms. Jowitt's young son as he kept pushing a cup toward the edge of a table.
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Mr. Bolles said he had come to acknowledge that connection over time, but, he added wryly, the success of "Parachute" had also reflected the fact that it was a pretty good book.
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" Somewhat frazzled Hayhoe laughed off the comment saying that she didn't truly believe the Oscar winner to be unhinged, but President Obama stepped in to retorted wryly "I think you'll acknowledge he's crazy.
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When he later noted wryly that Orson Welles, who made "Citizen Kane" at 25, was a "late bloomer," the critics pounced, and he turned to Twitter to explain that he had been joking.
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NPLs may be on the verge of peaking ("If you haven't defaulted after eight years of recession", notes one banker wryly, "you probably never will"), but they still tie up the banks' capital.
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" McCurry wryly quotes, for example, the military historian John Keegan, who writes that war "is the one human activity from which women, with the most insignificant exceptions, have always and everywhere stood apart.
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"I don't need that kind of fame," said the other Shkreli, who smiled wryly when a reporter asked what he thought of his "newfound fame" after his lawyer entered a not-guilty plea.
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" Not everything is so weighty; Armantrout gets in some good ribbing of everyday foibles: She notes wryly that "Humans / photo-bomb the planet" and that "There's a lot going on in / 'the' / zombie apocalypse.
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Those less excited by the prospect of nerding out on social theory and wryly barbed situational humor may find themselves checking their watches — but even when it seems aimless, The Square is compulsively watchable.
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In recent years, Fisher wryly but lovingly documented their relationship in Wishful Drinking, the Broadway show, book and HBO special that offered her unvarnished take on her unusual childhood and later struggles with addiction.
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After the writers have lamented that they're hard-pressed to match the absurdity of the current news cycle, they seem to have wryly adopted the strategy that if you can't beat them, join them.
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Carpenter makes a point of finding the humanity in some of New York's incarceratetd, but he also turns Escape From New York into a thrilling adventure movie, and a wryly funny one as well.
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"A lot of drummers do things other than drumming," Patrick Carney points out, a bit wryly, while discussing producing Youngish American, the solo debut from Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Tomson's Dams of the West.
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Its dire happenings feel bleak rather than punctuated with joy; its warnings feel merely sad rather than wryly funny; and its routine infusions of comedy and warmth can't quite thaw its cold, dark heart.
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The pout has become a decidedly camp inside joke, precisely because her public image is a performance, about which she's constantly wryly giggling with those who choose to be in on it with her.
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"The most remarkable aspect of the list is the pedagogical mind-set its title reveals," Moser wryly notes, attuned to the ways that even Sontag's bodily exploits still ended up becoming something helplessly cerebral.
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Mediator Two decades ago, Bill O'Reilly's wryly resentful Everyman act became the foundation upon which the Fox News founder Roger Ailes built the right-leaning television monopoly that the network became (and remains today).
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But he was also self-deprecating, noting wryly that Innate was such a "bottom feeder" at the JPMorgan conference that the company had not even qualified for an invitation to attend the main event.
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Mr. Irabagon doubles on alto and tenor saxophone, and he gamely switches from straight-ahead jazz to astringent post-metal ( his guitar-sax-drums combo, wryly named I Don't Hear Nothin' But the Blues).
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" During a break, Bukowski naturally goes to get a beer, and later discovers he's the only person to have gotten all the test questions right, making him, the poem wryly concludes, "the class / intellectual.
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Isle of Dogs opens and closes with a circle of taiko drummers, and in between Anderson gives us everything from poisoned wasabi to sumo wrestlers to wryly written haikus to, hell, even a mushroom cloud.
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He lives in a no-harm, no-foul, consequence-free world where even the most awful villains smile wryly at his quips, and the authentic heroes who disapprove of his methods just wag their fingers.
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"When we began this campaign a little over a year ago, we were considered to be a fringe campaign,'' Mr. Sanders said on Tuesday, adding wryly: "I think that has changed, just a little bit.
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India's new defense minister will have to contend with the reality of Pakistan being "a client state of China" -- as one Indian official wryly called it -- a virtual Chinese colony in a post-colonial Asia.
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The framed photos on the walls are wryly selected: Tiger Woods as a child prodigy; Greg Norman seemingly breaking his putter in frustration; and Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer smoking cigarettes on a golf course.
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"At the time, that was the nicest thing you could say to me," she said wryly last month, perched on her couch near a window in her airy, modern apartment in the Brentwood neighborhood here.
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Breathtakingly tender and wryly understated, "The Psychology of Time Travel" feels like an antidote to a great deal of reported (and even fictionalized) history, its excised women now finding their way back into the spotlight.
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Sober, or moderately soused, he was an animate, wryly handsome fifty-two-year-old poet, essayist, and workshop leader, and the senior editor at, in Bobby's opinion, the country's sole remotely respectable poetry publishing house.
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" As Ms. Walker wryly put it in an interview with New York magazine in April: "We're in too much of a celebrity culture, but at least that means I can be a disappointment to others.
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It turns into a wryly funny story, though one that never forgets that it's also about communication and legacy, and about what we think we know about others versus what we trick ourselves into believing.
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Moses, the fugitive who attends to Newt's festering dog bites after he seeks sanctuary in a swamp with escaped slaves, wryly remarks, "You must taste as good as we do," to ironic chuckles from the group.
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The story builds from there into a tense but often wryly funny thriller and family drama, but while the plot is taut and nerve-wracking, Tallulah's real strength is the complexity and unpredictability of its characters.
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As Trumpcare swirls down the toilet bowl of history, it has become fashionable to suggest, wryly, that Paul Ryan's Obamacare troubles vindicate former House Speaker John Boehner, who faced widespread criticism for his own legislative failures.
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Burt Reynolds, the wryly appealing Hollywood heartthrob who carried on a long love affair with moviegoers even though his performances were often more memorable than the films that contained them, died on Thursday in Jupiter, Fla.
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"Trump is always better when he has somebody to pick on," said Wes Gullett, a Republican strategist based in Arizona, adding wryly, "If Democrats were smart, they would move their convention back until about Oct. 15."
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It adds up to an estimated 223 people, for a total of about $20,000 — such a hefty price tag for a company with a $3.7 million budget that Blinkwolt chuckled wryly when she spoke it aloud.
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But as Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image's auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.
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"Packer did all the talking and I did all the work," Chappell wryly remarked in an interview with The Charlotte Observer before Wake Forest played in the first round of the 1996 N.C.A.A. tournament in Milwaukee.
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"A new high-speed rail will be built right through my studio — not anyone else's, mine," he said wryly, thrusting two beefy arms out to show where the government planned to construct its next big project.
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The wryly old-fashioned slow-drag setting belies the hardheaded economic realism of "The Capitalist Blues," a theme statement for an album full of songs about trying to get by in a ruthlessly market-based world.
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Selling weed, the source notes wryly, was a slightly bigger deal back in 213 than it is now, and he shares Bress's conclusion that Burke's criminal proclivities likely made him a malleable resource for the prosecution.
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Throughout the work, Meyer's tone is darkly comedic and wryly clever; the Underwear Audit was launched with a manifesto that contains this appeal: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled drawers, yearning to breathe free!
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"I could have made millions — multimillions — off the calls I generated for the treatment industry playing the same game as anyone else, but I made pennies on the dollar sticking to raw calls," he told me wryly.
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It's a fantasy adventure, full of action and danger, and as Falk's character says, "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…" It's also wryly funny enough to be disarming for adult viewers. Why?
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We got a preview of this last year when Prime Minister Medvedev gave a 2 hour session at Moscow's Open Innovation Forum which, as one Kremlin-watcher I know wryly observed, amounted to "there's no more money".
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Actor Zach Braff wryly noted that "Melania headed to a disaster zone in stilettos is my Halloween costume," while others joked that Trump's "storm stilettos" were better suited for a runway than an area plagued by flooding.
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With wryly literate writing, complicated characters and timely explorations of issues like abortion, gun rights, gay marriage and government surveillance, the hourlong drama was an outlier among the procedurals and nighttime soap operas of the broadcast networks.
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Though a teensy bit intoxicated with its own cleverness — some of the sidebars don't land, and the narration (delivered, wryly, by Brett Gelman) overstays its welcome — "Harpoon" offers stylish compositions, amusing running gags and sharp, snappy dialogue.
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Besides, he noted wryly, the Senate was doing very little legislative business at any hour of the day even before the trial began, because Mr. McConnell has brought very few major pieces of legislation to the floor.
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The next editing tier is also heavily male, a climate that led one group of women to wryly fantasize one day about how differently a story might read if no man touched it throughout the editing chain.
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But by giving Earn, Paper Boi, and everybody else in the series something to work toward, Atlanta avoids the easiest criticism of these sorts of wryly comic dramedies: that they don't have anything real at their center.
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While The Founder is primarily a historical drama, it's often wryly hilarious as well, and the scene where a shocked Kroc takes in the McDonald brothers' innovations — including food that (gasp!) comes in a bag and (double gasp
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This could be the artist herself, going by a nearby painting titled "Were-artist" (2007), where a more masculine painter has the same hands and wryly enacts the bouts of monstrousness that hard creative work can bring on.
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At their best, Davis's essays resemble her celebrated short stories — her most recent collection is "Can't and Won't" (2014) — which are wryly occasional too: worked up from dreams, diaries, notebooks, letters of complaint and stray phrases from emails.
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As the stunned Josh notes wryly when confronted with this scenario, it's virtually the same plot as "The Last Starfighter," a movie that came and went rather quickly in 1984, but has gained a cult following since then.
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A man with animal intensity — he's called variously (and correctly) a panther, a lion, a creature — he's magnetic, whether in charged motion or, decked out in a snakeskin tunic and matching platform boots, bantering wryly with Dick Cavett.
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Sailors soon complained that commanders could be just as tyrannical with bread and water — or as crews wryly call it, "cake and wine" — as they had been with flogging, and there were repeated attempts to end the practice.
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Andrew M. Cuomo offered that he had tried marijuana in college, and even some laughter when he wryly noted that the public would have a better sense of Cynthia Nixon's personal worth if she released more tax returns.
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A petty, belittling neighbor, two books from the 11th century written by Japanese women, and accounts of babies in the classics: Galchen wryly examines small moments in literature and life with the fresh eyes of a new mother.
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Loneliness and sorrow lurk behind the picturesque facades of a mountain hamlet in the 8½-minute 35-millimeter film that constitutes the centerpiece of Sean Donnola's wryly titled solo show, "Don't Ever Leave," his first in New York.
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Earlier this year, Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin told Vox in an interview that the team behind the wryly sarcastic "party game for terrible people" is happiest with their comedy when it's rooted in something real.
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But "American Made" wraps its story in a wryly comic take, reveling in an absurdity and excess that hews closer to "Charlie Wilson's War" than "Scarface" or its current cousin, the Netflix series "Narcos," with which this movie overlaps.
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One thing you've learned, though, you smile wryly—older and wiser and heading into your 30s, looking over the cranes and the concrete foundations of another new building just next door—you never, ever, ever get your deposit back.
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Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers wryly noted the contradictions inherent in the anthem-respect debate when he posted a photograph on Instagram last week, showing photographers crouched at the feet of Rodgers and his teammates, aiming cameras at them.
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In an interview Thursday, Mr. Broad noted wryly that he was disclosing his decision to retire in the same week that Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who is also 84, announced that she was seeking a sixth term.
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In a 21968 lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor de Bary wryly noted that Mao, after decades of censoring any mention of Confucius, had to revive the philosopher's memory in the 1960s in order to revile him.
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" A character in "Losing Ground," an older actress, makes this point wryly: "I'm not longing to do 'Macbeth,'" she says, "but I'd love to play a real 60-year-old Negro lady who thinks more about men than God.
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" On a special broadcast of her temporarily revived old campaign podcast With Her, Clinton wryly joked Tuesday with interviewer Max Linsky that she wanted to dive right into discussion: "I want to be spontaneous and authentic — and maybe a little likable.
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It's the kind of wryly absurdist premise that provides plenty of fuel for jokes that make fun of everything from the entertainment industry to upper-class white people who play at being the most socially just social justice advocates of all.
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Noting that Poland has offered to host a big American base and call it "Fort Trump", the Lithuanian official wryly suggests that the Balts should offer to host forward operating bases and name them after Melania, Ivanka and Donald junior.
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In the show, Fisher wryly thanked "Star Wars" creator George Lucas for her stalkers, spoke of being born to "simple folk" and poked fun at her exes, singer Paul Simon and Bryan Lourd, a partner in the powerful talent agency CAA.
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Prikryl is a senior editor at The New York Review of Books (where, she wryly reports, "a mechanical pencil has its way with me / half my waking life"), and it's perhaps unsurprising that critics and self-reflexive intellectualism permeate her poems.
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Wholesome American families from the 50s laugh while catching on fire, an eager young boy's head flies off his body like a bloody rocket while opening Christmas presents, a lamb smiles wryly while getting stabbed by a dozen steak knives.
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" Ms. Long, who grew up in a middle-class family in rural New Hampshire and entered Dartmouth College only a few years after it began admitting women, is evidently more than comfortable being what she wryly calls "a political orphan.
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Thomas Nozkowski, whose small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware direction, died on May 21967 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 75.
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One day, while at the gym, I thought wryly of the phrase DEN OF INIQUITY in regard to one of the … let's say, infelicitous … conversations I happened to overhear in the sauna (thankfully, I wear headphones the rest of the time).
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"There are people who manage to reconcile harsh inequality in this country, hostile treatment to migrants and being members of the Conservative Party with their faith," noted Mr. Saxby, wryly, as he waited at a street corner for fellow activists.
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Perhaps the best thing we can do to keep Carlin's legacy alive is simply to keep him in our thoughts, right between "my ass hurts in this chair" and "let's fuck the waitress," as he once wryly suggested in a routine about death.
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Midway through a line about having three children and a wife, T.J., 33 and lanky with a long face and combed-back hair, paused to wryly point out that at 16, this was what he'd thought country songs were supposed to be like.
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At a local town hall session in May, Grassley wryly observed that such sentiment against the long-standing "blue slip" courtesy is the opposite of Senate Republicans' views in 2139 when Democrat Obama had become president and was ready to nominate judges.
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He proposed investigating arm gestures using monkeys, but the university was unable to offer him a primate, so instead he set up an experiment to investigate how cats recovered from forced interruptions to their movement—"tripping cats," as he put it, wryly.
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The aim was to determine how long they might be displaced from their homes and way of life — "six days, six months, six years, six centuries or six millennia," he wryly wrote — if the local flora were destroyed in building an alternative canal.
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" There were moments of tenderness: Mr. Lemon crawling as Ms. Miller leaned on him, releasing her weight into his back; Ms. Miller and Mr. Houston-Jones strolling side by side, as he bit into an apple and wryly observed, "This is biblical.
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" Isma, a Ph.D. candidate, is wise to the othering effects of language, wryly noting the superfluousness of "chai tea" and "na'an bread," as well as more insidious word choices: "The 7/7 terrorists were never described by the media as 'British terrorists.
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And Morris explains in accessible prose how economists have used modeling to study the New Deal (he wryly notes that this "is still a work in progress — if only because results are often suspiciously consistent with the political dispositions of the modeler").
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It's the latest installment of The Angel's Share, a series organized in the cemetery by Andrew Ousley, of the wryly named organization Death of Classical, which also presents The Crypt Sessions, concerts in the crypt at the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan.
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Antoine Laurain's reading from his novel "French Rhapsody" was, like his comments on Brexit, wryly laconic: Essentially, an artist reflecting on his new installation — a huge inflatable model of his own brain — is primarily interested in outdoing his rivals and frustrating his critics.
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On Monday Scaramucci, 55, re-posted and wryly shrugged off a tweet quoting him recounting how his erstwhile boss — a noted germaphobe — once sent him to the doctor for a penicillin shot in the butt so he could keep riding on Air Force One.
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"I've had people refuse to have their picture taken with me at conferences for fear it might get out," Callon-Butler observed wryly at the World Crypto Economic Forum's "Vice Panel" earlier this week You might wonder why Gallop herself didn't go the ICO route.
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He's capable of serving up an AIM away-message worthy line like, "you know I love you by the way that I kiss you," and then wryly undercutting it with a sound effect that's the auditory equivalent of the "Face Throwing a Kiss" emoji.
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The second involves a certain analytical distance, as the writer — wryly, perhaps, or with amusement — watches his younger self coming to terms with a society and an era, subjecting this immature version to the same meticulous scrutiny as the epoch in which he was raised.
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" Much later in the show, Australian comic Hannah Gadsby (whose Netflix standup show "Nanette" made major waves this summer in terms of the #MeToo reckoning) wryly joked that she got the gig "just cuz I don't like men" and "#NotAllMen, but a lot of 'em.
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Forster's great subject, the pull of individual passions against stifling social conformity, the old order against the new — "the unlovely chaos that lies between obedience and freedom," as he once put it — is also the through-line in Jhabvala's wryly tender early stories and novels.
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Kael's blunt, brilliant, wryly amused prose is resuscitated with lively affection in "What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael," Rob Garver's love letter to a woman whose infectious passion for the cinema coincided with one of the most prodigious eras in the art form's history.
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" In another chapter, he wryly observes that portraits created by Cézanne, who once exhorted a model to be still "like an apple," were really still lifes, "governed by color and harmony," not depictions of "human beings who do normal human things like talk, laugh and move.
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"Vellum lasts 133,000 years, while there is no guarantee that electronic means of preserving documents will be there 1,000 years from now," he said in a phone interview on Wednesday, noting wryly that the once wildly popular floppy disk had long since been consigned to history's dustbin.
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What distinguishes Snail Mail from many similar bands combining minimalist guitar-pop and wryly forlorn heart-songs is their deadpan musical stance: Lindsey Jordan's dazed, droning, mildly off-key voice, uttering every statement, whether happy or sad, self-mocking or defiant, in the same indifferent drawl.
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Show Us Your Wall CHADDS FORD, Pa. — "He'd come down here for the weekend, but I don't think he was too crazy about the country," the painter Jamie Wyeth recalled, wryly, of Andy Warhol's visits to the bucolic southeastern Pennsylvania farm where Mr. Wyeth still lives.
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And it caused quite a buzz on Twitter: Some people wryly pointed out that the study didn't measure fathers' kisses: The 'SMACK' study The study, which was supposedly led by the Study of Maternal and Child Kissing (SMACK) Working Group, involved 943 toddlers and their moms.
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For instance, transgender comedian Robin Tran positions herself as wryly self-aware about her own internalized misogyny, joking that she might be setting the women's movement back 50 years by transitioning into a stereotype; comedian Sonia Trevino opens her routine by turning her own fatness into a repeated punchline.
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Looking for example at the apparent 4.8-million tonne increase between run-rates in February and March, Paul Adkins of consultancy AZ China noted wryly that the month-on-month jump was equivalent to "10 smelters running at full speed on March 1 after being idle on February 29".
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Faced with the inevitable challenge of puttying in the extended gap, the producers wryly handle that in the premiere by having Karen (Megan Mullally) awaken from a nap, rattling off a laundry list of what's transpired in the intervening years, just to make sure she hadn't dreamed it.
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" The noted British journalist Alistair Cooke, then a foreign correspondent for The Manchester Guardian, weighed in wryly with the "alarming news" that the Dodgers would "try out an electronic umpire in the hope that he will call a decision even the Yankees will not be able to challenge.
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"I was not one of those defiant female types determined not to let a man threaten my peace of mind," she says wryly in Y IS FOR YESTERDAY (Marian Wood / Putnam, $29) after checking the four-inch space under her sofa bed for the vengeful killer who's stalking her.
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And when Dylan Crossman was asked about his new work, "[Insert Title]," in a postshow talk, he wryly admitted that it had been a trio until he added a central role for himself at one week's notice, and that the music had arrived the day before the opening.
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Some veterans of the Vatican press corps have wryly noted that Mr. Navarro-Valls studied medicine and specialized in psychiatry — "perfect for his job as papal 'spin doctor,' " Victor Simpson, who covered John Paul's entire pontificate in Rome for The Associated Press, wrote after Mr. Navarro-Valls's death.
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"I am a tastemaker and I kill things / I am not a tastemaker and I kill things / Albeit acquitted on the first four counts / The compilation released by the nation I founded for you," he wryly sings on "School, and the Girls Who Go There," a recollection of collegiate romance.
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"That's what happens after a war: The winner marries the prettiest girl in town," she added wryly, noting the whispers that followed when a Jewish man from Brooklyn settled down with the daughter of long-established vintners, moving into the sprawling villa that his own country's air force had partially bombed.
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It's a stunt that works on both a conceptual level, wryly commenting on a blue-chip artist whose paintings already seem factory-made, and on a pleasurable one, offering Wool fans on a budget a chance to take home a tactile tribute: They may be fake Wools, but they're genuine Doeringers.
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Pile on the pressures of a demanding boss at the nonprofit and a Salt Lake City dating scene that she wryly calls a "beautiful backdrop for suicidal ideation," along with the trauma of a public divorce and the hate she still experienced daily, and she found her depression engulfing her.
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This indicates a touching naivety of the painter's part, since Violet Pakenham was beautiful, intelligent, and a definite "catch"—Marion Coates, a girlfriend of Powell's at the time, remarked wryly years later that she could quite see why he would throw her over in favor of the daughter of a belted earl.
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A few years later, the column grew into a weekly review program, "Screenwipe," in which Brooker, ensconced in the living room of his South London flat, wryly taxonomized TV conventions ("TV presenters are basically imaginary friends, and they come in four main types ") and delivered baroquely vituperative monologues straight into the camera.
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The copious programming of the Tribeca Film Festival (April 13-24) stretches quality a little thin, but the best films in this year's edition are worthwhile viewing, starting with "Actor Martinez," a tough-minded yet wryly ironic behind-the-scenes look at the personal relationships that can make or poison a movie.
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J.), a 85033 presidential hopeful, on Wednesday wryly replied to a satirization from The Onion about fellow White House contender Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Gabbard, Buttigieg battle over use of military in Mexico MORE, the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
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"Alone at Last," an wryly antisocial love song — "With you I feel alone at last" — has a leaping, acrobatic melody and manages to fit vocabulary like "agoraphobic" into its lyrics, along with a name-check to Jean-Paul Sartre, but its easy-swinging mini-big-band arrangement is as cozy as it is sophisticated.
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So many standard things happen in this movie — Susan gets Ellen into a program with an unconventional, rules-challenging doctor (Keanu Reeves, the film's only flat note); Ellen meets a wryly funny recovering-anorexic boy (Alex Sharp) and starts a tentative romance; Ellen has a disastrous family-therapy session where the roots of her anxiety and rage are revealed.
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Artists include the videomaker Cao Fei, who makes wryly funny pieces — one shows a self-powered vacuum cleaner wandering through trash heaps in Beijing; Tao Hui, who makes large video installations on sometimes-disturbing subjects; and He Xiangyu, whose work includes a smashed, life-sized tank and a statue of a man collapsed face-down on the floor. minshengart.
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It's evident that this was just an early phase: Minimalism wasn't big enough to contain a temperament with her streaks of rococo excess and genre crossover, but she wryly tells us that her work from then on had to do with "less is more," as she takes us through 21980 works she made from 21971 to '71.
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Liam Neeson, also easy on the eyes, plays the stoic husband, but Manville, as a woman who receives a frightening cancer diagnosis early in the film, demands our attention every second she's on screen, whether scared, smiling, poker-faced or — when chemo makes her hair fall out — getting her head shaved by her attentive, wryly teasing spouse.
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The only thing the episode didn't give us was an overdue reunion between the group and Carol (especially since Morgan lied to them about her whereabouts — naughty!), but with Daryl remaining behind at the Kingdom to try and talk some sense into Ezekiel (or "stare him into submission," as Rick wryly suggested) it hopefully won't be too long before our favorite dynamic duo cross paths again.
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She can also be deadpan, or wryly funny: When her glider rocker (key equipment for nursing mothers) loses a screw, "The Return Policy at Land of Nod" (the rocker's manufacturer) feels "like an insidious, / mum extension of the dead- / line for completion of a / project I wish I had not undertaken," that project being both the ill-fated call to customer service, and motherhood itself.
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Featuring the characters in direct-to-camera interviews, a strong undercurrent to the film is that Harding's downfall preceded several others of the tabloid-friendly 1990s, so much so that a "Hard Copy" reporter (played by Bobby Cannavale) is among the witnesses, wryly noting that the show was dismissed as trash by a media ecosystem that later mastered copying its sordid bag of tricks.
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"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage," former President Barack Obama said in a remembrance of a man whom he beat to the presidency in 2008, and who he wryly remembered hounded him for his performance almost every day he was in office.
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Mr. Marshall's wryly observational "Car Girl 2," showing a woman leaning on a car from which a dog is leaning out, was sold by the New York dealer David Zwirner for $3.8 million, while the London-based Lisson Gallery sold four new colorful geometric abstracts by Mr. Whitney, priced between $350,23 to $450,000, to buyers in the Middle East, Norway and the United States, according to Lisson.
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" (A representative at Sourcebooks confirmed that Jackson was not required to return his advance, and the second title in his two-book deal is still slated for a 2020 release.) But the entire controversy had an ironic flavor given Jackson's own past stridency; when that May 2018 tweet resurfaced last month in the wake of his self-cancellation, one commenter wryly responded, "Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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Clinton has struggled throughout her career to seem "authentic," whatever that means, and there are several places in the book where she comes across as genuinely likable: Her love for her daughter, her grandchildren, her parents, and even her husband is quite moving, and she's particularly compelling when taking on Trump and the GOP, like when she wryly admits to mistaking Jason Chaffetz for fellow nondescript white man Reince Preibus.
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But for all that, Mr. Adams — a thoughtful, wryly funny man who lives in Berkeley, about 200 miles from here, and could easily be mistaken for one of that college town's professors, or ex-hippies, or both — still worries about what classical music should be, how to get it to speak to audiences that now flock to other art forms, and what his role is in its changing ecosystem.
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Rifkele, played with lovely sensitivity by Ms. Schmidt, yearns for freedom, too — the freedom to love Manke — but her father is busy arranging a good marriage for her, with the help of Reb Eli (a wryly funny David Mandelbaum), the matchmaker, who blithely brushes away Yankl's almost obsessive sense of guilt over his business, assuring him that as long as he's a good Jew, everything will be fine.
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" (Cindy Williams, Amy Irving, Sissy Spacek and Jodie Foster were among those who also read for the part.) Many of Ms. Fisher's line readings from that film have since become part of the cinematic canon: her repeated, almost hypnotic exhortation, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope"; her wryly unimpressed reaction when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) arrives in disguise to rescue her from a detention cell: "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
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" Musically, this is a sparkly cut of pop with some sharply observed lyrics, delivered in CAT's signature sultry, knowing purr over a dusty beat: "Claw your way to the top get honey / And when they make you the boss they'll pay you less money / Eat right, look hot, work out, stay young, meditate, concentrate, get a date, have fun / Slim your waist, change your face, with some lace you're done," she sings, before wryly adding, "no second place you've won.
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