Sentences with phrase «wry jokes»

When you arrive to Hostal Atlanta, ask for Olly — a lively Brit who mans the front desk, and the bar — he'll crack a few wry jokes (courtesy of his dry British humor), point you in the direction of the bus to Palma, or pull you a beer from the tap after a long day of sightseeing.

Libby Cudmore's debut, The Big Rewind, is much like that box of mixtapes, with its mystery buried beneath affairs of the heart, wry jokes about hipster Brooklyn and a steady stream of The Smiths, Warren Zevon and Talking Heads.

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

(The music resembles the kind characteristically used on the sound tracks of art documentaries, which might well be a wry joke on the artist's part.)

Hecker often masks a work's content with a sardonic wit, but selecting her «anomalies» as the constituents of her award exhibition may be Hecker's wryest joke yet.

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The replies are never short; invariably he tries to fit in a joke or something wry.

The joke above is usually told as a commentary on how the ideas of science are far removed from the concerns of ordinary people, but I see a more encouraging lesson embedded in this wry little observation.

Perkins demonstrates how this postmodern approach to the politics of film creates a wry outlook that is «not entirely joking» (p. 29); detectable in the slightly skewed characters in The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001), Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994) and Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998).

It's a wry in - joke to have a villain worried about the hazards of overpopulation in a film that features nineteen movie stars billed above the title, and I've seen Infinity War lauded in certain circles for «unprecedented ambition» simply because it's so damn crowded.

Davis has everything that Lopez doesn't in Maid in Manhattan: modesty, natural beauty, charisma, a wry sense of humour — you could watch a whole movie about this persona, which is probably what Hughes had in mind, and her one sequence ends with a joke that also happens to be a far more accurate representation of the subtle fear that aristocracy puts in the minimum - wager than any of the Cinderella markers you'll find in Maid in Manhattan.

Again, Monsters, Inc. not a movie that has a lot to offer an adult audience because the script does not contain an abundance of wry, wink - wink jokes that will go over children's heads.

Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain & Chiwetel Ejiofor all turn in quietly composed & honest performances while the perennially under - used Michael Pena & a wry, LOTR joke toting Sean Bean provide some light relief.

For the hardcore comic - book fans, there's the Wilhelm scream, the Stan Lee cameo, the Marvel - history inside jokes, and a self - aware humor that even includes a wry dig at Raiders Of The Lost Ark..

When reading, hearing or looking at a joke there is the expectation of a certain rhythm of build up and release, when a wry truth is revealed.

His paintings are highly - coveted, his work is notoriously complex, yet the illustrated joke paintings embody some of the most radical experiments of contemporary art, all the while eliciting a wry smile.

Being a politician means having to see beyond just those perspectives and being able to attribute value to other perspectives and approaches (cue the wry politician jokes).