His "book-hunting disease," as he wryly called it, paid off in just the way he had hoped.

With such evidence lying about, how could any great writer of historical fiction fail to challenge what Vidal wryly calls "the agreed-upon historical record"?

He is trying to avoid what he wryly calls "going over to the dark side" - joining a pharmaceutical or managed care company.

The inn's breakfast room offers especially fine views of what locals wryly call Wisconsin's "West Coast."

Arriving for intravenous medications, the patients gather in what they wryly call, because of its insistently proper decoration, the Dolly Madison Room.

But this nifty little number, which Ms. Schenkar wryly calls "a comedy of menace," may not make everyone who wakes from it long to dream again.

So is the rundown trailer camp the Dardennes wryly call Grand Canyon (the owner proudly adopted the name after the movie came out).

"Very acrobatic, Doctor," Kirov called wryly.

Shyam Dass wryly calls the bhajan belt a kind of promised land, its forests and peaks as close to an American Mecca as it comes.

Unable to decide how severely she has been violated, the narrator enters a mental state she wryly calls "schizophrenia lite."