The wryness in my voice must have been plain to him.

She looked up at him, surprised by the wryness of his remark.

All the wryness has dried up and left him with a bad taste in his mouth.

He looked upon his career with no regrets and characteristic wryness.

He saw the wryness of my smile and gave me a quick grin in return.

But there was something wrong with the smile, a wryness that took the affection out of it.

He smiled at me again, but this time with a note of wryness in the grin.

There was a slight wryness to her smile, perhaps to cover tears.

He smiled at her, and the wryness she had noticed moments earlier was there in force.

His use of two clear sentences, one right after an- other, smoothly expressing both wryness and hope.

He allowed a tinge of wryness to creep into his voice.

Something - some wryness in her lip - caught Marion's attention.

"Writing a memoir, you're still in control," she said with a wryness characteristic of her father.

"I don't think there will be an assassination attempt on my Government," he said with customary wryness.

"I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women," she wrote with characteristic wryness.

The wryness of that made her lips twist, as if a smile were forcing itself through against everything she wanted to do.

He kept the wryness out of his voice.

He, too, was amused now, a certain wryness to the expression beneath the full moustache.

There was a trace of wryness in her tone.

Yet the film's odd shift from wryness to pathos works to its advantage.

"I doubt it'll be a lengthy investigation," she said with a wryness that escaped him.

After hearing the words, Pilar smiled in faint wryness at herself.

"You don't realize what newspapers are," Gail said with a trace of wryness.

He felt his lips twist into a familiar wryness.

The reporting, aimed at a general audience, became known for its insider's savvy and wryness.