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The authors look at their subject with a critical eye, and are at their wryest when describing Reid's longing to be an author of fiction.

MacLeod's books always include a rich vein of humor, and I don't think I'm giving away too much if I report that the name of MacLeod's country is one of his wryest jokes of all.

It is the ultimate special effects-driven popcorn movie, but it also manages to play on the conceits of New Yorkers, with Bill Murray delivering one of the wryest performances in the history of celluloid.

The humor of Some Men is at its wryest when the same pickup line is used in a mid-1970's bathhouse and an internet chat room thirty years later.

But as Dan Schnur, a Republican strategist and one of Sacramento's wryest observers, put it, "Nobody builds statues to the guy who passed workmen's comp reform."

Afterlife is not proved but enacted, although the "Heaven above" may pale compared to the "Heaven below." This is the wryest joke of the poem, and, if fully understood, the saddest and the sweetest and (paradoxically) the most hopeful.

Yet Paul Curran won't allow himself even the wryest of smiles when he emerges from the tunnel to the roar of 70,000 fans at Croke Park today.

I lock eyes with him / in the rearview when I say I live with one." And now, see how the poet resolves that confrontation, with the wryest of witty strophes: "I have legal tender burning in my pocket / to move on, like a cross in Transylvania."