Droll in a sentence

And with Sally Hawkins playing Langley as a woman undeterred by pompous academics and condescending naysayers, “The Lost King” makes for a charmingly droll tale of long-ago and not-so-long-ago reappraisal.

She’d follow “Metropolitan Life” with another book of essays, 1981’s “Social Studies,” and become a favored guest on talk shows because of her snappy, droll banter.

There's an icicle dagger in the demented heart of William Oldroyd's droll, immaculately crafted, genre-devouring portrait of perversity.

Whereas Newman saw “The Avengers” as a gritty action drama, the droll wit of Diana Rigg and her costar Patrick Macnee transformed the show’s content.

Droll also got her chemical dependency license because a heavy current factor in children’s custody issues is chemical dependency due to the opioid crisis.

He said the only people who know what he’ll be asking locally will be himself, Andy Voorheis and Mark Droll, who are assisting on the technical side of the game.

Mark Morris has delivered another one of his “droll pantomime pieces,” Brian Seibert wrote in his review of “Sport,” which had its world premiere on Wednesday at the Mostly Mozart Festival.

One sequence, which involves a musing repetition on irritation and pleasure – on how one must surrender to tedium to acquire a taste, to stop wishing you were somewhere else in order to be truly present – is relaxing and maddening and rather droll.

This notional storytelling, meanwhile, is interspersed with passages of droll, quiet slapstick — often hinging on man-versus-machine haplessness — and spacey song breaks that run the gamut from fado-esque folk to glum death metal.

But a frisky track with a rockabilly backbeat and droll, squiggly pedal-steel fills are her best chance at getting away with it.

One highlight, Freebird II – the title typical of their droll hipster humour – features a big, satisfying organ melody matched by a blokey singalong for the chorus.

The brainchild of comedian Beppe Grillo, the 5-Star Movement was long considered an itchy thorn in the EU's side at best, a droll antidote to the sometimes deadening debate at the European Parliament.

About the same time, he began to appear as a lecturer and, by his droll and eccentric humor, attracted large audiences.

At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". citation Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse.

But Cabell's signature droll style is clearly in evidence, and in later printings each book would bear a characteristically Cabellian subtitle: A Comedy of Purse-Strings, A Comedy of Shirking, and A Comedy of Limitations, respectively.

Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook." citation Desson Howe, in this review for The Washington Post praised the film's style: "Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic.

Non-satirical humour can be specifically termed droll humour or recreational drollery.

Off-stage demeanor As reported by Louis B. Hobson, "On film, Guest is a hilariously droll comedian.

One meaning is "amusing, jocular, droll" and the other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar".

Plutarch Solon 5 His conversation was droll and frank, and Solon and the Athenians took to him as a sage and philosopher.