Whatever those ladies had been doing was just human, and she's tolerating it, wryly, dryly. Nathalie, counting, looks contented, enigmatically and wryly smiling into the camera. In the third, Harry pointedly sees the billboard, smiles wryly, and continues without crashing. He smiles wryly as he drives away. Ari wryly observes that it sounds like the name of a beer company. When asked about his profession, Yale wryly commented that he was an "undertaker". The stories were sometimes sinister, sometimes wryly comedic and usually had a twist ending. It's hugely clever and wryly funny, too. Cutter, however, remarks wryly that he "better stay dead". The casting of the other characters was also criticised, though the costuming was wryly praised. "I could take a hint," Zukor recalled wryly. Andrew Dickson of "The New Yorker" dubbed the play "wryly picaresque" in 2015. A "Lost in Translation" drained of its wryly observed humor, "Shopgirl" is worth a browse. Peel had often spoken wryly of his eventual death. Cotton wryly referred to herself as "the assistant".