make a wry face
Example Sentences
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History already has come to make a wry face on tasting the wine from N�rnberg's chalice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave his big paw in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Mr. Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Humiliation.—If in a large sack of profit we find a single grain of humiliation we still make a wry face even at our good luck.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
From time to time he would interrupt operations to make a wry face and, blinking his eyes, to lisp out rapturously, "Sour!"
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham
