| 单词 | wryly |
| 例句 | The work, as he put it wryly, involved “invisible materials being weighed with an invisible balance.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The official smiled wryly and stamped the papers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Think he’d have made the list. Him being your cousin and all,” she says wryly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After a long, uncomfortable silence, Heqet said wryly, “Do I make myself unpleasant, as the viper said to the asp?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "I always wore gloves. You got to understand—gardening ages your skin faster than a month of sunbathing. Not that that matters now," he said wryly, studying his wrinkled hands. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps, thought Hazel wryly, teeth and claws would make no impression on that great, firm body and shining pelt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Weaver told Fosdick wryly that most of them “warmly express the hope that the Rockefeller Foundation will be able to come in at this critical juncture.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Or not,” the woman in the corner interjected wryly, and the man laughed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, giving it up, he smiled wryly from the corner of his mouth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Leader laughed wryly when Matty had opened to a page and pointed to the unknown language. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “Back with you, back home. I”—and Eleanor smiled wryly—“am going to follow you home.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “You think too much,” her mother replied wryly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Well, their app might too, she thought wryly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Each year, she was voted Prettiest Girl in their form, and she would wryly say, “Its just because I’m a half-caste. How can I be finer than Zainab?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He smiled wryly, and leaned forward out of the light to pour himself some more Scotch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “At least we found out what he dreams about,” Dunbar observed wryly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “And I had to blow up two perfectly good cars,” Scythe Curie said wryly. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As she spoke she thought wryly, not that I’ve always followed those rules. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When she served it, he tasted it wryly. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced down at me from the corner of his eye, smiling wryly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry — I don’t understand any of it,” I said wryly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I say wryly, “I wonder. We may never know.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Amelia glanced quickly at the hanky—making sure it was a clean one, Lyddie thought wryly—but she murmured a thank you and blew her nose. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Harry thought wryly, he had still endured worse mutterings... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She twisted her mouth wryly, as if she were tasting something she disliked. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “We call it the kiss of death,” she shouted, smiling wryly to soften the words. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor, watching, thought wryly that it might sometimes be oppressive to be for long around one so immediately in tune, so perceptive, as Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “It seems I am not the only spy among us, Overlander,” said Ripred wryly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was famous, he thought wryly, but not in the way he’d wanted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Rishi smiled wryly at her before looking back down at his drawing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Well, look what the bloody cat dragged in,” she says wryly when I walk through the door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Jackson introduced them by alluding to their goal of making atom bombs cleaner, reporting “the gleam in the scientists’ eye of making them almost like Ivory Soap”—then adding wryly: “but not quite.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I am learning, I think. As the hare said when he tried to fly,” Heqet added wryly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Tonight,” he reflected wryly, “I’d give him the whole bed! I’d even sleep in the basket myself—if only he would come back!” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even though you were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv,” she said wryly, “I really would give you this clover. Except luck is for suckers.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Probably,” said Dr. Schultz wryly, “he’s wondering if they’re ready for their steroid injections, too. As a matter of fact, I think the G group is. They’re doing almost as well as A group.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “If the morphlings have left me anything to work with,” he says wryly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After thumbing through the sleek hardcover book, Mr. Obama looked up and asked wryly, “Does this mean that we can’t use the Maxwell House Haggadah anymore?” A Thoughtful New Translation of the Haggadah 2012-03-09T22:54:09Z When I came to interview Mortensen, I was impressed by the amount of work and thought that had gone into his portrayal of a wryly courteous, cigar-smoking Freud. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z “Inspiration,” he said wryly, through a cloud of cigarette smoke. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In some ways, “M3gan” is a comedy disguised as a horror film; the four-foot robot doll humorously breaks into song, exhibits weird dance moves and wryly throws shade — when she’s not murdering. ‘M3gan’ Beats Box Office Predictions, Sailing Into Second Place 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z A “Money Tree” series, often bedecked with fake coins, proved particularly popular; “After all, who doesn’t need it?” as she noted wryly in the letter. Is It Time for an Enid Collins Revival? 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z “Maybe I’m in love with everybody,” she said wryly. Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z In London, he watched the action from the wings, smiling wryly. Christie’s and Sotheby’s Auctions in London Keep the Bubble Afloat 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z A performer to her core, Ms. Dodson has cultivated a persona that swings between gruffly abrasive and genial, and she can be wryly funny at times. You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z These women are watchers, wryly astute in their assessments of others. Debut Stories From Clare Sestanovich, Brenda Peynado and Choi Eunyoung 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s not an intuitive route, but Coppola is wryly accepting of the vagaries of marketing. Sofia Coppola: ‘I never felt I had to fit into the majority view’ 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z “The behemoth whispers a different secret in each listener’s ear,” Ross so wryly but perfectly sums up the “near-infinite malleability” of his art and the “interpretive pandemonium” over what exactly these operas mean. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “There are certain things about ballet that are kind of universal—it’s just what the rules are,” he said, wryly. Man to Man 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z "The princess marries the bad boy," Houston wryly described the union years later. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z An unshaved Cohen, sporting a fedora and bolo tie, wryly noted that he never won a Grammy for any of his recordings. 2010-01-31T03:55:00Z “That’s how I feel half the time, doing this show,” he said wryly. Tom Scharpling Plans Podcast of ‘The Best Show’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “Last year our programming suffered from a lack of levity,” Intiman producing artistic director Andrew Russell notes wryly. Intiman’s second festival has more to prove in 2013 2013-07-05T16:46:38Z “I guess they think you are going to be bringing extra people, or you’re weird,” he says wryly. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “I became praised, because I worked very hard,” she said, laughing wryly. The China Institute?s Curator Has Connections 2010-03-20T04:40:00Z “No pressure,” she said wryly, “just a little American classic.” With ‘Brooklyn,’ Saoirse Ronan Embraces Her Journey 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In a new memoir, “I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are,” Bloom, 33, applies an unsparing and wryly comedic lens to herself. Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Asked if this sequence caused him to contemplate his own recent brush with mortality, Mr. Douglas wryly answered, “I didn’t need a lot of Method stuff for that.” Liberace’s Tale, From Michael Douglas and Steven Soderbergh 2013-05-17T21:54:42Z Here was a jazz piano trio with the heart and gall of a stadium rock band, grappling wryly but directly with anthemic covers and its own scarcely less anthemic originals. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z “I made some crucial, crucial parenting mistakes, and he’s now a libertarian,” Paulina said wryly. Paulina Porizkova, Full-Frontal Emotion 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Then she smiled wryly and added, “especially emeralds.” Front Row: Does This Green Flatter Me? 2011-03-30T16:54:52Z When Penny remembered her apprehension about meeting Clinton — “Hillary Clinton, my God, just so impressive, smart and thoughtful” — Clinton smiled wryly and rolled her eyes. Clinton and Penny team up to write novel ‘State of Terror’ 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Aptly reading the gender dynamics of the room at that time, she wryly concludes the anecdote: “I think I’m Jackie Robinson.” Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z “It was really fun, especially in these heels!” she said wryly. Winter Storms and Snow Test the Imagination of New York Fashion Week Attendees 2014-02-14T21:09:25Z Surviving a fire, he added wryly, had been a baptism of sorts for his new life in the United States. Amid Exile and Fire, a Revered Russian Theater Director Is Reborn 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “I can sleep and you can squeeze nutrient paste in my mouth,” Selena wryly observes to her mordant secretary, Sue Wilson. 'Veep' Season 4 Premiere Recap: She's Bebop Speaking 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z He also intended to appear in the Seattle Rep premiere of the work but explains wryly that the "TV gods" intervened. Solo actor tackles 'An Iliad' at Seattle Rep 2010-04-08T20:15:00Z Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of Gawker, the shuttered gossip site, wryly observed afterward: “We pretty much live in a never-ending Gawker post now.” Perspective | ‘Turn around, drop ’em’ was memorable, but the Stormy Daniels story is really about intimidation 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s just the kind of radical tonal shift that, if there were anything remotely comforting, wryly funny or redemptive about it, would be positively Sheltonian. Perspective | Lynn Shelton had the audacity to tell her own stories on film. She will be missed. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Most are self-portraits that show her wryly using as props a variety of domestic items — stuffed animals, kitchen utensils and especially food. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The film is perched wryly between fiction and documentary. ‘Bird Island’ Review: Avian Therapy 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Naturally, a sequel is in development, which Reynolds announced wryly with the hashtag “#irony.” New this week: ‘Law & Order,’ Madea and Tears for Fears 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Piper sustains a dangerous, seesawing tension between the familiar, wryly civilized surface and the primal agony that swallows selfhood. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “Well, I have to laugh,” she said wryly. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But the wryly satirical “Snow What” never offends. Review: ‘Skippyjon Jones Snow What’ Continues Tale of a Conflicted Cat 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z But Wood was wryly funny about his own early struggles as an actor in the 1950s. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z Andrew and Zelda “will date for eight months, three weeks, five days and one hour,” a narrator says wryly. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z “You’re never hearing about the great Tom in ‘Glass Menagerie,’ ” he said wryly. Tapping a Rough-and-Tumble Life 2010-12-25T04:00:48Z “We all know what a bum decision that turned out to be,” she recalled wryly of the gay movie star. Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 “Make this the year you discover a new destination,” it wryly says, in the style of a tourism video. Watch Banksy's Two-Minute Gaza Video 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z One track, wryly titled “Histrionics,” involves a chantlike melody assigned only to tenor saxophone, toms and bass drum. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z Last Christmas, she was thrilled to make her first trip back in years, noting wryly that she might have stayed to wait out the pandemic there, had she anticipated it. A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “Just making people aware of the fact that these issues still are here 100 years later reminds you of how it’s actually kind of boring,” he continued, wryly smiling. William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “They say that modern man and modern woman have a short attention span,” he sings wryly during the opener, preemptively winking at the patience that inspired his songs and that they, in turn, reward. How Blake Mills became good at everything 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z With its wryly absurdist, self-absorbed but self-deprecating humor, the film is like a Southern Protestant, nonfiction version of a Woody Allen comedy. Watch List: Selections for Marathon Couch Time 2013-08-12T21:53:25Z Mr. Rutault’s wryly iconoclastic process represented a break from the past, subverting the basic notion that painters are people who paint. Claude Rutault, Master of the Painted Word, Is Dead at 80 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z 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. Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos Find Common Ground 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z However, while self-evidently preposterous, The Listener is beautifully shot, relatively plausibly acted and wryly written. Silk 2011-03-01T08:00:02Z Speaking directly to the camera in “Created Equal,” Thomas is veritably chatty, reminiscing about his childhood, extolling the work of Ayn Rand, smiling wryly at his own quips. ‘Created Equal’ Review: A Justice of Few Words Finds His Voice 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “Actually,” Lee recalled wryly, “we did almost burn White Columns down. We wanted to leave a microwave running for 24 hours. Matthew said, ‘No, you cannot do that. After Half a Century, White Columns Still Surprises 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z He then wryly added, “I hate spending time with stupid people.” Alex Trebek reveals how he'll decide when it's finally time to leave "Jeopardy!" 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “That’s never been my strong suit, making friends,” he added wryly, and in the face of much contradictory evidence. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z “When I went to study with Gulda, he said I was like a hermaphrodite,” she says wryly. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “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. 9/11 Memorial Concerts, Mostly Low-Key 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Faber describes the book as a "wryly comic yet deeply serious glance at the ultimate insignificance of life and politics, told through the daily lives of four friends in modern-day Paris." Milan Kundera novel 'The Festival of Insignificance' coming in English 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z “In Berlin, we have some experience with old, master conductors,” Bröking said wryly. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z As Cage wryly acknowledged in 1950: "Marcel was using chance operations the year I was born." Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z “I am transforming from being an imam, which is a religious leader, into a technician-programmer,” he said wryly. Breaking the Ramadan Fast in Quarantine 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z In one corner, they can watch brief videos of artists, listening on headphones as Kiki Smith discusses printmaking, or William Kentridge wryly describes how he creates a work, then decides what it means. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z “If anything, it stopped people from complaining around me,” she says wryly. You can direct a movie while pregnant. But Hollywood’s not going to make it easy. 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Near the wedding present rest infant busts of his great-granddaughter Cecile, now 2, and a recent self-portrait in clay that he wryly calls his "portrait of the artist as an old man." Sculptor's creative juices still flowing at 93 2010-12-20T19:16:02Z 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. Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “What?” he said, smiling wryly and shrugging his shoulders. Celebrating Forefather of Graffiti 2011-07-22T23:55:25Z "My biggest fear about the apocalypse isn't being eaten by cannibals," a character says wryly. Charlie Jane Anders' 'All the Birds in the Sky' has the hallmarks of an instant sci-fi classic 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z "He's not doing an academic perspective," wryly notes Hank Hine, the director of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. From Spain to Florida: new Dali exhibit begins 2012-10-11T18:13:08Z During conversations over two days last month — edited excerpts are below — he was preternaturally calm, consistently forthright, reflexively self-aware, and wryly funny. Frank Ocean Is Finally Free, Mystery Intact 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Brill is a refreshingly unmannered Ali Hakim, and Ms. Testa is a splendid, wryly authoritative Aunt Eller. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “It was less than ideal in setting the tone,” he wryly reported. Date Lab: She was able to relax, but his stress levels rose as the evening wore on 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Weschler, closing the event, wryly suggested a rallying cry for New York State: “Can’t we be almost as good as Mississippi?” Solitary Confinement is Topic for Humanities Institute 2012-11-18T23:07:45Z Both, he said are “wryly enigmatic in their own way.” ArtsBeat: Coming to Trafalgar Square: An Unusual Horse and a Giant Thumb 2014-02-07T19:17:16Z Oluo has email folders full of hate mail that she wryly labels “fan mail.” In America, Is Power in the Hands of Too Many ‘Mediocre’ Men? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z "My wife said it was a grim time," he says, wryly. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z "When you don't study something," he says wryly, "you don't have the burden of history." Pull it together, take it apart: How Steve Roden makes a soundscape 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Without mentioning names, Ms. Monk remarked wryly that she felt that both selections were appropriate for the current political situation. Review: Meredith Monk, Still a Peerless Mixture of Otherworldly and Human 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “It said they had an excellent literature department, and it said the girls had wonderful sex lives,” she told me, wryly. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “Maybe nobody even notices,” he said wryly, adding: “It’s not bombast. It’s not, ‘Look at these technical things we can do.’ Trent Reznor contemplates the future, the road 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The record “may be one of the few top-selling albums,” Prince Rupert wryly noted, “to contain a reference to financial planning in the title.” Rupert Loewenstein, financial adviser who helped create Rolling Stones’ empire, dies at 80 “Please don’t feel like you need to be complicit in my impending nervous breakdown,” she says wryly. Alzheimer’s gets a warm face in ‘Blackberry Winter’ by Forum Theatre 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Duncan Rennie Title track from his fourth solo studio album, Still Crazy … features a narrator reflecting wryly on being hung up on the past. Paul Simon: a beginner's guide 2012-07-19T15:00:00Z The reader of On Beauty who has read Howards End will get things that other readers miss, for Smith imitates and wryly updates the main episodes of her original. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z 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.” Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z He was on hand Sunday night as presenter of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, which he wryly described as "my old category." Emmy presenter Sheen wishes his old show well 2011-09-19T01:27:11Z “Some of these children,” Ms. Rossellini noted wryly, “don’t even know where an egg comes from.” Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z And I thought it was women who were supposed to have it all,” one of the play’s female characters wryly remarks. Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “Tom Steyer was stuck in this elevator and they had to call the police,” Ms. Pelosi said, wryly, as her mother looked on. Alexandra Pelosi Muses on the Donors She Convinced to Talk Candidly in Her New Film 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Speaking to a few thousand industry peers in a lecture hall and countless more viewers watching her online, she shared stories from her ascent, a narrative that was by turns wryly comic and devastating. Michaela Coel Puts Herself Together in ‘Misfits’ 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Just after concluding a sunny summary of her current bliss, she catches herself up short wryly. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z One of the rare lighter songs is the wryly funny “How Can I Lose You?” Theater Review: ?Myths and Hymns,? Directed by Elizabeth Lucas 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z “There was a part of me that kind of thought, like, Maybe she’ll name it after me,” he said wryly. Casey Affleck Is Making Another Splash, Reluctantly 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Well, you know," he smiles wryly, "it is made for what I guess you would call the small screen. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z “It was sheep dip for humans,” Mr. Bennett said wryly, asking his audience to imagine their screams and the fear and anxiety of those waiting their turn for the showers. A Window Into a Harsh Chapter in Sydney’s Past 2012-11-28T00:07:21Z Noting wryly that words “certainly do have two meanings,” Mills argued on one program that the “subconscious mind” could hear these phrases, which is why sinful rock musicians put them there in the first place. What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z It has also helped raise awareness of what Mr. Guggenheim wryly described as “challenging” films. Pinning Academy Award Hopes on a Powerful Song 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “My boyfriend,” Spletstoser cracks, the words wryly slipping out the side of her mouth. Retired Col. Kathy Spletstoser wasn’t able to stop Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten from being confirmed. But she’s not done with him. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “What I foresee,” Mr. Feiffer offered wryly, “is a glamorous future.” Jules Feiffer and a ‘Hamilton’ Producer Color Outside the Lines for a New Musical 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z There are those who might wryly suggest this isn't the most unprecedented turn of events in history. Radio 1's daytime takeover: liked Tinie? Try this lot 2011-01-03T21:30:01Z “Bee and PuppyCat” remains a blissful and wryly comic meditation on the joys of aimlessness and the possibility of transformation. Here Are Three Netflix Cartoons You Should Be Watching 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z 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. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z 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. Fall Back Into the School Year With Books by, for and About Teachers 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z She paused, then with a half-smile added wryly, “I decided that that was what they said.” Critic’s Notebook: Monica Mason Reflects on Leadership of Royal Ballet 2012-07-20T22:03:05Z "Where else are you going to perform an opera?" one bystander asked wryly while watching a "Hopscotch" rehearsal earlier this month in a vacant lot strewn with broken glass. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z “To me,” he added wryly, “it’s a no-brainer why people are gravitating toward this.” ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Jamal wryly observes that if he had been thinking about his royalties, he would have included more of his own pieces on his albums back when they sold by the truckload. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z The beauty of Ms. Kowroski’s long-limbed physique and the naturally vast amplitude of her line, along with her wryly discreet manner, have long won her high affection among the audience. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Recalls Wagner wryly, “I think when I entered the picture, you stopped winning Grammys, and you stopped making money.” Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Meeh added, wryly, “The other thing I’m doing today is filing for unemployment. I’m checking off these big life experiences.” Getting Married at City Hall Was an Essential Service for Some 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Hitchcock wryly called his box-office flop an "expensive self-indulgence"; to Truffaut, he said that "the humour is quite rich". The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z In any case, her powers of observation emerged as acute, somewhat critical and wryly mischievous. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z And Mr. Black is so wryly funny and incisive about matters of major import that he doesn’t need to pile on poor, pointless Kim Kardashian. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z “Some things never change,” she noted wryly, as they paused for a change of gear. Women take the spotlight at NAMM's She Rock Awards 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z As the actor poses questions, smiling wryly, the camera appears to be paying Cyclopean attention to its hot-seat predicament. ‘Prism’ Review: Taking a Clear View of Bias in Moviemaking 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “Everyone in the world knows who she is,” says her wryly observant older brother, Craig Robinson. Review | ‘Becoming’ goes backstage with Michelle Obama, where everyone’s dazzled but the details are nothing new 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z As she tosses off one-liners in response to ignorance and sheer malice directed at her, she raises her eyebrows wryly, her eyes playfully sparkling behind her dark-rimmed glasses. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Maran manages simultaneously to document her own “booby-prize life” and wryly mock it, as when she reports a friend sighing “with empathy or with compassion fatigue.” Review | Elinor Lipman on the wry inspiration of Meredith Maran’s ‘The New Old Me’ 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Franco, who has made a side career of taking on projects that wryly play with his image as a multitasking, self-important celebrity, laughed at that, too. James Franco and Chris O’Dowd on Their Rapport in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-03-19T12:00:02Z Seen in excerpt, it juggled power plays and permutations of persona in wryly fine-tuned ways. Velocity's Fall Kick-Off: local dance variety pack 2011-09-24T17:22:04Z “It has all the pressure of knowing people are watching without the instant gratification,” he wryly observed, during a recent interview via Zoom. Perspective | Josh Groban can’t sing in concert halls now, so he’s been singing in the shower. Next up: His first holiday special, streamed. 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Her father, who she says wryly “likes to participate,” told a local farmer that Howard would buy 500 pounds of blueberries from him. Vivian Howard lives ‘A Chef’s Life,’ her attempt to show the real North Carolina Spacey's spaced-out LA therapist takes a sledgehammer to your irony buttons as he dishes out advice to a motley crew of neurotic cliche clients and promotes his latest self-help bestseller, the wryly titled Happiness. Film review: Shrink 2010-06-03T22:25:00Z 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. Time to Make the Donates! 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z She decided to explore that feral energy during a visit to Koneko, a cat cafe on the Lower East Side, an oddball setting for an interview, as she noted wryly. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Neil Patrick Harris was in especially disarming form as a wryly dapper master of ceremonies. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: What Oscar Can Learn From Tony About How To Put on a Show 2011-06-16T16:54:02Z “That is the question, isn’t it,” Swenson said, wryly borrowing a line from early in the show, when Diamond has yet to find a sound that is his own. Playing Neil Diamond: A Dream Role, and a ‘Crazy Privilege’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z During his daily walks, he wryly observes the Regent’s Canal towpath crowded with jogging “body-image gladiators” and fit young women who “haul accessorised dogs that are killing themselves to keep up.” Review | Modern life, as seen by a writer without a smartphone 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z When George R. R. Martin trashed the Lost finale, Lindelof took his hurt wryly public: “In related news, my therapist just hit the jackpot.” Damon Lindelof and Why Twitter Is Not Always for Everyone 2013-10-16T21:47:33Z As Brook wryly says: "If you come to this production looking for something that will slam you in the eyes, you've come to the wrong address." Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z Mr. Martins recalled wryly how he wondered why Balanchine never revived “Apollo” for about seven years in the 1970s. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z "I got to respect that they're pigeonholing me as something instead of nothing at all," he says, smiling wryly. Ones to watch in 2013: Scrufizzer 2013-01-01T10:00:04Z Unspooling, Manchester A wryly amusing exhibition in which the artists display an ambivalent attitude towards the history of film. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2010-10-01T13:40:00Z 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. Review: ‘Aubergine,’ a Stew of Regret and Impending Loss 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z "Sounding like Astrud Gilberto while coming on like Gang of Four was always going to be a problematic approach," Thorn now reflects wryly. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z The whole song is a commanding celebration of life: an intense and wryly foreboding sermon that explodes into an ecstatic dance party. Dancing to Prince 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Freud approved of the novella's happy end, but wryly warned that where writers could give pleasure and enjoyment, his own observations would be "clumsier and the yield of pleasure less". Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z 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. Arbus, Untitled and Unearthly 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “I think Washington is about to have a really big homeless problem,” Castellanos wryly states. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Noah also commented on a Croatian billboard that wryly commented on Melania Trump’s English skills. Trevor Noah Thinks Paul Manafort Got Mixed Up With the Wrong Crowd 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “The language is manipulated and strangled in such a way that you get the message,” she noted wryly. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Years later, Harrison would wryly observe that “I needed the hepatitis to quit drinking.” George Harrison's spectacular comeback: What 1979 meant for his post-Beatles career 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z More shaman than chiropractor, Jensen populates his office with “the spirit figures you’d find in any American neo-pagan household,” Levin wryly observes, “of which there were so many in Santa Fe, including mine.” Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z These actors are members of an informal company that he refers to wryly as the “Lopsided Caravan of Misfit Toys.” The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z His name is Patrick Ojukwu, and he would be this book’s version of a Greek god if Quirke himself were not wryly compared to one. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z As his instructor wryly observes, “For most writers, even reliably published and actually self-supporting writers, the privacy was thunderous.” Excuse Me While I Steal Your Book Idea and Get Famous 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z In the city of York, Pa., a statue of the Marquis de Lafayette — the famous French major general in the Revolutionary War — smiles wryly. Getting to the bottom of a Lafayette mystery in York, Pa. 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “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. She Speaks Truth to the Funny Men in Power 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z In her “intimate,” “witty,” sometimes “acerbic” account, the veteran Times congressional reporter is “often a few steps ahead of the newcomers,” our reviewer, Ellen Fitzpatrick, wryly observed. New in Paperback: ‘Brother & Sister’ and ‘The Resisters’ 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But as the 10th anniversary of what she wryly calls “the Archive’s own 1/11” approached, she was contacted by scholars preparing studies of the Archive and its demise. Mary and MoMa: The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills 2012-01-11T19:14:15Z "We get used to these last-minute situations," Schrader wryly told the audience. Lindsay Lohan: primed for a comeback that could be her last 2013-08-13T13:14:00Z And there are lighter moments that reflect a wryly amused view of Los Angeles culture. | 'Law & Order: Los Angeles': So, Picture Briscoe With a Tan 2010-09-28T22:53:00Z A scene depicting a meeting between Hoffa and Tony Pro is wryly amusing as each insulted party wants an apology. Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman": De Niro, Pacino and Pesci shine in this intimate gangster epic 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “If there’s one good thing about terror,” Lydia thinks wryly, “it’s that it’s more immediate than grief.” Review | ‘American Dirt’ offers a thrilling adrenaline rush — and insights into the Latin American migrant experience 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Of Condon, he observed wryly: “There has been more than one time he has questioned my commas.” At Kennedy Center, ‘Side Show’ takes another turn around the midway “Then they got tired and wrote, ‘Less relevant items not displayed,’” as one of the narrators in the opening section wryly remarks. Review: In ‘Steel Hammer,’ a Man and a Train in a Race and a Legend 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As Winston Churchill, one of the last century’s most powerful writers, wryly observed, “This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “We went to marriage counseling,” is how Roth wryly describes those attempts. Ari Roth’s swift departure from Theater J follows a tumultuous tenure 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z When she wore pants in the 1990s, one male colleague wryly asked if it was “casual day.” Women’s power dressing enters the enlightened era One rates highly, while the other hates wryly. Style Invitational Week 1467: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z He laughs, noting wryly that “the millennial midlife crisis will be one for the ages.” ‘Hollywood Is Changing,’ Says Its Veteran Activist, Tim Robbins 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Dillon also wryly suggested in the interview that his ambitious piece might go down in history as “the most canceled premiere ever.” The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z But she did once spend six months as a cheerleader, she notes wryly. The Cabiri add dance power to their aerial act 2011-10-16T03:13:54Z However, Fitzsimmons wryly observed that he’s still writing the same old sad songs, so maybe things haven’t changed that much after all. William Fitzsimmons charms at the Triple Door | Concert review 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a lot of hard work pushing those stems down into the grapes as they’re fermenting,” he said wryly. Turns out, the stem end’s the beginning of something great 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “But,” he said wryly, “It’s more than what I would get playing South by Southwest.” North by Northwest? Paul Allen’s Upstream music festival could be Seattle’s answer to Austin 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z "The teachers really liked me," she says wryly. | Elena Rubin Skincare 2012-12-17T19:39:44Z “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. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “The idea that ‘Bohème’ would be off-limits was, in my youthful enthusiasm,” he added wryly, “something that I didn’t want to contemplate.” ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z "I love doing comedy in a tent, at one in the afternoon, for people who haven't slept in two days," O'Brien said wryly. Conan O'Brien plays rock star at Bonnaroo 2010-06-11T22:42:00Z If you’re familiar with the Danish director’s films, you might expect something dark and satirical — like “The Celebration” or “The Hunt,” which wryly expose the nasty undercurrents of bourgeois existence. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z But the doctor’s wife wryly compares Jesus’s crucifixion to one of Hercule Poirot’s murder mysteries, suggesting that the real meaning of the Gospels — a marrying of reason and faith — is found only in literary interpretation. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “Thanks a lot for giving her such awful fashion sense,” Sandra said wryly. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Imanuel seems wryly amused by his climb to American internet stardom from half a world away. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Commerce intrudes on spiritual traditions in what amounts to cheerful shop signs, as Fernandes wryly lampoons entrenched fantasies about so-called primitive art. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z On “The Muppet Show,” he was bothered by nitwits but wryly in control. Review: In ‘The Muppets’ on ABC, Kermit Is in a Mundane Midlife Crisis 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z "I hated him. We didn't keep in touch," she said wryly. Miranda July sheds her pixie image with novel 'The First Bad Man' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In the wryly titled “If a Book Is Locked There’s Probably a Good Reason for That Don’t You Think,” the narrator discovers the price for invading privacy when she forces open a sealed diary. Best science fiction and fantasy this month 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The much less hardened Lucy jokingly points to her and wryly says, “revolving door.” Review: ‘Key Change’ Hears From Women in Prison 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “There have been about six first pregnant men,” Barker notes wryly. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “I’m watching this alone,” a commenter wrote wryly beneath the video of the summer waffle. Eating Alone in China 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Baker wryly predicts his film will end up remembered best as the first movie of the scarily gifted Brooklynn Prince. The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z To protect an old table from drink rings, she wryly offered her closed laptop: “Go ahead and use this coaster.” Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Carell's character, Dodge, is very much in the vein of the detached and depressed but wryly observant figures he's played before: He's an insurance agent whose wife takes when news of the asteroid breaks. Review: `End of the World' has its moments 2012-06-19T22:51:10Z “The TV industry is very, very adept at creating self-fulfilling prophecies,” Bill Lawrence, who co-created “Scrubs” and “Cougar Town,” said wryly. Television: In Bear Times, a Bull Market for Sitcoms 2010-04-17T21:50:00Z In this academic satire, whose wryly funny first two episodes were screened for critics, the main person his character is trying to deceive is himself. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z “Look it up,” she adds wryly — or rather Ms. McDormand does. Theater Review: ‘Bodycast,’ at BAM, With a Lecturing Frances McDormand 2013-12-04T19:14:04Z He returned to his medical practice in Memphis, wryly noting, “My patients, the ones I didn’t kill, were very faithful.” George C. Nichopoulos, doctor who prescribed drugs to Elvis, dies at 88 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z The reporter is a handy device for allowing Rock to access weighty topics within politics and culture while still seeming wryly self-aware. Chris Rock’s new movie “Top 5″ is really a Chris Rock think-piece 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Burstein’s knockabout “Buddy’s Blues,” a low vaudeville clown turn, seethes with a genuine exasperated ambivalence that comments wryly on both Buddy’s self-flagellating nature and on the cathartic nastiness of music-hall humor. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z Later, she describes sleeping frogs wryly as trying "to screen themselves behind leaves and rocks, to hide from people who want to poison each other with frog poison". Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z As he puts it wryly, “Drinking is a demanding profession, and I can’t hold two jobs at once.” Movie Review: ‘The Magic of Belle Isle,’ by Rob Reiner, With Morgan Freeman 2012-07-05T22:10:44Z He’s working on new material, he allows, driven by the same concerns. ”This time, of course, I’ll be protected over the royalties,” he notes, wryly. Sixto Rodriguez, Secret Rock Star Behind Searching for Sugar Man 2012-08-21T12:00:30Z "I think all of my family would say I was to some extent a workaholic," he agrees, smiling wryly. AC Grayling: 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously' 2011-04-03T20:00:01Z “If you don’t involve yourself in politics, you’re destined to be governed by your inferiors,” Rasmussen cracked wryly. Meet the real Stu from musical ‘Stu for Silverton’ 2013-07-24T02:09:04Z Still, as July 4 approaches, the effort is stepping into overdrive, as planners hit what some wryly call the annual panic button. Will America Be Ready for Its 250th Birthday? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z As Harvard neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman wryly comments: "It's very hard for a human brain to understand the extraordinary complexity of a human brain." TV highlights 03/07/2013 2013-07-03T06:00:07Z On the adjoining page, Sarah Webster Fabio’s “I Would Be for You Rain” wards us off wryly: “I would be for you rain; / insistent, persistent, yet / intermittent.” A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z As he would wryly note years later, the opportunity was born of the paper’s unusual belief that “Afro-diasporic musics should on occasion be covered by people who weren’t strangers to those communities.” The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z "You tried a bit too hard," he says wryly. Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning' 2012-05-27T19:01:01Z Mrs. Leiber wryly dismissed the notion that she was an artist; museum directors and gallery owners thought otherwise. The Leibers Are Gone. But Their Bling Is Back. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Morrissey declares at one point; elsewhere, he wryly dismisses his career as "persistence". Morrissey ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:48Z She read my expression and smiled wryly, forgoing the “I told you so” I so clearly deserved. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z It’s a work, Blomstedt wryly noted in a recent interview, that he has been hearing for nearly a century. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Today there is what she called a “robust” online market for supposedly ancient jewelry — including, she added wryly, identical rings in a choice of sizes that happen to fit modern fingers. Jewelry Counterfeits: The Age-Old Problem Just Keeps Growing 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z One such moment was an improvised piano interlude, played by Mr. Mitchell in a two-handed, crab-scuttling counterpoint, on a composition wryly titled “Numb Trudge.” Matt Mitchell’s Jazz Gallery Concert Showcased New Material 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Look for a large, graphic turtle wryly turning its head like a stage actor and his 1949 “Homage to Christopher Columbus,” which includes what seems to be a reference to slave ships. Portraits of Elvis and Dreamlike Visions at the 31st Outsider Art Fair 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z 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. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “Much less exclusive,” Mr. Baron Cohen said wryly, raising his drink. Scene City: The Vanity Fair Oscar After-Party Draws Celebrities 2014-03-05T23:34:22Z He also wryly acknowledges this show is a free gig for competition winners. Coldplay ? review 2011-07-24T17:27:01Z The elegant, wryly soft-spoken Rizzo — who favored natty pinstripe suits, silk pocket squares and French cuffs — wasn’t exactly a cookie full of arsenic. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet her narrator also possesses an outsider’s keen eye for observation, wryly commenting on the overinvolvement of Greek mothers in their sons’ lives or the excessive jewelry worn by Istanbul women. Review | ‘A Recipe for Daphne’ is a delicious debut 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the "two very different sculptures" were "wryly enigmatic in their own way". Latest Fourth Plinth works unveiled 2014-02-07T11:30:53Z Heller wryly “dubs” the face and presence of Hanks into these fictionally archival videotapes, which play a subtly major role in the film by offering a platform for Rogers to expound his philosophy. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Evans once even wryly suggested that he created — or anticipated — the Pop Art movement. A Bygone Time Captured Through the Lens of Walker Evans 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z McInerny, who now wryly describes herself as a “notable widow,” channeled her sorrow into this compassionate, darkly hilarious podcast, where people share the unvarnished truth about their darkest moments. 7 Podcasts to Soothe Your Back-to-Normal Anxiety 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Kondabolu asks wryly on “Mainstream American Comic,” in a bit poking fun at those who would shout down Black Lives Matter activists. He makes white privilege a punch line. Will America get the joke? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “I kinda wish I started my career as a baker a little earlier,” he admits wryly. Red Truck is rolling out another bakery — and thousands of holiday baked goods 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet his gangsta posturing is less affecting than the new track Daughters, wherein he wryly and self-mockingly bemoans fathering a teenager with a penchant for bad boys. Nas – review 2012-10-03T16:33:59Z From the outside, in the early ’90s, it would have been surprising to hear that Tom Petty needed reassurance from trouble and worry: The wryly grinning rock star appeared to have the Midas touch. The Raw Roots of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers,’ Revealed at Last 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “I understand artists’ egos all too well,” Ms. Dunham wryly notes. A Conversation With Nicole Eisenman and Grace Dunham 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “I did think I could stop after ‘Leopoldstadt,’” he said wryly. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “I play cute ‘ethnics’ and employ my newly invented ‘universal ethnic accent, which is a coy pidgin English of no discernible authentic origin,’ ” Moreno noted wryly in her memoir. Rita Moreno: The timeless woman in Hollywood who can’t, and won’t, stop 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Another was more glaring: “Black girl, plus harp,” she said wryly. Brandee Younger, a Harpist Finding Her Way to Jazz 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Mr. McKenzie does well by the wryly and extravagantly affected comments and edicts of the Director. Review: In ‘10 out of 12’ at Soho Rep, the Audience Tunes In to the Crew 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z He addresses the North Dakota State Legislature, or at least its empty hall, to the delight of Mr. Ness and his buddies, wryly recollecting the elections he lost. Review: In ‘Prairie Trilogy,’ All-American Stories of Socialism 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Even at an HBCU,” Atwater says wryly, “if you were caught in the practice room playing jazz, your professor went nuts.” Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Although “Selection Day” explores a different species of ambition, Adiga’s wit and raw sympathy will carry uninitiated readers beyond their ignorance of cricket — ignorance that the novel’s “Glossary of Cricketing Terms” wryly anticipates. ‘Selection Day’: Two brothers and an obsessed dad seek a ticket out of poverty 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “We’re spending a fortune to make it look like we didn’t do too much,” Friedman said wryly. | A Second Act for a Legendary San Francisco Watering Hole 2013-08-14T13:00:51Z "I couldn't be prouder and more happy that I'm actually going to finally lie next to Colin Firth, something I've been wanting to do for a very long time," Mirren said wryly. Helen Mirren "happy" her Hollywood star next to Colin Firth's 2013-01-04T00:24:39Z Thanks to the Colbert appearances, she said wryly, “People are finally taking me seriously as a comedian.” Laura Benanti Says Goodbye to Melania and Watches ‘Ted Lasso’ 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “Colin is one of my favourite names to name dogs,” he says, wryly. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z But, he says wryly, “it was the kind of publicity difficult to turn into Nielsen ratings.” Books of The Times: ?Life Itself? by Roger Ebert - Review 2011-09-22T21:53:06Z “I found it quite easy to focus,” he noted, wryly, in an email. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Smiling wryly, he then turns to face hundreds of spectators in the auditorium. This Trump Play in London Is a Comedy. Unless You’re American. 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z And in a gallery devoted to what is wryly called the mob’s “greatest hits,” the murders are mainly in cities other than Las Vegas. Museum Review: Mob Museum Opens in Las Vegas 2012-02-14T00:58:51Z “I can’t believe how many times I had to go to jail for the Highline Park to be built,” Lovell says wryly. ‘The Stroll’ Review: Telling Their Own Stories 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Caretti sees this and smiles wryly, eyebrows tipping up: “Truth be told, nature’s just as likely to set its own schedule.” Paradise found: Lago Maggiore, the ‘Eden of Italy‘ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z 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. At 101, a Survivor of Hollywood’s Golden Age Throws Down the Gauntlet 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z “I would say that almost every reaction to that album was correct,” Mr. Evans said wryly. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z “Perhaps I’m not gay after all,” he says wryly. Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In theory the characters line up in camps, with Adam and Holly wryly waving the banner of agnosticism, while the others toe the line of a literal-minded Christianity. Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed 2010-03-12T03:05:00Z When one journalist wryly suggested on Twitter that Morgan was leaving to spend more time with Internet trolls, he replied: "That's just a hobby." Piers Morgan exits CNN after turning down offer to host specials 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The former champions wryly and modestly narrate their own story in new interviews, while the movie uses chic archival footage to set up a mythic reconsideration of their triumphs. ‘The Witches of the Orient’ Review: Symphony of a Sports Team 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z This material not only proves “that Shakespeare was Shakespeare,” as Ms. Wolfe wryly put it. Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Wiley is known to draw wryly on the imagery and symbolism of long-dead European portraitists, but with African American figures in heroic array. Inspired by the Obama portrait’s ‘living wall’? Not so fast. 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “There were lots of horses in the canyon,” she observes wryly. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z “Tumbledown” wryly mines the heartache in emotional disturbances, some present from birth and the rest brought on by the business of living. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z Although she is known for playing wryly ironic characters on shows like “Parks & Recreation” and “The White Lotus,” Plaza said in her first-ever “S.N.L.” monologue that she was sincerely excited to be there as host. ‘S.N.L.’ Mocks George Santos Over and Over Again 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z While such irony makes me smile wryly, I know we live in a celebrity culture and this brings more attention to issues like equal pay, full reproductive rights, and ending violence against women. Robin Morgan on Why Feminist Is a 21st Century Word 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Later, beloved SNL vet Steve Martin took the stage and noted wryly, “Tonight is like an enormous high school reunion. … A high school that is almost all white.” 5 Essential Moments from SNL's 40th Anniversary Special 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z And, as Louis Vuitton’s men's wear director Virgil Abloh wryly noted last year, many young people “may value sneakers more than a Matisse.” The Art of the Sneaker 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z When he’s denied entry to a scaffolding convention, Wilson says wryly: “I was crushed.” The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z When the ghost of Camus sidles up from the back of the bar, the old man wryly notes: “Ha, ha, I’m his Arab. Or maybe he’s mine.” Stranger and stranger 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z When your breasts “are in work mode, they don’t get to wear nice fabrics,” she said wryly, adding that you’re “sterilizing” your breasts “by putting them in a boring white milk curtain.” Nursing Bras That Show Mothers in More Than ?Work Mode? 2011-08-31T23:07:43Z He commented wryly in 1998: "I find it rather amusing to sit through the on-screen credits today, seeing the names of 200 people doing what I once did by myself." Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:34:11Z A “Rite of Spring”-style riot, Mr. Gantner added wryly, is “every presenter’s dream.” Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z And as he wryly points out, what is the ostentatious plumage of the male peacock but nature’s bling? | 'Rap Guide to Evolution': Rapping Your Mind-State Around Darwin 2011-06-27T21:53:16Z As she wryly puts it: “States’ rights to do what?” The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth’ 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z There's a funny account of a GaySoc student meeting in the 1970s when Tim, noticing a number of actors, is wryly told: "There is some crossover with the drama society." Holding the Man 2010-05-05T20:30:00Z “I guess I kind of fooled myself into thinking the day it was released was the day I’d be able to look up and see the world again,” he laughs, wryly. The Keepers: 'I've dealt with survivors and they're sickened by the church's response' 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Elements of the intensely emotional Italian opera idiom of the mid-19th century are juxtaposed with strands of lighter, wryly comic scenes common in French grand opera of the period. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z His good looks are bleached out by bad behavior, and only his smile, wryly sweet but fleeting, restores his boyhood charm. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Joan Mora, who first began working at the Creamery when she was 14, just smiled wryly and said, “For the better.” ‘You can’t go home again’: A one-time Denver local confronts a gentrifying city 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Kathi, who plays bass, hugs her knees tighter and chuckles wryly to herself. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z Ms. Kakutani called the stories in “The Other Language” “magical” and “fleet-footed,” saying they showed off Ms. Marciano’s “sympathetic, but wryly unsentimental knowledge” of her characters. Lorrie Moore Among Finalists for Story Prize 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The difficult parts, Mr. Skelton said wryly, are “Acts 1, 2 and 3.” Taking On ‘Tristan,’ a Role That Demands Much of a Tenor 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z In the same session she wryly compared her pandemic state to a “walking pharmaceutical commercial” whose list of symptoms included crying in the shower and sending emails at 4 a.m. Surviving Fashion’s Summer From Hell 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z “There’s been,” he noted wryly, “a lot of news.” Perspective | How ‘60 Minutes’ survived CBS upheaval to become ‘the Tony Fauci of newsmagazines’ 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “We like say that we are so poor that even the mafia isn’t interested in us,” she said, wryly. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z A musical comedy set in a fairytale medieval kingdom, Galavant is a bawdy, silly musical romp that manages to be wryly self-knowing and shamelessly campy the same time. “Galavant” star Mallory Jansen: “Ricky Gervais took one look at the script and was like, alright, I got this” 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “Piercing” also leads up to a wryly funny punch line that made this viewer a little more forgiving of its plentiful affectations. ‘Piercing’ Review: A Killer Romance 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In her Newbery speech, Raskin said, wryly, that, as she wrote the novel, her “tribute to American labor history ended up a comedy in praise of capitalism.” “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Looking natty in a three-piece suit, Henley lightly drawls Capote’s narration — the popular adaptation is by Russell Vandenbroucke — sharply delivering the writer’s vivid descriptions and wryly enjoying the literary handiwork. Truman Capote done right in ‘Holiday Memories’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z As he wryly says, "the East-West border is always wandering", though Estonia is "not far from Thule", but his Selected Poems takes a different route from many poets writing under the old Soviet bloc. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z From the moment the original “plumbers” were caught, Cavett took hold of the story and did not let go, wryly interviewing politicians and pundits on the meaning and scope of the crime. TV Picks: 'Outlander,' 'Legends,' 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “I’ve been asked: How do you deal with the pressure?” he said, smiling wryly during a recent interview in the company’s Manhattan studios. Demis Volpi?s ?Private Light? at City Center 2011-11-04T20:47:50Z “The ‘Wanderer’ is too euphoric to send you home with,” Mr. Lewis said wryly from the stage, “so I must play something dark and miserable.” Music Review: Paul Lewis Shows Schubert?s Depth at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-10-19T22:26:57Z “A born-again Muslim twice my age who lived in Lahore and wanted to be in Pakistani politics isn’t any father’s idea of a perfect son-in-law for their teenage daughter,” Khan said wryly. T Magazine: The Unlikely Activist 2013-05-29T15:00:48Z “I keep praising this orchestra,” Adams, the composer, said wryly. In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Scott Fitzgerald, wryly analysing the effects of his decades-long alcoholism on his career, said it was as if he'd been asleep for 20 years. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z “I call them ‘The Black Avengers,’ ” Wolfe said wryly, sitting in a small office adjacent to the sprawling rehearsal room where “Shuffle Along” was taking shape before moving to the Music Box. George C. Wolfe: A theater man on a mission to do a forgotten show justice 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The songs were as varied as their performances, but they all felt of a piece: wryly observant, warily optimistic, asking for empathy rather than pity. Music Review: New Multitudes, Woody Guthrie Tribute Band, at Webster Hall 2012-03-15T22:29:02Z “It’s not often,” she said wryly, “we let our equipment sit unused for 18 months.” Curtains Up! How Broadway Is Coming Back From Its Longest Shutdown. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z At times, though, the storytelling in “Lifted” feels ragged, a problem amplified by a spotty microphone system that muffles dialogue, some of it wryly funny. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The city’s contradictory charms, as they are wryly termed, its fabled mix of savoir-vivre and absolute crumminess, remain in good supply. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z Mr. Gurney’s writing, as ever, is humane, well observed and sometimes wryly funny, although none of the story lines are particularly stirring, or, for that matter, original. A Revival of A. R. Gurney’s ‘Wayside Motor Inn’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A few pieces reflect his longstanding interest in television and video games; in others he tries too hard to establish his formalist bona fides wryly with riffs on abstract painting and sculpture. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z But describing him as merely a master of joke writing misses his quickness, wryly deadpan delivery and, most of all, a unique level of commitment. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z His songs were rooted in country, soul and gospel, and they strove to stay plain-spoken and succinct, whether he was singing wryly about everyday life or musing on philosophy and faith. Jesse Winchester, Writer and Singer of Thoughtful Songs, Dies at 69 2014-04-11T23:53:26Z We see no more of the style until the end of the show, when Lichtenstein wryly honors it with cartoon depictions of swashbuckling brushstrokes against Benday-dot backgrounds. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z He's a fan of Argo and takes a wryly amused view of how it burnishes the truth to dramatic effect. The truth behind Affleck's Argo 2013-01-14T00:55:56Z Soon after Dictionary.com wryly sarcastically the definition of self-made. "Breaking Big" corrects the myths that make Kylie Jenner a "self-made" success 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z The inescapable contradictions of a Cold War-era tour of Leningrad and Moscow in the mid-1950s were chronicled wryly by Truman Capote. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Montague was on hawkish form, accusing Miliband 2 of hypocrisy and wryly commenting: "So your pitch is, 'I was wrong, vote for me'?" Today; Bringing Up Britain; Radcliffe and Maconie; Front Row 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z “I wrote six songs that weekend,” Mr. Cole noted wryly — they included the powerful “Neighbors,” from the new album. J. Cole, the Platinum Rap Dissident, Steps Back From the Spotlight 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The device is held by a member of the company, Victoria Biran, who stands in profile with a wryly respectful expression that acknowledges and absorbs the everyday surrealism in which this troupe exists. Banned in Belarus, but the Shows Go On 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Harrison said wryly that the film "at times bore a faint resemblance to the book". Harry Harrison 1925 - 2012 2012-08-15T12:28:38Z The studio demurred – “They didn’t really want a fear-based character at the centre of their movie,” he says wryly – and Hartnett walked away. Josh Hartnett: 'People genuinely thought I'd been thrust on them' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z As a Japanese diplomat wryly told his Western counterparts: “We show ourselves at least your equals in scientific butchery and are at once admitted to your council tables as civilized men.” A Historian Explains What Civilization Owes to War 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “He regrets it now,” Lapine said wryly outside the rehearsal room on the Beaumont roof a few weeks ago. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z When a few women shouted, he responded wryly: “No, this is like 1912. Women don’t count.” Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z "At one time he and I were not so friendly," Birkhead admits, rather wryly. Larry Birkhead opens up about life after Anna Nicole 2010-05-12T22:50:00Z Queen Camilla, wryly smiling throughout, seemed to be having more fun. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “The show didn’t work out,” he says wryly. Kelsey Grammer 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z Of her prior avoidance of the play, she noted wryly: “I lived my artistic life in blasphemy!” Perspective | An ‘Our Town’ for our time, staged in the New England community that inspired it 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z This campy apparatus wryly skewers its legacy as aristocratic passenger disability. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilmore smiled and interjected wryly, “All diseases do kind of matter.” Larry Wilmore Makes Debut as Comedy Central Host 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The book wryly notes what Esherick, who died in 1970, would have thought of scholars poring through his correspondence and seeking meaning in his furniture forms. Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy 2010-09-02T20:39:00Z “Nobody likes us very much right now,” he admitted wryly, though he was scornful of Robson’s accusations. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z "None of this is new," said Marriage wryly. Lyn Gardner's theatre roundup: Why is theatre so male, white and middle-class? 2012-07-02T14:04:57Z A purveyor of wryly hilarious tales of jammed-up guys, somewhat twisted fables but with the ring of behavioral truth, Smith is making an imaginative leap here. New Matt Smith character hopes 'All My Children' are out there, somewhere 2010-05-27T20:19:00Z They “didn’t leave a calling card or manifesto,” she said wryly. Seattle’s iconic Bettie Page mural, visible from I-5, defaced with homemade paint bombs 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z "I would challenge someone to identify it when they taste it," Manion adds wryly. This red chimichurri has a dirty little ‘90s secret 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Saunders feels under no particular pressure to turn out another "nine, 12, 15" books since, he says wryly, "I think I'll probably still die at the end." George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z Other selections in the book delve into human nature more wryly. Lessons in travel — and bravura writing — from ‘The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years’ 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z “I don’t think I like this game,” Ross wryly told the room. Perspective | How Broadway is working to ensure covid doesn’t bring the curtain down again 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z "He hunted every month with an 'R' in it," my mother says wryly when I asked her about it. A Thanksgiving hunt to remind ourselves that dinner means death 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z It's not that he's a morbid guy; he's just wryly aware of his musical legacy. Hitmaker Mark Ronson unveils his "Record Collection" 2010-09-26T19:17:00Z The silent juxtaposition of scale and blue chip wryly identifies weightiness with quality. 'Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album' buoyed by photos with cinematic insight 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The piece's busy patterns and responses, lightly balanced between the airily abstract and the wryly human, were pulled off with a lithe and colorful flourish. Cornish College of the Arts presents a Merce Cunningham 'minEvent' 2011-02-01T01:01:29Z “I noticed that triads are acceptable,” she said wryly. Finally, a Stage for Female Composers From Iran 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z With his wryly lucid prose, Bryson documents the attempts, both successful and failed, to learn more about the human body in all its glorious complexity. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z "When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame," he observed wryly. He called it, and now Silver's a pop-culture star 2012-11-09T19:29:10Z “Limbo,” written and directed by a ferociously talented filmmaker, Ben Sharrock, takes an insinuating, poetic and often wryly funny approach. ‘Limbo’ Review: A Musician in Exile Tunes Out 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Joseph O'Neill seems to channel Flann O'Brien as he wryly portrays himself as only "doing fiction" to "escape the difficulties", creative and financial, of doing non-fiction or poetry. Leading writers publish bad reviews of themselves 2013-03-25T12:09:39Z “After writing almost anonymously” for decades Mr. Leonard wryly noted in 1996, “I am what you call an overnight success.” Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z “The archives,” Jones said wryly, “are full of junk mail.” An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z He casts a stern impression, but you can hear an eyebrow wryly raised. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z As Adgate wryly noted: "What a network considers an event and what a viewer considers an event may be different." Broadcasters think sports and live specials will be must-see TV 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z “It is pretty, dare I say, f**king bad,” Wagner says wryly. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z He doesn’t lie when asked about his age, though he wryly notes that his managers have explicitly instructed him to do so. Rise of the Zombeavers: Hollywood Sinks Its Teeth into the Micro-Budget Movie 2013-07-31T09:45:40Z “There was zero urgency for Kevin to make an album, and that is a beautiful place to be as a songwriter,” Crutchfield said, wryly laughing by phone. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Hemsworth also wryly thanked "all the other previous intelligent men, because this is based on an IQ test, not just physical appearance." Australian actor Chris Hemsworth named 'sexiest man alive' by People magazine 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z On “Halls of Sarah,” Ms. Case adds wryly: “You see our poets/do an odious business/loving womankind.” How Neko Case Finally Unleashed Her Feminist Rage 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z It opens with the voice of a man wryly narrating a fictional encounter in which he is asked to leave an airplane for “speaking Arabian.” The Scion of a Pakistani Political Dynasty Comes Out 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In 2011 she held a fundraiser to pay off campaign debts, with an invitation that wryly claimed she was headed for bankruptcy. Oona King: 'I couldn't resist Dancing On Ice' 2013-01-04T22:00:02Z “Since you’re trying to torture me,” Mr. Scholl answered wryly, “our new site is one of the highest points in Miami-Dade County. It is 11 feet above sea level,” practically Mount Everest by local standards. A Cinderella Story for the Miami Art Scene’s New $100 Million Player 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Chatting wryly between song after spine-tinglingly perfect song, she was so composed and quietly assured that, at certain points, you could sense a collective swoon. Mercurial Marling 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z It's also a very male show, something Milch wryly acknowledges. A change in Luck 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z The client apologized and explained wryly that he had been dealing with “all the trouble being caused right now by your institution.” Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z 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. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “So far,” Mr. Cavett said wryly, “it’s always the other one.” Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z They discover many details of their lives are similar, except where, as Ruth wryly intones at a horrifying revelation by Minnie, "Here our stories diverge." Review: Lucas' 'The Lying Lesson' a gentle comedy 2013-03-14T00:33:12Z Don't give his Super-8 films short shrift: they are wryly intriguing and make imaginative use of materials. Datebook: Word paintings, dance on film, and art about roller skating 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “We call ourselves the Three Crazy Musketeers,” he says wryly. ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Filipino opera will tell moving tale at Kennedy Center Trying to de-escalate the debate, Femi wryly observes of the first “Panther” movie, “It made a billion dollars.” ‘88’ Review: Finding Hate in Numbers 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z When it became clear that “Modern Family” was running the table, Ms. Lynch wryly announced after a break, “Welcome back to the ‘Modern Family’ Awards.” The TV Watch: Veiled Apologies and Few Surprises 2011-09-19T04:28:08Z “Baggage” also brims with incidents that are objectively trivial, but so colorful and wryly recalled that they’re entertaining. Review | Alan Cumming gets chummy in his gossipy and insightful book ‘Baggage’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z He presses the issue, wryly, or, rather, in a tone that he believes to be wry. Review: ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ Takes 2 Alcoholics and Chronicles the Tedium of Their Lives 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In other words, it’s about the cosmic, a theme that wryly informs the whole season. On ‘Better Things,’ a Small Story Goes Out With a Big Bang 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Rather, Kinsley is intent on being wryly realistic about coping with illness and the terminal prospects ahead. Michael Kinsley’s ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Eventually, he said wryly, “I’ll get a lot of frequent flier miles, I guess.” Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z For the last four seasons, he’s shone as the wryly acerbic Chief Deputy U.S. Versatile Nick Searcy shines in FX’s ‘Justified’ 2013-03-25T20:40:19Z Mr. Segal wryly chided the dealer, “Never lose a sale.” On the Trail of the Sale at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Unspooling, Manchester The contemporary artists showing in this wryly amusing exhibition display an ambivalent attitude towards the history of film that shifts between homage and parody. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z "We've seen a lot of her front door," said Allen wryly. Jeremy Vine; Drive; Charles Hawtrey: That Funny Fella With the Glasses; When the Dog Dies; Today 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z He also brought his impassive baritone, his acoustic guitar, a pair of low-key sidemen and his wryly philosophical tunes, which was plenty enough. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z Levin is an appealing guy, wryly funny, who deep down isn't all that good. Aleksandar Hemon's 'Zombie Wars' springs to humorous life unexpectedly 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z She then wryly adds: “Leaks, holes. Even the paint’s trying to run away from this place.” Review: In ‘Exit Strategy,’ Scrambling Before School’s Out Forever 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It is, she informs us wryly, just an ad for mobile phones. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Still, the book artfully reveals a Saudi kingdom that is “not only deserts and camels and oil sheikhs,” as one character wryly states. Review | Eman Quotah’s engrossing debut, ‘Bride of the Sea,’ offers Americans a nuanced view of the Saudi Kingdom 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z He noted wryly that he was turned down for the first job he applied for at The Post in 2004 — editor of nonfiction book reviews. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Rooney spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for "60 Minutes." Andy Rooney dead at 92 2011-11-05T11:25:00Z “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. London Art Auctions Feel a ‘Brexit’ Chill 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z As the actor still wryly notes in his Twitter bio, he’s considered by some fans to be among the elements that “ruined The West Wing.” 6 TV Recap Podcasts for Better Binge Viewing 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “It was the first dress I made in my life, 25 feet across,” Mr. Pierre said wryly, “and I’m just speaking of the width of the lady’s bosom.” The Man Who Dressed Melania Trump for the Ball 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “It was just the two of us, like a Pinter play or something,” Mr. McDonagh said wryly. John Michael McDonagh Carves His Own Niche With ‘Calvary’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But he notes wryly that reuniting the family once a year isn’t a bad motivation, either. Pasty cookoff: A family tradition, stuffed with taunts Really what we’re praising here verges on literary fiction — speckled with wryly observed details and ironic encounters but drenched mostly in one heartache after another. Better-than-ever ‘Transparent’ transitions into a study of American Jewish-ness 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Her subject, she observed wryly in her preface to “Things Have Changed,” a mysterious song from the movie “Wonder Boys,” is “not really in touch with his feminine side.” Music Review: Barb Jungr Interprets Dylan at Metropolitan Room - Review 2011-10-19T23:01:02Z Fast paced, surprisingly light in tone, emotionally cool, wryly humorous — these uncanny tales, often just one or two pages long, might almost be adult bedtime stories. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Voice is key in an introspective, meandering narrative such as this, and Bennett’s is wryly intelligent. The innovative, beguiling reflections of Claire-Louise Bennett's 'Pond' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It is a label as wryly iconoclastic as its guiding force, a quiet but opinionated figure who favors flannel and a knit cap and started the label back in 2003 fully expecting it to fail. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z But looking back wryly weeks ago on the original production, Mr. Wise recalled that it did not seem destined for greatness. ‘I, Claudius’ Returns in a 35th-Anniversary DVD Set 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z “I couldn’t get arrested at the time,” she said wryly. ‘The Doors Didn’t Open Easily’ on Her Path to ‘Cinderella’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z She wore “a lot” of clothes to go to his suite, she says wryly. Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It is a rare day, Ms. Bridges said wryly, that she is not mistaken for some sort of patient. At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z Not that the Glaswegian quintet seem concerned about its success: "We might not storm the charts completely," frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell notes wryly in Every Weekday, "but we'll do our very best." Camera Obscura: Desire Lines – review 2013-05-30T20:15:01Z “If you were suffering from fern fever madness, you’d be in heaven,” she said wryly. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z She responded wryly to condolences offered solely for the loss of her mother. Maria on ‘Sesame Street,’ Sonia Manzano, Tells of Her Own Childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Watching food preparation in a cavernous, bustling restaurant in Suzhou, Antonioni wryly admits that it was the Chinese who invented fettuccine. Forgotten Masterpiece: Antonioni’s Travelogue From China 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “The most exciting thing on AI’s frontier is not advertisement optimization,” she says, wryly. Why this AI pioneer is calling for 'human centered' computing 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z "I don't want any more traumas to come out," she acknowledges, as she smiles wryly. Rina Sawayama: Therapy made me realise I was groomed at 17 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z A social media user asked wryly, "Why would I pay 28 yuan for tomato with seasoning?" Fukushima: China's anger at Japan is fuelled by disinformation 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Following China's announcement on Thursday, many Japanese on Twitter even celebrated the ban - wryly suggesting it could mean cheaper fish at home. Fukushima: The fishy business of China's outrage over Japan's release 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z “Those had to be staged; I don’t think there’s an ethical argument for showing real child fatalities on screen,” he wryly states. Static camera angles, minimal lens changes and limited lighting sets this 'Barry' scene 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The conclusion in the report of Reviewer Gamma wryly noted that this match, if true, would herald a major discovery — “a novel universality in nature” that different materials under different conditions behave the same. A Looming Retraction Casts a Shadow Over a Field of Physics 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Another Instagram user wryly compared the current political situation to spilling tea, or sharing gossip. Singapore: City-state rocked by rare political scandals 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “Yes, I’m going to be a millionaire,” Tom said wryly, “but I’ll also be homeless.” Where have all the camellias gone? A bittersweet end for historic Nuccio's Nurseries 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Asked what he would do with a billion dollars, Shanosky said wryly that he would not be going back to work. US Powerball jackpot hits $1 billion 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Zorin’s dismantled bicycle is stowed away in the apartment, and Ms. Timofeyeva pointed to it wryly as evidence of his innocence. ‘Urban Explorers’ and Accused Spies Chafe in Legal Limbo in Albania 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “It was Cannes,” he said wryly a few weeks later, dropping his voice to gravelly depth on “Cannes” before twitching up that famous grin. There will never be another Harrison Ford 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z But while Ben’s not always a sympathetic character, he does always remains relatable, in a wryly comic way. Review: Shia LaBeouf stars in Abel Ferrara's ahistorical historical drama 'Padre Pio' 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z This was originally meant to be his first film score, but Salonen has wryly said that when he found out that the movie would be 45% sex scenes, he didn’t feel quite up to it. Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen's organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Asked how he acquired his Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifle, he replied wryly: "The cheapest thing you can buy here is a weapon." Sudan's Darfur fighting: Why an accountant took up arms 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z "Is this the Eurovision Song Contest final?" a regular asked wryly. Eurovision euphoria on the streets of Liverpool for host city's big night 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Most are wryly amusing in their own way. Spate of exotic bird thefts leaves SoCal parrot lovers on edge 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Because she was childless, Dederer wryly notes, Mitchell “was able to be difficult and problematic — code words for being creative while female.” Review | Turns out, your favorite artist is a creep or a criminal. Now what? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Reflecting on his efforts to decode potato spindle tuber disease, he wryly told the New York Times, “we went up the garden path many times.” Theodor Diener, scientist who discovered the tiny viroid, dies at 102 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The result, wryly titled “Connor’s Wedding,” was a fascinating and brutal piece of television. Perspective | ‘Succession’ goes for the kill 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z “Well, whether they’re right or not, which means they agree with me,” she told the Times wryly in 2004, “food writers in general devote too much space to chefs’ philosophies. Mimi Sheraton, innovative food writer and critic, dies at 97 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Now 43, she has four children, a job as an art teacher, a prosthetic left limb — which she wryly calls her “good leg” — and an outlook that is both hopeful and haunted. In Northern Ireland Town, Painful Memories Lie Beneath a Fragile Peace 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z "What can we do? There are no children in this town. I mean, there are barely any people living here," said Jayadevi R, the principal, wryly. Kerala: A ghost town in the world's most populated country 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z One older woman, asked for her age, could only say wryly: “Too old.” This Revolutionary Stroke Treatment Will Save Millions of Lives. Eventually. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Scheinert wryly recalls telling cast and crew on set: “We’re not making an Oscar movie here. This movie is about quantity, not quality.” The Oscar universe belongs to ‘Everything Everywhere’ 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “Not a problem,” I answered, before Molly and I hit the road to do what she wryly termed “drive-through costuming.” How clothes and white hair turned Meryl Streep into Miranda Priestly 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Film composer Carter Burwell, a nominee for the third time for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” wryly acknowledged the background hum of competition. Inside the 2023 Oscar nominees luncheon: Stars mix and mingle 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Adding that he would veto any effort to cut Social Security and Medicare, he added wryly, "But apparently it's not going to be a problem." SOTU fallout: Kevin McCarthy's Medicare face-plant 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Adding that he would veto any effort to cut Social Security and Medicare, he added wryly, “But apparently it’s not going to be a problem.” Biden, in State of the Union, mixes bipartisanship with defiance 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Of a man she meets in town, Greta observes wryly: “He was a baker but called himself a maker.” Review | ‘Big Swiss’ is a sharp wellness satire and coming-of-age story 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z One wrote wryly: “The U.S., because of the balloon incident, delays Blinken’s visit to China.” China plays down Blinken’s canceled visit over balloon 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z “It is relatively easy for me to get investment support because my track record is extremely good,” Musk wryly observed. Elon Musk’s mysterious ways on display in Tesla tweet trial 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Sitting inside the custom sound studio he built within the garage of his family’s home in the South Bay, Thes smiles wryly: “Our career arc was comically unbelievable.” A hip-hop sendoff like no other: How Thes One turned tragedy into an extraordinary album 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Marsh’s tone is measured, clear, sometimes wryly humorous, as he looks at himself, his foibles, his mistakes and decisions. ‘And Finally’ review: A neurosurgeon becomes the patient 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Modestly dressed in a manner conforming to Castiglione’s advice, she smiles wryly, as if inviting us to interpret a puzzle. Perspective | Michelangelo praised her. Van Dyck painted her. We’re the fools who forgot her. She noted wryly that the people who cared most for the roosters were her and the cockfighters. Cockfighting Is Illegal in the U.S. Why Does It Breed so Many Fighting Birds? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z China, she wryly notes, “has spent more money on domestic security than on the military — and China’s defense budget is the second largest in the world.” Review | 2 wonderful new books take armchair travelers to the Himalayas 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Duncan wryly noted that Mr. Gaetz’s supporting cast in the revolt against Mr. McCarthy included 11 members who are either freshmen or have served only one term. From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z When asked about his illustrious family pedigree, Mr. Thayer wryly pointed to Judge Webster Thayer, who sentenced Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to death after their murder convictions in 1921. Nate Thayer, journalist who landed Pol Pot interview, dies at 62 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z A septuagenarian at the time, Berger wryly suggested that if he was proved wrong, people come find him to discuss it; he died a few years later. Greatest market forecast ever might keep you calm for 2023 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z “I couldn’t think of a better place to be stranded,” Migliorini said wryly. Horror stories, misery at LAX and Burbank airport as Southwest meltdown strands thousands 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z But not so much that you look surprised, Dee notes wryly. New tech helps reverse the effects of time on your face | Provided by Glow Medispa 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Both warnings, with their implicit calls for reform, “were a few decades off,” Doyle noted, wryly. As enrollment falls and skepticism grows, some colleges are cutting prices 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “Loudmouth” is the wryly admiring title director Josh Alexander has given his documentary about Sharpton. Review: Al Sharpton documentary 'Loudmouth' is a profile in one voice — his 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Hearing Gunn-Wright wryly dismantle a glib online post by an ExxonMobil lobbyist is priceless, and how she talks about poverty and her child’s future is equally illuminating. Review: Change is hard. 'To the End' documents a fearless foursome tackling the climate crisis 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z When he sees the Bentley, he thinks wryly, “Crime paid, fighting it didn’t.” Kate Atkinson dazzles with ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z But as a Ukrainian comedian wryly puts it in a scene from an underground stand-up show, how can an already-free people be liberated? Review: 'Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' arrives with gritty urgency 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z During his Oxford days, Wilson began wearing his hallmark uniform — a three-piece suit, which he wryly refers to as his “A.N. Wilson outfit.” Review | You don’t have to be an Anglophile to love A.N. Wilson 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The rioters, he said, were “a lot of old guys,” noting wryly, “I’m indicted with them.” Ex-intel officer downplays Jan. 6 violence as Oath Keepers defendants testify 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Surely, your gift recipient will at least smile, wryly or otherwise. Adults need toys, too: Some holiday gift suggestions 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Bail wryly adds, "I would love for Mr. Musk to learn from the many talented social scientists inside Twitter, but also from the broader field of computational social science." What's behind Elon's Twitter disaster? A fundamental misunderstanding of "free speech" 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Where does Russia’s territory end, asked one man wryly on Twitter, using an expletive to write: “Where it hasn’t been beaten.” Putin’s Name Is Absent as Russians Discuss Retreat in Ukraine 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “Have people heard that I’ve had a stroke?” he asked wryly near the beginning of that appearance. For Fetterman, Campaign Trail Doubles as Road to Recovery 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z “It makes her feel good about her parenting choices,” Ms. Jong-Fast said, wryly. How Molly Jong-Fast Tweeted Her Way to Liberal Media Stardom 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Perry’s wryly conversational and self-deprecating style will seem familiar to “Friends” viewers, like a smarter version of Chandler wrote a book. Review | In Matthew Perry’s memoir, a need for fame leads to 65 rehab stints 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Nealon wryly acknowledges that developing his eye for caricature has affected him: “Whenever I’m walking around, I don’t see people in their regular form. I see them with their exaggerated features.” Kevin Nealon has a new comedic outlet: Painting celebrity caricatures 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z He once wryly remarked, “I became a world-renowned expert on U.F.O.s — unfortunately.” James A. McDivitt, Key Commander in Early NASA Triumphs, Dies at 93 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z He smiled and added wryly: “Try not to dress too American.” An American in Ukraine Finds the War He’s Been Searching For 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The Canadian actor, 20, recalls growing up with the fourth iteration of the toy line that included what she wryly calls “the O.G.’s of Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash, my personal favorite.” Maitreyi Ramakrishnan shifts from Devi to ‘My Little Pony’ 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z But, he added wryly: “It’s one thing to be a patriot in Kyiv. It’s another to be a patriot in the Donbas.” The ‘Wild Field’ Where Putin Sowed the Seeds of War 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z In the case of Munroe, at least: No. He takes a second to do some “mild subtraction,” he says wryly, to absolutely confirm his reply: He is 37. The world’s funniest former NASA roboticist will take your questions 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z He had been thinking of planting potatoes this year, he said wryly, but now perhaps he should turn to raising fish instead. Nighttime rocket strikes spread fear in east Ukrainian city 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Her recently deposed predecessor, Boris Johnson, noted wryly that the queen “saw off her 14th prime minister,” after he submitted his resignation to her at Balmoral on Tuesday. Charles, in First Speech as King, Pledges a Reign of Service to Britain 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child,” Mr. Bush noted wryly. The Queen Met 13 Sitting U.S. Presidents, Who Basked in Her Global Prestige 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z "I think that when we win, Kyiv will shoot skyward like a rocket… although I don't know how great that analogy is right now," he observed wryly. Kyiv ravers escape horrors of war through music 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z “A Jew in the South,” Mr. Evans once wryly remarked to the New York Times, “is always teaching.” Eli Evans, ‘poet laureate’ of the Jews of the South, dies at 85 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “The talk about my resignation,” he said wryly, “is just like the rumor that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to give me an interview.” Fears for independent media in India as tycoon eyes major news channel 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “Our parents prayed at the temple, the mosque, the church, thanking the Lord for the misfortune of others,” they continue wryly. Review: Wrapped inside a dystopian novel, an epic of 'radical compassion' 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z For starters, Mr. Vucic noted wryly in an interview in the library of the presidential palace this month, “I am almost two meters tall.” Serbia’s Leader Rejects ‘Little Putin’ Label Amid Fears of Russian Meddling 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “There’s no official, is the great thing about English,” she writes, in a sentence that wryly practices what it preaches. Review | Reader does this question need a comma? A new book offers grammar help. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Grassley wryly noted that compared to relatively few mentions of counterfeit pills, the phrase “harm reduction” appeared 198 times in the new strategy. Biden’s Drug Czar Is Leading the Charge for a ‘Harm Reduction’ Approach 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Sketch artists captured him slumped in his chair or cringing wryly. John Froines, chemist charged in ‘Chicago Seven’ trial, dies at 83 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z He wryly rejected his nickname, the Buddha, since he felt that he was far from attaining spiritual certainty and, indeed, didn’t think any certainty was possible. Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Reflecting on the conflict between her parents, Sophie Freud wryly observed that her grandfather did “not believe in marital therapy, at least in this case.” Sophie Freud, professor who challenged her grandfather’s doctrine, dies at 97 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z As Bell noted wryly, its partisans stood ready “to jettison constitutional processes and to suspend liberties, to condone Communist methods in the fighting of Communism.” A 1955 book on right-wing extremists predicted the Jan. 6 attack 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z A decade ago, in his early 20s, he was “not in a period of perfect functioning,” he said wryly. Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In this wryly perceptive slice of only slightly exaggerated life, no good deed goes unpunished — or potentially distorted through the lens of bias, self-protection, tribal loyalties or trauma. Review | ‘Emergency’ is a college party comedy with teeth 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Asked if the situation was frustrating for himself and fellow players, Muncy wryly smiled. 'Hitters are not getting rewarded.' How the Dodgers are dealing with deadened baseballs 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Dr. Fryer was giddy as he left the stage, so exhilarated that, before returning to Philadelphia, he splurged on a manual harpsichord, which he wryly described as “among the least wise choices of my life.” He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z “The most blood I had ever seen was in a piercing,” he said wryly. They fell deeply in love in Bucha. One Russian bullet ended it all. 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Kempton’s lawyer, played by a wryly bemused Matthew Goode, humors his client by arguing that the Goya wasn’t stolen so much as borrowed. Review | ‘The Duke’ delivers a sweet message: I am you, and you are me 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “Well,” Mr. Mills said wryly, “I can tell you, that may or may not be true.” Cultivating Coveted Morels Year-Round and Indoors 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Or as Koplowitz wryly put it, “You can die from exposure. No one is asking the craft services team or the camera crew to donate their work for free.” Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a music supervisor 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z “The ‘Russian world,’ they say,” she said, wryly invoking Putin’s nationalist justification for invading Ukraine. Ukraine seeks tough reply after missile kills 52 at station 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “But,” he adds wryly, “I really hope that someone will find a way to download it illegally and put it on a wall somewhere.” ‘Flee’ makes Oscar history, and resonates with the refugee crises 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z “I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked to set up an interview with a drug lord,” he said wryly. ‘Fixer’ killed in Ukraine was doing a vital, thankless journalism job 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z "I went into early menopause at 29. So that was delightful," she says wryly. Ukraine: Impossible choices for surrogate mothers and parents 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z |
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