Sentences with phrase «wry smiles as»

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.

The scene is awkward, but draws wry smiles as well.

The younger women painting big and powerful paintings have a bit of a wry smile as they turn to working on the scale of the New York School.

Not exact matches

Where Summers is seen, even by some of his supporters, as arrogant and bull - headed, Fischer is a legendary nice guy, deploying a wry smile and persuasive arguments to get his way.

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.

Claudio Ranieri may have had a wry smile on his face after finding out that Craig Shakespeare had been sacked as manager of Leicester City.

She'd make a wry smile and say «There's no such thing as a free lunch» to mean «I don't have to give you anything.

(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.»)

Silly is about the kind of cars that, if they were people, would have a wry smile on their face as they fell backwards off a roof into Burt Reynolds» swimming pool while dressed as a duck.

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.

The game has a playful sense of humour, and whilst the writing is unlikely to have your sides splitting, it'll certainly raise a wry smile from time to time such as when your troops can't join you for the next battle because they're queuing for the toilet due to a lack of latrines, or upon completing a level to be told «They took some arrows to the knees!».

There's plenty of wry humour, too, such as Louise Bourgeois's sculpture of herself as a smiling five - legged cat.

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.

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.»

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).

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.

Traders who recall bitcoin's earliest days may shed a wry smile at the mention of such words as «Fontas» and «trollbox».