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Example sentences for: wry

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A "wry, touching and understated novel" (Francine Prose, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to find out more about Desai.)
The Slums of Beverly Hills never gels, but it has a likable spirit, and it's exceedingly easy on the eye, with lots of pretty girls and wry evocations of '70s fashions and decor.
(The "after all" that completes the title is wry, not just as in "surprise, surprise" but also "after all the cultural upheavals of the last decades."
95 per year for wry political and cultural commentary."
Some critics say the 40-year-old novel, about an adulterous Jewish refugee in New York, illustrates the Yiddish master's wry humor and enchanting storytelling.