wryness

Britpop conveyed Britishness through wryness; grunge articulated Americana through sublimated passion.

He doesn’t have Hannah Gadsby’s verbal finesse, Alex Edelman’s zeitgeist radar or Mike Birbiglia’s off-beat wryness.

It is “a story that the filmmakers tell with humor, wryness, well-earned tears, some smartly deployed archival material and numerous talking-head interviews,” Manohla Dargis wrote when it played at Sundance.

Ms. Barlow continued to defy gravity and scale with sculpture installations that soared, bulged or drooped, combining wryness with eloquence, in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and the Royal Academy of Arts in London two years later.

“You know, it’s too bad it’s Friday,” Holmes said to Robach with a jolly wryness, noting the “great week” he had enjoyed.