wryness造句

• Mankiewicz responded with characteristic wryness : " I've been a cotton picker too long not to know that old Marse can do with the cotton exactly what he wants ."
• One of Cara's more characteristic functions is her comic relief, through her sharp wit and sense of humor, that manifests itself in quick-witted remarks of sarcasm and wryness.
• With an edge of wryness, Ivory said, " That joke, which made me laugh, is going to be remembered long after Alan Parker's films are forgotten ."
• In fact, anyone who witnessed the black-and-white era of TV news could relish the downtime, when Brinkley would be left with little more to offer than his signature wryness.
• The home scenes here are demented episodes of that show, with MacMurray's confident wryness turned slightly anxious and _ when he tosses a few " soul " expressions their way _ ingratiating.
• Especially on his USO tours, which took him to military camps around the world, Hope embodied a peculiarly American wryness, the ability to edge up to sentiment _ even sentimentality _ while still cracking wise.
• In it you could locate the voice of his novels, the wryness and the woe-is-us empathy for the poor souls who are stuck in places that can no longer nourish them with hope.
• At her best, as in the Broadway productions of " Joe Egg " and " Six Degrees of Separation, " this fine actress wears wryness as an armor over vulnerability like nobody else.
• Rachel Cooke in the " New Statesman " said of Toby Jones'portrayal of Baldwin that he " played him brilliantly, turning in an understated performance that combined innocence and wryness to powerful effect ".
• He is disabused, given to wryness, dryness, wistfulness and irony, a rootless, semi-stateless sort of British-American who doesn't know the identity of his parents, dead since his infancy.