He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him.

A wry trick of others is to request the reader to get off their resting place, inasmuch as the reader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription.

The satirical magazine Punch responded to it by publishing a parody of Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib including a wry commentary on Grace's contribution:

The narrative content of legend is in realistic mode, rather than the wry irony of folktale ; Wilhelm Heiske remarked on the similarity of motifs in legend and folktale and concluded that, in spite of its realistic mode, legend is not more historical than folktale.

The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.

Hawks again named the Nelson / Caan character after a state ( in this case, Mississippi ) and in a wry, humorous twist on the original film, Hawks made him inept with firearms, but skilled with a knife.

As the band began to experiment with theatrical sound effects and baroque musical arrangements ( Nicky Hopkins played harpsichord on several tracks ), Davies ' songwriting fully acquired its distinctive elements of narrative, observation and wry social commentary.

Ironically, the song itself was a wry comment on the music-video phenomenon, sung from the point of view of an appliance deliveryman both drawn to and repelled by the outlandish images and personalities that appeared on MTV.

The Gospel Music Association said: Larry Norman's music – an unlikely mix of love songs, the Gospel message, and wry commentary on American culture – exemplified the goals, ideals, and standards of everything the original architects of contemporary Christian music intended for it to be.

The wry “ Limbo in Lovelock ”, first performed in 2005 by the Hot Buttered Rum String Band, was eventually recorded on their Live in the Northeast CD ( 2007 ).

" As a wry and macabre joke on Tunstall's great affection for horses, the dead bay's head was then pillowed on his hat ", writes Frederick Nolan, Tunstall's biographer.

The painting may be read as Watteau's wry comment on his mortal illness.

" Most often described as " wry ," Brinkley once suggested on the air that the best way to resolve the controversy over whether to change the name of Boulder Dam to " Hoover Dam " was to have former president Herbert Hoover change his name to " Herbert Boulder ".

Abrahams left Jethro Tull following the album's completion in a dispute over " musical differences ," so the album's title may be viewed as a wry commentary on his departure.

Ace's broadcasting career happened by accident, after one night of bridge and a following night of absenteeism, by the show that followed his wry movie reviews on a Kansas City radio station.

Indeed, it was this approach that elicited the wry adage that " a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off ".

Shortly afterwards, concerned that the Dutch might make the shoreline before he could bring them to battle despite his wry insistence that " I am determined to fight the ships on land if I cannot by sea ", Duncan ordered his fleet to turn southwards and advance on the enemy and " bear up and sail large ".

It draws heavily on the atmosphere of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, together with a bizarre twist of 50's underground bondage illustration and a modern quirky English wry humour for good measure.

Ry Cooder was dropped in 1995 and Randy Newman followed Ostin and Waronker to DreamWorks, departing with a wry comment on his own status and the recent turmoil at Warner Bros:

He is best known for his wry poems, often using word play and sometimes bordering on nonsense poetry.

Describing the adaptation as " a witty mix of love stories and social conniving, cleverly wrapped in the ambitions and illusions of a provincial gentry ", critics noted that Davies's focus on sex and money and Austen's wry, incisive humour and the " deft " characterisation, prevented the television adaptation from " descending into the realm of a nicely-costumed, brilliantly-photographed melodrama ".

The bleak and unrefined Permanent Vacation is nevertheless one of the director's most personal films, and established many of the hallmarks he would exhibit in his later work, including derelict urban settings, chance encounters, and a wry sensibility.

These emperors would carefully add new legions, as circumstances required or permitted, until the strength of the standing army stood at around 30 legions ( hence the wry remark of the philosopher Favorinus that It is ill arguing with the master of 30 legions ).

* In the 1986 horror film Chopping Mall, a store in the mall that survivors use to supply themselves with assault rifles, ammunition and grenades is named Peckinpah's Sporting Goods, a wry reference to the director's film violence.

In the booklet contained in the 2007 box set, the album title is credited to " George being George "; apparently Harrison was making a wry reference to the appearance of a bootleg that served as a sort of " Volume 2 ".

That the total development time sums to 180 % is a wry allusion to the notorious tendency of software development projects to significantly overrun their original schedules.

Roy Herbert's review of the paperback version written for the New Scientist magazine commented that " it is an amazing assembly, elegantly written and level-headed, with a wry remark here and there ", and that " this superb work is likely to be used so often that it is a pity it is a softback book.

Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell ( written by Alan Moore ), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus ( aka Deadface ), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

Kentish Town is home to North London's only daily online magazine, The Kentishtowner, founded in 2010, which casts a wry look at the area's arts and entertainments scenes, and features contributions from a wide range of broadsheet journalists and readers.

Akin to Murphy's law, it is commonly used as a wry or humorous warning against the hubristic belief that humans can fully control the world around them.

He is always respectful of other cultures but sometimes makes wry comments.

The last is Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March, during which the audience claps along under the conductor's wry direction.

He is a major figure in English-language haiku, known for his wry, poignant observations.

Hence the Emperor's famous wry comment: " The Empress is a Legitimist, Morny is an Orleanist, Prince Napoleon is a Republican, and I myself am a Socialist.

According to website greatads. blogspot. com, the highlight of the ad is a wry shot at Mercedes-Benz, with the phrase: " Goodnight old luxury and all of your wares, goodnight bygones everywhere ", as a Mercedes S-Class shown in the driveway extinguishes its headlights.

Retro-futurism of the first type is inevitably influenced by the scientific, technological, and social awareness of the present, and modern retro-futuristic creations are never simply copies of their pre-1960 inspirations ; rather, they are given a new ( often wry or ironic ) twist by being seen from a modern perspective.

The word torticollis means wry neck: Acquired torticollis is not the same as congenital torticollis and may develop at any age.

Boston fans sometimes liked to wring some wry satisfaction out of the fact that most of the great 1923-27 crew were graduates of the Red Sox -- sold to millionaires Huston and Ruppert by a man who could not deny them their most trifling desire.

His Picture in the Papers ( 1916 ) was noted for its wry style of discursive and witty subtitles: " My most popular subtitle introduced the name of a new character.

With her kewpie doll looks, combined with a strong Southern accent and wry line delivery, she enlivened scores of films of the era and worked with most of the stars of the period.

The fact that Pechorin was all but a ' hero ' or even a positive character at all in Lermontov's narration stands to indicate Fleming's wry self-deprecating wit about his most famous creation.

The wry humour was askance / off-the-wall / tangential, and certainly different from most comedy of the time.

As with much of his work, it was perhaps most immediately notable for what fans consider its flawlessly pitched dialogue, its wry ( if not sly ) humor, and its evocative and incommunicative understatement.

" Allmusic's Stewart Mason wrote that " it's one of Squeeze's finest singles, marrying one of Glenn Tilbrook's most memorably McCartneyesque melodies to a typically wry and clever Chris Difford lyric.