But so do gospel-ish celebrations, wry ironies and melodies of love.

"I can imagine that she was not happy," Xylina said, with wry and sad irony.

Barks's stories (whether humorous adventures or domestic comedies) often exhibited a wry, dark irony born of hard experience.

Al gloated a little over the "triumph" of getting Bob to speak, with a certain wry irony.

Both the louts and the potentially redeemable are portrayed with wry, bristling irony.

The observation contained just enough wry irony to restore the Moor's good humor.

Tears of wretchedness and fear lay very close to the surface, but she couldn't keep from smiling with wry irony at her own capacity for the trivial.

Picardie displays "a sensible skepticism and a wry irony," Lauren F. Winner wrote here in 2002.

Much of it was by phone - no nudging, true, but intonation could help distinguish, say, wry irony from bitter resentment.

They began to call themselves, with wry irony, the Mexica.