The speaker obviously had a wry sense of humor.    From LearnThat.org. 

A wry neck.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Agency, The Sunday Philosophy Club abounds in wry humor and sharp observations of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith: Questions] Reference

But he could also be hilariously funny; recall his wry, brief turns in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

He stared at her, then nodded, his expression more wry than she expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10] Reference

How wry is that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures for Girls « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

He looked up at Sharpe with a kind of wry distaste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

Donnough gave the kind of wry smile only a miser would make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Skin]

One corner of the woman's mouth went up in a kind of wry smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero]

(The book's blurb about the "wry" writing is, for once, accurate.).    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger] Reference

He watched me with a kind of wry amusement that Saul had long ago lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthly Possessions]

And it's got this kind of wry urban humor, although it's a very dark story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exploring New Orleans' Noir] Reference

He handed the bartender a ten-dollar bill and got a kind of wry pleasure out of seeing the picture of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

And my father, with a kind of wry smile, ask Ena (ph) to take us down the hall to see one of his associates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2001] Reference

The peculiar show took a 'wry' look at how a modern day psychiatrist might regard the mental state of one Father Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review 2003: What was the best thing which happened to you in 2003?] Reference

We'd describe Verdi's sense of humor as "wry," if we could even identify when he's used it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queerty] Reference

Damon Albarn and the comic artist Jamie Hewlett, was conceived as a kind of wry Pop Art comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

"Who knew," Angela says with a kind of wry humor, "that riding my bike to work could result in all this.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Shakespeare's tragedies tend to be - but possessed of the kind of wry, humorous wisdom we definitely associate with the frontier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference

" He looked up at Sharpe with a kind of wry distaste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

A kind of wry twist to her mouth, the while Clyde thought of himself and.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

Now Obama looks back on that period with wry humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Obama’s Dream Machine] Reference

"Not since this book came out," Carter said with a wry laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carter's Book Tour from Hell] Reference

Ray Romano gives the gruff but goodhearted Manny a wry, long-suffering wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [THREE MAMMALS AND A BABY] Reference

Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Tamm has an impish smile and a wry sense of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fed Who Blew the Whistle] Reference

Like many authors before her, Neill has a wry respect for the tribulations of motherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yummy Vs. Slummy] Reference

Remarkably, Yoakam's precise, wry performance upstages four of the prettiest boys in Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Beverly Hillbilly] Reference

The icing on the cake is Lily Tomlin as Russ's much-abused assistant: wry doesn't get any wryer.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Grown Up On The Inside] Reference

A wry, self-deprecating man, Tsongas, who died last week at 55, nonetheless saw himself on a mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Of A Truthteller] Reference

Campaigns and entertainment have always been intertwined in America, from rye at the polls to wry pols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Who's Running] Reference

Shandling has always brought an outsider's wry detachment to this most inside-y of show-business satires.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Fired Himself] Reference

He can tailor a joke to fit Roseanne's "gum-chewing dismissal of the world" or Paul Reiser's style of "wry observation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Funny Guy] Reference

Naipaul's earliest novels, such as "The Mystic Masseur" and "Miguel Street," written in the '50s, are wry comedies of manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literature: A Voice For Dire Times] Reference

Giles Coren is the restaurant critic for The Times of London; his column provides wry, often searing commentary on contemporary cuisine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan’s Worst Beats France’s Best] Reference