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• r  in a weak or pale or languid manner
  she was smiling wanly

• We see him playing pinball in a darkened bar, his shirt clean and his tie carefully knotted; we see him tenderly embracing a drinking lady, played wanly and sadly by Charlotte .
• One dared wanly to hope that the loose, slightly impoverished air of that funny, curiously memorable little enterprise might somehow prevail in our era of more grandiose imagery.
• Then he smiled wanly, shook his head and waved the aide away with the back of his hand.

News & Articles

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• August Burnout: The Butler Stands Tall While Three New Films Fall
  What is the American public’s recreation of choice in late August? Avoiding movie theaters. Exhausted from superhero adventures and apocalyptic dramas, consumers stay away in droves, skipping the new offerings and wanly patronizing the very few holdover films that have earned cheery word-of-mouth. For the first weekend since late February, no movie earned as much as $20 million. And for the ...
  Aug. 25, 2013 - Time Magazine

Quotes

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• Noam Gonick in Eye Weekly
  She smiled wanly at me,says Gonick, "and said, 'Oh, we all have three minutes.'"