- daughter, the
heroine neither idealized nor caricatured, with a strange,
drily romantic flavour. With her
fixity of purpose, her
ready wit, and her deep...
- faith, betrayal, redemption. Some of the
diction is biblical; some is
drily sardonic." On
August 12, 2012,
Cohen embarked on a new
European tour in...
-
importance of the
events recorded.
Generally speaking,
annalists record events drily,
leaving the
entries unexplained and
equally weighted. The
chief sources...
- in
their list of the "26 Best Cult TV
Shows Ever"
calling it a "smart,
drily funny series" and saying, "But the off-beat
writing shone brightest in the...
-
United Kingdom,
banging the desk and
shouting in Russian, at
which Macmillan drily said "I
should like that to be translated, if I may".
Khrushchev was reported...
-
judgment the
Master of the
Rolls gave this
short shrift,
noting somewhat drily that
although clause 29 was
considered by many the
foundation of the rule...
- hard-boiled
style in that he
sticks to
suspense and
describes hero
characters drily.
Araki also said that
Jotaro Kujo
wearing his
school uniform in the desert...
- Mars that counts,
cleverness that
manifests itself in
superlative casting,
drily controlled direction from
Irvin Kershner, and
spectacular settings that...
- and
literary critic Sir
Victor Pritchett explained, "She was
certainly drily aware that she had been
given to an old
husband as a
reward for his professional...
-
monosyllabic words; for example, shy
becomes shyly (but dry can
become dryly or
drily, and ****
becomes gaily).
Other examples are
heavily (from heavy), luckily...
