Meanings of wryness in English

The expression of intense focus faded, to be replaced by wryness.

Beneath all the wryness and self-deprecation is an undercurrent of carefully controlled anger.

At times, it reaches for the sub-indie wryness of an Alexander Payne road movie.

Margrit heard the note of wryness in her own voice as she ended the call.

Bennett writes with clarity and wryness about a Russia on the brink of popular revolt.

As I finish, his hurt gives way to wryness.

Gabby's voice held a touch of wryness.

There's a wryness to this thought.

Her wryness prevailed above all else.

She looked both wry and needy, but the wryness was more appealing to him than the neediness was unappealing.

Some radio wryness -what is it to feature a blind man in a medium that no one sees?

He would never say it so I did, not excessively irreverently or sacrilegiously, I felt; perhaps a certain wryness in my voice.

There was the smallest possible twist of wryness to the man's lips as he admitted to himself the necessity for the final words.

Vowler is a writer of intricate, intelligent fiction, with a welcome wryness, and an interest in the macabre, that is lightly but surely woven throughout.

Wryness sparked in Chelsea's expression, more vivid than speech.

We're in... Wryness filled his voice again.