wry
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Wry character actor’s long career included farcical comedy and chilling drama.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2023
Wry smiles and sense of nostalgia aside, the appearance of crisp packets from the 1960s on a Norfolk beach are a potent a reminder of the longevity of single use plastics.
From BBC • May 16, 2023
Wry, specific, and at times gut-punchingly earnest, Bridgers’ murmur flows like a steady internal monologue, linking all sorts of disparate experiences through her cracked but startlingly perceptive lens.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2020
“The Mole Agent”: Wry, charming, gently observational, this Chilean doc introduces the world’s oldest undercover agent, an 83-year-old man hired to see how a nursing home is doing its job.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2020
More prizes she her beasts than this high breed Wry in the shape she wastes her milk to rear.
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
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