'That shouldn't take more than a year or so,' Sparhawk noted drily.

"Some of the romance is going out of my evening, Harlan," she noted drily.

They entered the case, as one observer drily noted, "through the back door."

"It was the practical matters one had to consider in order to break out," she notes drily.

Pretty soon "the act kind of lost its edge," Weiner notes drily.

Video, as one trade publication drily noted, suffered from "Hollywood's inability to come up with a consistent supply of movies people want to see."

'Repetition in the face of failure has not added credibility to this forecast,' the report noted drily.

The UN independent inquiry drily noted that this was "a role which must be considered awkward to say the least."

The report drily notes, "These are neither effective nor efficient ways to effectuate an arrest."

The President, he noted drily, "did not mention how many lobbyists contributed to his legal defense fund."