Nish took a wry pleasure in put-ting it that way.

A look of wry pleasure crossed Treesa's face.

"I get the point," she said, but in her voice there was none of the old wry pleasure in her own wit.

Larkin first wanted to be a novelist, and early on wrote two novels that still give wry pleasure.

There is a certain wry pleasure we will get out of seeing the Democrats lash their President.

You remind me of a prisoner in the death house who takes a wry pleasure in doing things like registering to vote.

He turned on his heel and left the office, slamming the door violently behind him, taking wry pleasure in the childishness of the gesture.

Then he looked up again with a mercantile glint, his half-face twisted as if in wry pleasure, looking from the pale man to the dark.

By such little victories are wars and hearts won, Amberdrake thought with a wry pleasure, as he led the way.

Have you had the wry pleasure of having your books stolen by honest people?