Renault's technical director Bob Bell, whose new car was unveiled on Monday, was at least able to muster some wry humour out of the situation.
That kind of wry humility keeps the narrative of Just Kids fresh and down-to-earth.
Network Rail's pleas are likely to raise a wry smile from the former chairman of Railtrack, John Robinson.
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How company began: After business school and a stint in the Dutch Marines, Mark Diks--a no-nonsense type with a wry sense of humor--went to work as head of sales at his family's iron-bed manufacturer, where he saw how fragmented the furnishings market was.
True to the company's laid-back, jeans-and-sneakers culture, Karp's wry sense of humor remained intact on Monday morning, when all employees were summoned to a meeting in Tumblr's New York headquarters.
At first, this intellectual-property strategy seemed to be just another of Bikram's wry jokes.
Once again, Verhoeven uses his wry view of the media of the future to frame a tongue-in-cheek epic science-fiction action saga.
The work is presented on the empty Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square and is a wry response to a square that is dominated by a male, disabled figure.
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He was "a wry and witty broadcaster of immense experience", according to Helen Boaden, controller of Radio 4.
Bervy cracks a wry smile, the look of a man who is willing to be patient.
But it turned out that Pritzker, a witty conversationalist with a wry sense of humor, had plenty of other amusing stories to tell.
The heady conceptualism that Riedel uses relies on a wry sense of humor that, at first glance, is easy to miss.
In the end, the movie belongs to Lane, for her portrait of a beautiful woman mounting a wry, doomed defense against the abrasions of time.
In his public appearances, he has displayed a wry humor and down-to-earth attitude that may help him negotiate the minefield of conflicting views and interests within the vast Anglican Communion.
Back to Vonnegut, who as you may have by now picked up, had a very wry sense of humor.
It's not just the startling clarity of her singing, but also the lovely and occasionally wry songwriting that's bound to capture listeners' attention and imaginations.
Instead of a black hole taking energy in, he's a pulsar pumping it out in the form of pain relieved, at least for a while, by wry humor and an openness to Jane's beauty.
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Paris employs a huge work force to keep the city clean and its use of golf cart-like vehicles to vacuum dog droppings has received admiring -- and sometimes wry -- attention in the international media.
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