Sentences with phrase «with wry smiles»

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.»

His methods were fresh and his style of storytelling was wonderfully mad, punctuated with wry smiles and knowing winks.

«A lot of the U.S. doesn't support chip and pin yet... although the CEO of Target is reconsidering that,» he said with a wry smile.

«I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel,» says Adichie with a wry smile, «I told him that I had just read a novel called «American Psycho» and that it was such a shame that young Americans were murderers.»

«Sometimes when you laugh at something, it reveals how terrible it is,» Donohue said with a wry smile.

(imagine said in a pompous French accent with a wry smile)

«ESPN.com changes its coverage plans each season depending on what teams matter to our national audience,» Nichols said on Monday's show with a wry smile.

I know Jack has six but there's nothing I can do about that right now,» Mickelson, with a wry smile, cracked.

When told the Valtteri's reaction time was just 0.201 of a second, Vettel simply said «Hmmm, I don't believe that,» with a wry smile on his face.

«I think that was the first comment I made in the first round I played with Jordan: «I could be your dad,»» the 40 - year - old Swede with the dry wit added with a wry smile.

Leeds About Blog Football365.com covers British and European football with a wry smile on its face.

While also admitting - with a wry smile - that some of his colleagues still need to be convinced.

Watson bats away such talk with a wry smile.

«It's mostly a matter of not dying,» Stephen Ellner, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, said with a wry smile.

«They can be told about good and evil,» Damasio says with a wry smile, «but good and evil might not stick.»

You may not walk away with the trophy for originality and it ranks a little too highly on the cringe - o - meter, but if uttered sparingly and with a wry smile (ideally while presenting her with breakfast in bed), you might be onto a winner.

(As dean, I used to give this get - rich - here speech to students, and I knew I was «getting through» when a student with a wry smile told me, «I've now heard your pitch three times.»)

With a wry smile, I look at Elliot who shares my expression.

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.»

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

For maximum effect, «darlin» is best uttered with a wry half - smile and a southern drawl.

We start off in the middle of a jail - break in 1933, where Dillinger (Depp) removes his cohorts with swift abandon (and a wry smile) out of Indiana State Penitentiary.

Its all wry that's - just - like - us smiles, with maybe just one or two laughs, but exercising your empathy leaves you feeling good nonetheless and it's OK to see again.

Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.

Warming up the crowd with his famous Ted talk spam email routines proved successful, as his justice - serving online antics were rewarded with everything from wry smiles as punch lines were slowly figured out to outright guffaws.

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

And when Herrera talks about this work, it's often with a little bit of a smile, a wry sense of humor that she's created a very simple geometric, clean, spare painting but that it's a barbecue, as she says.

Something wry tugs at the corners of her mouth, leaving her with neither a smile nor a frown.

In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique because we only have one experiment, and think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).