wryly

• “According to Albert Camus it is "a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question" - which may explain why we usually use the term wryly, or sarcastically these days.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “Like his father and several other ancestors, Churchill wrestled with bouts of depression, which he referred to wryly as "the black dog.”

  The Washington Post: Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles

• “Although a formal bid never materialized, some investors may recall wryly that Sir Philip was mooting an offer of”

  The Wall Street Journal: HSBC Has Gone on the Civets Trail

• “Here's our favorite, and we use that word wryly: In 2008, the average price for one square foot of space in a top-notch Class A Manhattan office building was a bubblicious”

  Home | The New York Observer

• “I would flirt with him," she recalls wryly, her come-hither eyes and heart-shaped lips still echoing the days when she was decreed "Rock's Venus" by Rolling Stone.”

  Vox Verax

• “I would flirt with him," she recalls wryly, her come-hither eyes and heart-shaped lips still echoing the days when she was decreed Rock's Venus by Rolling Stone.”

  Taipei Times

• “There's much to admire here: the sheer energy of the rhetoric of enumeration; the way the entirely man-made landscape alongside becomes the objective correlative for the consumer culture which has spawned it; the accumulating rhythmic patterns shaking out a kind of wryly humorous verbal jazz—I especially like the last sentence for that.”

  The Lay of the Land

• “As Ahlstrom wryly observed, these civic embodiments of religious sentiment were not forced upon an unresponsive people by a few pious political leaders.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “However, as the author herself notes wryly, she had "amassed her own ridiculous wardrobe for an Islamic country.”

  The Huffington Post: C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle

• ““Nobody gets too worked up about the deficit when the government gives money back to them,” the House Democratic leader would wryly note.”

  Simon & Schuster: O: A Presidential Novel

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