Sentences with word «wry»

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

Holaday was biting his lower lip as well, talking to his coaches and wearing the type of wry smile coaches flash when they know their teams have let one slip away.

He has a very wry sense of humor, and people don't understand it right away.

Set in a gothic - noir universe resembling a fantastical 19th century Europe filled with monsters, magic, and weird technology, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing will follow the son of the famed hunter, known in - game as Van Helsing, in a tale wrought with wry humor and snappy dialogue.

Their kinship is perhaps best captured by their own wry comments on their process, which Reinhardt described as «boring, drudging,» and Baer as «idiot work.»

There are many, many moments in Hag - Seed when the reader — who will get more out of the novel if she has seen or read the original play though it's not necessary to enjoy the book — will no doubt smile in wry recognition as Atwood appropriates Shakespeare's plot twists and characters for her contemporary story.

Written in a straightforward manner with touches of wry wit, Jack's stories unfold with the economy and assurance that readers expect of Babbitt.

His follow - up to his Sundance Grand Prize - winning breakthrough film Forty Shades of Blue is an ambitious challenge: a 1940s melodrama of adultery and murder played as wry comedy of manners and directed in a naturalistic style with a modern sensibility.

Yet even as «Beach Rats» hovers in Frankie's troubled perspective, Hittman's screenplay is riddled with wry observations about sexual identity as it's understood through her characters» vernacular.

But writer - director John Michael McDonagh — brother of the English playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh (In Bruges)-- has an ear for wry humor, providing his characters with a steady supply of acerbic wit.

As such, Bayrle invented a unique visual language through the production of collages, paintings, sculptures, films and books, while combining allegiances to Pop, Conceptual and Op art with wry humour.

This is a gutsy choice on Evison's part but allows for wry commentary on the course of Harriet's life as well as musings on the nonlinear nature of memory: «Yes, we're getting ahead of ourselves again, but hey, it happens, Harriet.

There are moments of wry comedy — some of them courtesy of one - scene actors such as James Spader and Tim Blake Nelson — and prairie philosophizing, but also stray absurdities, and sudden violence, and one upsetting plot turn that seems questionable at first but eventually feels appropriately sad and stirring.

Marc Simont, who modestly illustrates Russell Baker's wry look at the Washington Senators (page 40), has appeared in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED»S pages 66 times in the last decade.

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

Known for his immersive cake - like installations, Scott Hove's latest makings offer wry commentary upon the demise of today's political, economic, and ecological landscapes in «Last...

Sticker Star's lavish tapestry of neat touches keeps you pushing forwards in spite of the wonky puzzling and boring combat, and its vibrant, buoyant world marries so well with the script's deliciously wry take on Mario's classic tropes.

The film is peppered by Berkowitz's own narration, in which he makes wry comments and observations on the events in retrospect, and, I suspect, he's also taken certain dramatic liberties with some situations (most notably, the downward fortunes of his producer, Elie Samaha).

Our experience has been very unrewarding in treating wry bite orthodontically.

For instance: With over a decade writing obituaries for the local paper, Jane has a uniquely wry voice that shines through in her newest collection of essays on the importance we place on legacy.

Superb characterizations and riveting action are leavened by wry humor, making Deutschland delightfully addictive.

«The Walk» is worth seeing on a big screen for its final wire walk (intrusive voice - over notwithstanding), for its lovingly recreated images of the World Trade Center, for its often wry humor (including a marvelous running gag involving an elevator operator) and for some of the supporting performances (notably Kingsley's pitch - perfect mentor performance, and James Badge Dale's turn as a wise - ass Franco - American who joins the team infiltrating the towers).

Yokota: About the appearing characters, we ended up making Koei Tecmo Games really troubled (wry laugh).

Pavlisko layered Harold «Doc» Edgerton's stop - motion photographs with vintage NBA posters, and the consequent accumulation of balls, baskets, and explosions (to which Pavlisko added comically melodramatic sculptures of drooping violins) made wry work of athletic machismo.

Vestibular disease in hedgehogs is also called wry neck.

Disqualifying faults are: entropion, ectropion, overshot, undershot (when incisors do not touch or mesh); wry mouth; two or more missing teeth, unilateral cryptorchid or cryptorchid males, long coat, any base color other than black and absence of all markings.

The feature film debut from director Jim Mallon (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie), BLOOD HOOK is a distinctly comedic slasher that mixes copious bloodshed with wry satire.

Unapologetic with its indecent, wry wink at unconventional Church - related moral fragility, The Little Hours is literally and figuratively a bad habit for a trio of noxious nuns on the run.

They were pawed and backslapped to exhaustion, leading a local paper to run the headline CLUTCH - AND - GRAB FANS HAIL CANUCKS, in wry response to the media's endless references to the team's style of play.

The profession abounds in wry jokes directed against itself to the general point that the freshmen are getting younger every year.

Towards its end, the film begins to play like a greatest hits collection, with wry nods and winks to his most woozy thrillers.

Toby Jones brings wry relief as Mason the company cook, fighting a losing battle against the uneatable, while Stephen Graham finds comradely warmth amid the gloom.

Told in a unique style and with a sense of black comedy that doesn't elicit loud laughter but rather wry chuckles, the film holds up well on its own merits.

These were canny, realistic believers whose wry view of self and others could be as well confirmed by the poet, the existentialist novel, or one's own analyst, as by theology.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

True, they capture that wry self - deprecation and slightly wounded winsomeness.

The exhibition's wry title, «Daddy, I want to be a black artist», can be seen as a playful call to action for young people to find inspiration in the works of black British artists and become the artists of tomorrow.

Though the actor spends much of Death Wish buried beneath hoodies, the film offers an uncomfortably direct view of his almost animatronic deployment of his signature tics, from wry smirks to stone - cold staring.

The Surrealists, informed by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud, also believed in the efficacy of powerful subconscious associations with objects, which gave their assemblages an added level of theoretical obfuscation that often translates into wry humor.

The protagonist in French director Jacques Nolot's drama - the last in a trilogy - concerns a bon vivant, now HIV - positive, and his philosophical and wry outlook on life as he faces his final chapter.

I watch with wry amusement as the Westminster tribe try and work out how to do so.

The film is embellished in a charmingly wry style, with a lilting melodic wonder telling a bona fide fable of a working man's plight.

It offers a brand of humour that results in an internal gesture of wry acknowledgement rather than actual honest - to - goodness laughing.

The artist is scheduled to produce a new piece for MOCAD in February of 2016, and if he continues on this trajectory, one might expect an endurance piece that breaks down the conventions and myths of the artist and musician in gorgeous and wry ways.

Moonrise Kingdom Year: 2012 Director: Wes Anderson At the time of making Moonrise Kingdom, after seven features, Wes Anderson became unmistakable: white, upper - middle - class dysfunctional families deadpan wry dialogue amid meticulous mise - en - scène to an eclectic soundtrack.

Otherwise the blank, cantilevered shapes pay wry homage to Marcel Breuer's Brutalist architecture for the Whitney on Madison Avenue.

Joyce J. Scott uses wry wit and humor to tackle complex, painful subjects with refined materials.