(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".
Laconically
Definition:
(adv.) In a laconic manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
(2) Just over two years later, Harvey, a 29-year-old with a laconic line in humour, can look back on it and joke about it.
(3) Miles, who spoke laconically and without passion, recommended that the tubes remain in place for several weeks at a stretch to minimize risk to a detainee.
(4) The author has revealed a classification based on systematization of most frequently observed pathology, that allows a laconic functional and topical diagnosis and provides phlebological patients with individualized treatment.
(5) As Clarke Reed, the former chair of the Mississippi Republican party who played a key role in the last contested convention in 1976, told the Guardian far more laconically, a contested convention this year is “likely to lead to all kinds of games being played”.
(6) Wittgenstein's reply is said to have been the laconic but absurdly cheerful: "Great!
(7) Spoofing the popular media that lamented the loss of a "great statesman", the weekly's headline laconically read: "Tragic ball at Colombey, one dead".
(8) You must have known,” Price says – laconic, nasal, one leg casually hitched up on the bench, endlessly jingling coins in his pocket – “that to give a senior public figure an arrest warning could lead to a complaint direct to the commissioner’s office.” Do you not see how important Mr Mitchell is?
(9) Kean dismissed the gesture with a laconic: "I didn't notice it."
(10) "We've all read the same spy novels," one said laconically.
(11) Mackenzie flew to Brazil this week as Ferreira came under increasing fire from local authorities, residents and media for what many saw as a laconic response to one of the South American nation’s worst mining disasters.
(12) Greater dementia severity in the SRD subjects was associated with laconic speech that was syntactially less complex.
(13) Probably not a good idea,” says a suitably laconic Chris Pratt in the trailer, which probably tells you everything you need to know here.
(14) Downing Street clarified the statement by laconically pointing out that "it's hardly surprising that UKTI DSO are seeking to promote defence exports – that's their job".
(15) At one point, Focus revealedon Monday, he had asked laconically why the police couldn't have waited until he was dead.
(16) Don’t expect a wild change of tack from Cohen, who turns 80 the day before the album comes out – Popular Problems is as laconic and gravelly as ever.
(17) From the start he was academically brilliant, in his off-beat and laconically concise way.
(18) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
(19) Official coverage in Russia of Novodvorskaya's passing has been muted, and President Putin's office issued a laconic statement .
(20) The problem with Dave is he’s so laconic, which I discovered recently is a posh person’s way of calling someone bone idle.