Sentences with phrase «with wry»

Cue contestants mentioning their intentions to create their own BBB with a wry grin at least once an episode.

In fact, Fox concludes his introduction to the book with the wry observation that if you haven't felt a strong bond with one or more of the places profiled, you might as well close the book and stay where you are.

She speaks clearly of the importance of maintaining a healthy balance between work and leisure, and then notes with a wry smile that «cell phones don't work in the woods.»

«I don't know how easy it would be to sell this place as prone as it is to flooding now,» she said with a wry laugh.

She admitted, with a wry laugh, that the collaborative process helped her realize that she «needed to love her child more than she hated her husband.»

«One of the things I learned going through my divorce that way was that I needed to love my child more than I hated my husband,» said Robyn Ross with a wry laugh.

Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999 — which, to be frank, was way before most people cared about such things.

Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999 — which, to be frank, was way before most people cared about such things.

Covert criticism of BCash is not in short supply, with a wry explanation of the impetus to create the forking tool gracing the homepage.

The response: a long pause as the engineers in the room looked at each other with wry grins on their faces.

New Math is a website where Craig Damrauer makes language sub for numbers and comes up with some wry products.

You have likely said it yourself, usually with a wry chuckle or a heavy sigh to indicate the impossibility of it ever happening, or at least happening any time soon.

Rajendra Singh is a quiet revolutionary with a wry sense of humor.

Then with a wry smile, he added: «79 percent of all wind power installations in the U.S. are in Republican Congressional districts,» such as Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, North and South Dakota, and Iowa.

With a wry and poignant twist, artist Hannah Rothstein has reimagined the great WPA posters once used to lure visitors to the splendors of U.S. National Parks.

«It sucked,» he said, with a wry smile.

Oehlen - amongst the pre-eminent painters of his generation - pushes the boundaries of his medium to straining point, continuously challenging the canons of painting with a wry humour and brazen originality.

Both works exist formally on their own accord, however each houses a subversive support structure that seems to drip with wry, self aware humor.

They find her exposing chauvinism and clubbiness within this conceptual - art center, sometimes posing as a man in drag, and always with wry humor.

There's nothing inherently wrong with wry distance or self - conscious irony; they're part of life.

With wry wit and a formalist approach Erwin Wurm uses simple materials and everyday objects in his performances, photography, video, installations and large freestanding sculptures, all presented in this inaugural exhibition.

Colescott's work addresses racial tensions usually with a wry sense of irony.

Small - scale and composed of humble materials like graph paper, colored paper, and pencil, Thomas's thought - provoking work exudes an understated anxiety tempered with wry humor.

She observed with wry understatement, «The Charity Commission said you didn't quite follow the rules here.»

But as the artist has stated, with a wry quip; once a movement is named it's dead; «it's always worth remembering that as soon as a movement is named you know it's over,» he said.

A successful artist in his thirties, though not yet represented in the Tate collection, Johnson explores the «black experience» with wry objectivity.

A rave review in Artforum described Mira's nudes as «dominant players, staring us down with wry smiles and forceful beauty... these neon deities strut with their own lurid force and elegant autonomy.»

Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist - realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called, a «gorgeous bleakness.»

Spanning almost two decades, from 1972 to 1989, these deceptively simple works on paper show Ruppersberg dealing with themes similar to those of his contemporaries — appropriation, language, identity, authenticity — but with a wry, nostalgic sensibility all his own.

In the section UIA: (Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract) the works are more planned and delivered with wry while taking on paintings interpretive possibilities.

An everyman's existentialist, Damien Hirst's focus on death and the grisly are always undertaken with a wry sense of humor.

Some 50 years later, Margarita Cabrera also makes soft sculpture, but updated with wry awareness of poor working conditions in factories, in Mexico and elsewhere, supplying the U.S. market.

«One curator said that I'm my own worst enemy,» she said with a wry smile.

With wry looks and evasive gazes, they appear thoughtful and pre-occupied with fully formed interior lives.

Catch As Catch Can inhabits a gap between parody and seriousness, consorting and mingling with sculpture, film, graphic design, and poetry, but always with a wry yet beholden eye towards painting and its terms and limits.

Although he seemed a bit awkward in front of an audience, he punctuated his stories with wry observations that drew appreciative laughter.

He manages to weave bright, bold colours into banal situations and imbues almost everything he does with a wry sense of humour.

«I never thought I would live this long,» Ed Moses said with a wry grin.

«We have said very clearly that Tomb Raider will be coming holiday 2015 exclusively to Xbox,» says Harrison with a wry, deliberate smile.

«That has nothing to do with me,» he said with a wry smile.

Set in a gothic - noir universe that resembes 19th century Europe and filled with monsters, magic and strange technology, the game promises an engrossing storyline filled with wry humour and snappy dialogue as Van Helsing makes his way to Borgovia where he is to join forces with where former supernatural foes have enlisted his help to defeat a new evil.

Cats are also affected with wry bites that are uneven.

We banks don't like people like them,» he said with a wry smile.

He did this with a wry sense of humor that those who were privileged to know him personally will never forget.

For example, my much loved grandmother had overcome a restrictive religious background, while still quoting many homilies to me, with a wry smile.

Literary agent Jason Allen Ashlock — whose Movable Type Management has created the new Rogue Reader author collective — told the room with a wry smile that an author working alone in the business today may not be adept at what's needed, «no matter how many times you've read Guy Kawasaki's book.»

He packs them in and laces his PowerPoint slides with wry humor and a clear concern for what many authors are up against these days.

With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

Palmer tweaks the traditional family saga with wry social commentary and tinges of malevolence as brooding as an English winter rain.

Hocking is very aware of the paradox, which she observes with a wry writer's eye.