Drily

But asked how she deals with this reality, “I think depression really did me a solid there”, she says drily “I’ve honestly never really expected to be happy.

Late in the film, the ugly reality reaches a crescendo just as the suspense drains drily away.

Drily voices vibrated in consuming chants; there were ruckus hullaballoos or inexplicable excitement in the opposition camp everywhere.

Selma asks, her face serious, her tone as drily hilarious as it has been for the past hour, even when discussing the state of Hollywood for women and her fears that she’ll never work again.

Robb, 5–6 As the author and literary critic Sir Victor Pritchett explained, "She was certainly drily aware that she had been given to an old husband as a reward for his professional services to a friend of her family and that the capital was on her side.

The solemn ritual of this band of ruffians is all the more comic for being presented in Cervantes' drily humorous style.

Thomasina drily comments, "Yes Mama, if you would have it so".