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- r in a dry laconic manner
- You lucky folks can catch 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the Romanian abortion drama, and The Band's Visit, a drily delightful comedy about an Egyptian military orchestra stranded .
- He did not even keep a diary--"To do so would have inhibited my work," he comments drily in the preface to his autobiography.
- But William Rehnquist, writing for a six-Justice majority, said drily that where the state's standard is not "so irrational that it may be branded arbitrary," the individual's .