| This is not merely a matter of pressing the First Amendment to a dryly logical extreme. |
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| Those words had their desired effect, and her throat instantly clenched up dryly. |
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| In the midst of all the flash there are two amazingly iconic lead perfs and a shockingly cynical, dryly served final twist. |
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| In a dryly humorous touch, the woman's firmly placed heels seem more than adequate substitutes for the chair's missing front legs. |
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| Long escapes the scholar's temptation to be dryly academic, enlivening her book with unexpected and entertaining love stories. |
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| The oil paint is used dryly and sparingly in the unceremonious manner of practiced mural painters. |
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| Sometimes his pigment catches the canvas threads dryly, leaving the dips of the rough weave coloured only by the undercoat. |
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| He seems abrupt and uncompassionate, and dryly asks what Dabii wants of him. |
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| Suddenly this dryly humorous film assumes a dangerous mood and darker comment on Antoine's life. |
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| The film that follows is a dark, dryly humorous critique of class privilege and artful etiquette. |
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| While someone may look at my collection and think it's sort of dryly analytical, it offers many levels of engagement. |
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| Others, hoping that the grapes would ripen even further, waited too long, ending up with high alcohol, dryly tannic wines that were low in acid. |
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| In no case the dirt is to be scratched off dryly or rubbed off, as micro scratches result. |
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| They are not only able to dryly transfer the heat, but are also able to work with spraying. |
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| He feels very self-conscious and swallows dryly, clearing his throat. |
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| I swallowed dryly and rediscovered at least a part of my wit. |
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| The tales are sometimes dryly humorous, but often just heart-breaking. |
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| Bob, a veteran of many company trips to China, laughed dryly at my quick-draw. |
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| I shivered a little, and dryly advised him to remember better where he had stored the precious liquid. |
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| He hated TV for chasing fads and its vacuousness, but also because it paid him too little, notes Itzkoff dryly. |
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| When we chatted in 2011, Rourke dryly noted that his songwriting credits with Morrissey resulted in no royalties. |
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| Arias dryly responded that her memory was affected by men screaming at her the way Martinez and Alexander had done. |
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| Skipper Dave dryly remarks that he isn't so sure about this one, as it lies on a flat sandy seabed close to a small reef and he doesn't have it buoyed. |
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| He then observed dryly that of the 137 nations that had been supposed to vote 'Yes', seven had voted 'No' and two had voted to abstain. |
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| It is creamy with seduction, gruff with pain and dryly amused at the bitter jokes of fate. |
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| The summers will do dryly and hotly the winters rakes for a long time, hard and also dryly. |
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| Lacquered and high gloss fronts should never be cleaned dryly. |
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| When Mr. Blackman was asked during the trial whether One Inner Temple Lane verified pupilage applicants' prior employment claims, he answered dryly. |
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| One observer notes dryly that he can think of no other city where mayoral candidates would compete to see who could sound the most anti-business. That may be unfair. |
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| Last year the central government put the wetland under state protection, although Yu Weidong, an ornithologist at Shanghai Normal University, dryly observes that it took two decades of lobbying to achieve this. |
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| Switch to infrared, « Davis commanded dryly. |
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| The politicians he's attacking are required to be serious, both the Tory stuffed shirt and the young female Labour upstart, who is dryly funny in private but can't risk showing it in public. |
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