wryness

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Noun
  • And the final irony of it all is the speaker was right in the beginning.
    ABC NEWS, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • But Stewart didn’t miss a beat, continuing to point out the irony of subsidies for wildly profitable companies whose workers don’t earn enough to live on.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Film Constellation has boarded sales on Oscar Hudson’s Straight Circle, a dark comedy on the absurdities of conflict, and revealed a first image as principal photography wraps in South Africa.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Why such absurdity in a film about human connection?
    Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These bits of satire don’t betray a lack of respect for the films that came before The Monkey so much as an understanding that the King adaptation is in dire need of a refresh.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • If Demi Moore wasn’t going to win for her career-reviving performance in the horror satire The Substance, then surely British voters would reward Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her searing depiction of depression in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths.
    Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Wryness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wryness. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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