(1) He said drily: "Wherever there is a smell of oil, big powers start to look around and they find a reason to stay there.
(2) His book, My Story, contains harrowing tales, drily told, of the world of Glasgow policing in the 1890s, and of the politics of the police: he was a keen believer in the rights of the worker, and summarily dismissed (only to be reinstated by public demand).
(3) As Assange noted drily: "It's nicer, particularly given the frequency of equatorial despotism, to be tortured in the computer room."
(4) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(5) One year we invited the police up from Elliot to let the fireworks off and they nearly killed half the people here, it was good fun,” he tells Guardian Australia drily.
(6) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
(7) At the time of Miley's MTV performance, Cher was drily scathing: "I don't think it was her best effort."
(8) "I have not," he says drily, "been asked out of town, or for advice, for 40 years."
(9) "It's difficult to imagine a body less likely to assist the coroner in finding the truth," she said drily, suggesting the committee was engaged in a "politically motivated" delaying tactic.
(10) "UBL left his bodyguards in Tora Bora," one report states drily.
(11) However, if the show does cure humanity's ills, that's cool," he says drily.
(12) Mixing with the elite at the École Normale began another process of disenchantment, when he observed at firsthand that "cardinal axiom of French intellectual life", as he drily called it, "a radical disjunction between the uninteresting evidence of your own eyes and ears and the incontrovertible conclusions to be derived from first principles".
(13) As much as I'm passionate about London," he offers drily, "I'm not passionate about London policy."
(14) "A woman like me," she writes drily, "makes life difficult."
(15) Like Joyce, Flaubert can be drily comic, but humour is dependent on a precise selection of words, registers and double meanings, so I had to take an irony geiger count of every sentence – whose "right" translation lurked just around the corner.
(16) (“You came prepared,” Klára says drily when she sees my long-johns.)
(17) A sure way to get killed,” one of them says drily.
(18) (“It’s fucking brilliant,” Jane replies drily.)
(19) Twenty supporters with dementia and their carers attended last week’s home game (Leeds lost 1-0 to Brentford; “It can’t be all good news,” says Alan Scorfield, who is leading the initiative, drily.)
(20) Drily, Lord Justice Leveson sought to reassure Cameron over his earlier failure of memory, noting this demonstrated "the great value of wives, prime minister".
Dryly
Definition:
(adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The last 13 years, no, make that 30, had taught me not to hope," he said dryly.
(2) You’re not the first person to be let down by Boris Johnson,” a Tory grandee once dryly remarked when I had to stand in for BoJo at some obscure seminar.
(3) She promises to send me some chapters and when I ask if she has a title yet, Haze answers dryly, half-smiling, teasing I think.
(4) Putin is not very popular in the US,” one party veteran operative dryly observed.
(5) A well-scripted and dryly-delivered gag allows the advert to do exactly what it's designed to do - highlight the idea that our brains don't function very well when we're dehydrated, while positioning the advertised product as the solution.
(6) People set to lose their jobs in cascades from April say dryly: "I'm about to join the big society."
(7) He later commented, dryly, that his critics "dismissed my ideas by referring to me as a poet".
(8) Cleese sums up the affair best, observing dryly, "I always felt we won that one by behaving better than the Christians."
(9) When Steel was launching his parliamentary career back in the 60s, Scotland's first minister was a choir boy in Steel's father's church – "an angelic cherub", he offers dryly.
(10) (For his part, Clooney has dryly said that he's grateful to have Heslov around because "he's a magnet for all the paparazzi – he soaks it up".)
(11) Three films into his career, he has already established a recognisable sensibility (dryly funny, inquisitive, plangent) and been honoured with a retrospective at the Irish Film Institute .
(12) And," she adds dryly, recalling the urgent support required by one child's family earlier this morning, "we're quite busy at the moment, really."
(13) "The window for accessing that academy money was about two weeks in January," Renshaw says dryly, "and nobody was told about it."
(14) "I disagreed with him on almost everything," Willis says dryly.
(15) As for the potential impact of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , Mngxitama said dryly:: "In South Africa we are not persuaded by films.
(16) That information, which came by way of a government budget analysis that dryly noted that the NFL’s 2013 revenues of $9.2bn exceed San Francisco’s total annual budget, added insult to injury for residents of the city already feeling inconvenienced and alienated by an expensive, star-studded spectacle that is increasing traffic, disrupting public transportation and shutting down streets.
(17) Faisal's lines are smartly written and dryly delivered, which at least allows him wit and dignity, though he gets none of his real-life action.
(18) I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book Hard Choices,” the former secretary of state replied dryly.
(19) While Pellegrini has dryly laughed off his ignorance by apologising for not being able to score four goals at the home of the European champions, privately he may feel otherwise.
(20) When he finished a job, he’d “sign” his nickname into the deadwax between the music and the label – either Pecko, Pecko Duck, Porky, or his most famous inscription, “A Porky Prime Cut” – and add dryly humorous phrases.