"Jelly Roll is for the kids," he added with a wry smile.
Source: Tennessean
“With his artistic skill in evidence, an agreeable demeanor and a wry sense of humor, Richard fit right in from the start and became a fixture at ILM,” wrote ILM in a statement to the Reporter.
Source: Gizmodo
Underscoring the jokes and romantic push-and-pull is a wry examination of our country’s class divide.
Source: The Independent
Also this week at Siskel, with “A Couple,” nonfiction grandfather Frederick Wiseman makes his fiction debut at the wry age of ninety-two, a telling of the nearly half-century of marriage between Tolstoy and his wife Sophia, opening Friday, December 2.
Source: Newcity Film
Take the wry ode to marriage "The Little Things You Do Together," performed by the full company, which marches nicely through "the concerts you enjoy together, neighbors you annoy together, children you destroy together" to paint the highs and lows.
Source: Seven Days
But it’s obviously a lot more fun being left in the dark, with Plaza’s wry smile to keep us guessing whether she’s toying with her husband or actually getting back at him.
Source: The A.V. Club
“Martin might give us a slight, wry side-eye once in a while, psychologically,” says Shah-Tayler.
Source: Westword
The story is framed by Lester’s voiceover narration, which provides a wry commentary on the proceedings as well as gives the film its narrative urgency when he announces that he’ll be dead in a year.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in Twister (Credit: Universal)It’s this mix of dazzling action, practical and CGI effects and wry humour that perhaps best sums up the Dutch cameraman-turned-director’s career, which began with productions in his native Netherlands, before he came to Hollywood and built the looks of such hits as Die Hard, The Hunt for the Red October and Lethal Weapon 3.
Source: Yahoo Movies Canada
But his wry retelling, focusing on his mother’s outsized reaction (“‘melodramatic’ would probably be the word,” he says) found the humour in it nonetheless.
Source: The Guardian
Ferreira on “mythsysizer instinct,” sprinkling wry spirituality over producer Kenny Segal‘s serene mid-tempo backdrop.
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But where Butler started with characters and imagined a world around them, the series starts with a received notion of the world and shuffles characters around within it, relying on mystery, melodrama and a smidgen of wry humor for its entirely ordinary effects.
Source: The New York Times
With a wry expression, he paused.
Source: Brookings Institution
The wry smile on Planner Nikki Cerra’s face seem to say it all; everyone had seen the info already and was ready to move on.
Source: The Ithaca Voice
Adeem the Artist’s songwriting also employs wry humor to trouble the comfortable myths propping up unjust structures with a deftness not unlike Randy Newman’s withering winks at Southern absurdity.
Source: PopMatters
For example, there’s a wry comment that Kitty, the fifth Bennet sister who never appears onstage, has been left out of the story entirely.
Source: Rochester City Newspaper
Arthur Christmas lacks the overstimulating excess of most kids’ films — it’s endearing and wry rather than bratty and loud — and you can’t top a supporting cast that includes Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, and Imelda Staunton.
Source: Vulture
Clearly excited, Wolff is expecting the same emotion from Russell, but in a matter-of-fact way the young Brit says: “Try and do it again this weekend…”
“Legends grow slowly,” comes the wise reply from his boss, with a wry smile.
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Neon Blue, Joshua HeadleyJoshua Hedley - “Neon Blue’” [Official Music Video]Neon Blue revives the boot-scootin’ sound of 1990s country, but Joshua Headley is a traditionalist in the sense that he adheres to the elements that remain eternal in country music: songs about hard times and heartbreak, told with an open heart and wry wit, married to melodies as sturdy as hardwood.
Source: The A.V. Club
com while walking to the Sharks bus after a 3-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday, he broke into a wry smile.
Source: NHL.com
They’re songs of substance with flawed characters and wry viewpoints, as bleakly topical as Allentown, The Downeaster “Alexa” and We Didn’t Start The Fire; as deceptively cynical as Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, Piano Man and It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
I was in the field for 20 years and know how they are and know what it’s about and I can say that,” he said with a wry smile.
Source: The Southern
He painted wry turns of phrase — “What looks good today may not look good tomorrow,” for one — but also scintillating abstractions.
Source: The New York Times
ListenGift ArticleShareLee Lorenz, a New Yorker cartoonist who oversaw the magazine’s art direction and drawings for nearly 25 years, and whose own work — with distinctive ink-wash brushstrokes and flowing lines — poked fun at domestic life, skewered arrogant fat cats and offered wry commentary from politics to pop culture, died Dec.
Source: The Washington Post
With her wry grin and screwball banter, Deutch is especially delightful, bounding through the cavalcade of holiday mix-ups with the buoyant verve of a bona fide romantic lead.
Source: The New York Times
Mattias Samuelsson had yet to be cleared to return to the Buffalo Sabres’ lineup from an injury last month when the 22-year-old defenseman used his wry sense of humor to try to lighten the mood amid the grind of the 82-game season.
Source: Buffalo News
And that again is a boon at the new location, as the stage is intimate and close the seats, allowing attendees to pick up on every grimace, wry grin and wink from the actors.
Source: Portland Tribune
Angel Olsen Big Time
Angel Olsen's singular voice has expanded across dreamy soundscapes for over a decade, navigating the frontiers of folk, garage rock and orchestral pop with both full-band bombast and the poignancy of a lone guitar, all the while revealing wry truths beneath a warm blanket of reverb.
Source: NPR
Despite the grim, brutal acts of violence that abound, Scott always approaches the proceedings with a wry sense of gallows humor.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
Framing I Get Knocked Down as a debate between Bruce and the grotesque masked alter-ego featured in the record’s marketing campaign, the film is laden with wry humor and thoughtful musings about what happens when outsider musicians accidentally stumble into the belly of the beast.
Source: Berkeleyside
Director Showalter (who mined similar territory in “The Big Sick,” one of the best movies of 2017) and screenwriters David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage display a deft touch for blending wry humor with heartfelt drama, and Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge have a natural and comfortable chemistry in a story that hits a lot of familiar notes but contains some creatively clever devices while packing, yes, a whole lot of heart.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Love and the Christmas spirit blossom as they jam and drink more cider (the hard variety now) in the reception area of the B&B, with the wry but kindly innkeeper (played by Larry Sparks) looking on and winking at both of them.
Source: Bluegrass Today
The film makes no attempt to shield you from its sad ending, only the title does — as if to briefly imply that you’re getting a wry comedy instead of a three-hanky weeper.
Source: Pittsburgh Magazine
“He was charming and had a wry sense of humor, loved practical jokes and occasionally got into mischief,” she said.
Source: Baltimore Sun
Working clandestinely in Iran with the threat of arrest hanging over his head, Jafar Panahi plays himself in this wry, enraged metafictional tale about the prospect of exile and the insidious oppression of religious authorities, one that’s centered on his visit to a border town in order to tele-direct a film across the border in Turkey.
Source: The New Yorker
“Empire of Light” gets its title from the wry illusions of Magritte, but reflects none of their self-deflating humor or conspicuous delight in deception.
Source: The New Yorker
If Yam is obviously Albee and “Dilemma, Dereliction and Death” a wry substitute for “The Zoo Story,” who is Fam? In his biography of Albee, Mel Gussow reveals that the successful older dramatist is a surrogate for William Inge, the playwright who had a string of Broadway hits in the 1950s, including “Come Back, Little Sheba,” “Picnic,” “Bus Stop” and “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” all of which were adapted into films (thus the expensive apartment, with its walls covered in contemporary masterpieces).
Source: Los Angeles Times
Beyond the poor sales and what Weaver called – with a wry laugh- “passionate” fan reception where “some people loved what we were doing, some people hated it,” these games also caused The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind to be delayed.
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Mitzen scores with Casey’s ballad “Safer,” finding the pathos and wry self-reflective moments without overplaying either.
Source: The Daily Gazette
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