One columnist wryly noted that the Framers would not have signed a constitution abolishing slavery.
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"No one anywhere has concluded that our currency measures have been a spectacular failure, " he said wryly.
No, we're not talking about Kit, the wryly soft-spoken roadster from the '80s TV show Knight Rider.
The oncologist noted wryly how much easier it would have been for her just to prescribe the chemotherapy.
Master watchmaker Richard Mille, who won the award in 2007, wryly suggested they give it to Journe automatically.
"They're always waiting for something to happen with their phones, " Dale notes wryly.
But when I suggest that must mean business is good, he says wryly, "you should see my bank account".
But his Everyman-ish qualities serve him well in "Man on a Ledge, " director Asger Leth's wryly twisted caper film.
He writes in an endearing first person voice that can be both wryly observant and objectively fair at once.
There was general laughter, and as Hopkins got up from the sofa, he wryly misquoted Tertullian's praise for Christian love.
At her confirmation hearings in the Senate this week some of Ms Kagan's Republican interrogators wryly acknowledged the truth of the matter.
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Both were wryly funny and much reported on, and only languished even more criticism on the already-unpopular changes in the well-known brand identities.
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Stahl is portrayed as just about the most wryly likable junkie you'll ever come across ... or, at least, that's how everybody treats him.
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"I didn't know what I was getting into, " Alemany wryly recalls, reflecting on her first meeting with her direct reports--17 of the 18 were men.
"I did what I thought was, if not a legitimate, then at least a usual, thing I took it out on those around me, " Mr. Mamet says wryly.
She smiled wryly and spoke with a trickling Icelandic accent.
While most of the major airlines long resisted giving domestic-partner benefits, now, Caplan notes wryly, you'll see them aggressively marketing their services to gay consumers at San Francisco's annual pride parade.
The parish priest (David Sitler) wryly informs the audience at the outset that, while the story occurs in springtime of 1951, in Ireland it still felt like "a thousand years" earlier.
The duchess landed the job after an appearance on American Television earlier in the year when she was promoting her own cook book - but wryly admitted that she couldn't actually cook.
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"I'm here to be the skunk at your garden party, " Grove said, noting wryly that his remarks coincidentally fell on the same day as one devoted to promoting nationwide screening for psychological depression.
Mr Ferguson notes wryly that the latest targets of attack are social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are said to expose children to paedophiles, invade their users' privacy and facilitate riots.
As Mr. Moynihan once wryly understated it, such a move would simply be our deciding to "get used to a lot of behavior that is not good for us" let alone for Israelis and Palestinians.
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Most people on the street, talk about the glen, which is what locals call Pittencrieff Park, although one woman comments wryly that Carnegie would "have a fit" if he saw the state of Dunfermline now.
Gatland was wryly referring to Hook being picked off by Alexis Palisson in their Six Nations defeat to France last February, just one in a Welsh trend this season for handing tries to the opposition.
Economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen took a crack at it in The Theory of the Leisure Class, the 1899 classic that wryly posited the theory of "conspicuous consumption, " his phrase for keeping up with the Joneses.
There was little to fault in the way Kim Jong Il comported himself at the summit (although commentators in Seoul did wryly note that during one celebration he slung back 10 glasses of wine to five for President Kim).
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