These scenes are staged in a dry Brechtian manner that is pointedly unrealistic.

When he spoke it was in a dry, precise manner.

Under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the warmest heart.

Only on the last evening did she let fall a word or two in her dry manner.

But in schools science is often presented in a dry and uninteresting manner.

"That is not at all the same thing," said Mr. Lippincott in his dry manner.

Arum business altogether, Mather had voiced in his dry manner.

But it was only by maintaining a dry, scholarly manner that he could keep going.

"It appears that they expect us to come to them," Judeth observed, in her usual dry manner.

He rose and greeted us in his dry, precise manner.