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“Why try to solve a mystery and in the process end up in all these horrible situations, when you can just quit?” he asks with a wry smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

It’s a wistful, country-folk paean that offers both a wry yet realistic assessment of the disposition of collections someone leaves the planet.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

The fifth instalment of Toy Story has received mixed reviews from critics, who have describe it as being "a warm and wry update" to an otherwise now "played out" franchise.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Mr. Hahn is a wry guide, but heartily appreciative of his fellow practitioners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Now I will be glad if I can go to the cottage this summer,” he said, and there was a wry smile on his lips.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

The wrier is president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Associated Press wrier Sophia Bollag contributed to this report from Los Angeles.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2018

These idiosyncratic artworks, which displayed a wrier side of his personality, were not seen by the public until after Geisel’s death in 1991.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2018

There is no heir apparent to Ms. Winfrey; while Ellen DeGeneres is beloved, her tone is wrier.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2010

“In it, a lord asks a lady if she’ll love him, and she replies ambiguously: ‘I cannot hate.’” wriest McInnis.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2016

I confronted death with a smile; I meet life with the wriest of wry faces.

From Simon the Jester by William John Locke

"That's a perfectly good wish plumb wasted," said Penfield, refilling both glasses, his features twisted in the wriest of grimaces.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown