(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".