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Example sentences for: wry

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The wry headline over the editorial: "Big Deal."
The LAT headline is a wry one: HMOs PERFORM BEST FOR THE HEALTHY, DOCTORS SAY.
Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.
(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."
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.