How To Use Droll In A Sentence

Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
So he thinks I'm going to apologize? How very droll!
They are also a classic comic pair in a production that's chockablock with vivid characters: Elizabeth Reaser as Buddy's wife, Beth; Collette Wolfe as Matt's wife, Sandra; Louisa Krause as a droll motel desk clerk. Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
When my putt ended up a foot outside the hole, the caddie said drolly, ‘I said a golf ball, not a soccer ball!’
Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.

He certainly gives a clear account of the growth of his belief, and sustains it by a great many droll notions about the physiology of plants, which would hardly be admissible in the botanies of to-day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.
They all laid out their bedrolls and blankets in a corner.
Hamachi (yellowtail) was soft and buttery, scallops in the temaki (handroll) were crisp fresh in a creamy sauce, aji (Spanish mackerel) was as strong as it should be, and the kanpachi (amberjack on the menu, but when I went to Mori, the elf said it was baby halibut) was interestingly prepared as juliennes in a tart sauce. Archive 2005-10-01
Curious, he went toward the light and after his eyes adjusted, saw a crude camp of sorts, with a small fire going, four bedrolls, and what appeared to be a cache of foodstuffs.
Our bedrolls were back with the rest of the troops, but we opened up the musette bags we carried, which contained extra socks and underwear, toilet kits, a blanket and half a canvas pup tent.
They also have a shrimp tempura roll – the handroll version is great. How Do You Aoki? (Aka What’s Your Ideal 3 Roll Sushi Combo?) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
This was no time to be helping the Guardian fill its pages with droll wheezes.
His droll humour and discerning eye excite the whole. Times, Sunday Times
His countenance was the droll medley of fun, shrewdness, and blundering, that is so often found in the Irish peasant, and which appears to be characteristic of entire races in the island. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
Unrolling his bedroll, Muammar made himself as comfortable as possible, dreams of power and glory still filling his head.
a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
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The performance slides easily between droll comedy and arresting visuals. Times, Sunday Times
Minutes later he exchanges drolleries with first one girlfriend, then another. Times, Sunday Times
Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia. ShoutWire.com
His spirits exhilarated by the unexpected good cheer, the Comedian gave way to his naturally blithe humour; and between every mouthful he rattled or rather drolled on, now infant-like, now sage-like. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03
His droll humour and discerning eye excite the whole. Times, Sunday Times
The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll.
Swag is an Australian term for a bedroll, and a billy is a pot or can with a wire handle used to boil water or cook food in. Backpacking Light Magazine
I ordered some, along with a few standards, Californian handroll, spicy tuna hand roll and sake nigiri.
The thing was done circumspectly, mind you -- nae high-handedness -- but Belle's folk were about Glen Scaur, a droll wandering band, claiming great descent from Eastern folk, and with horses and dogs and spaewife among them; and Belle (as they will be calling her) was the daughter o 'the Chief, a very proud man. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
There are three good reasons about using visualized limb in graphic originality: communicate information rapidly, express sensation deeply and express information drolly.
He told them droll stories, incited their rivalry in study by instituting prizes for which they struggled monthly, and, in short, metamorphosed his department. Stories by American Authors, Volume 6
Here, they sleep in bedrolls or in canvas tents, and eat hardtack and sip coffee heated over an open fire.
Stubbornly, he rolled over and refused to wake, a thin rivulet of droll dripping from his chin.
As a slugger approaches the plate your child says, with a hint of drollery, ‘You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him.‘
You also get Truffaut's interview excerpts with Hitch, which is as close to a full commentary from him as we'll ever have. imagine what a treat that would be: Hitchcock holding forth in droll glory for nearly two hours. Michael Giltz: Halloween DVDs: The Exorcist, Psycho, Troll 2 and More
Peter, your drollish "wolf by itself a lone wolf, one might say" reminded me of a line in an Ed McBain novel I read recently. The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe
Of course, the jokes are all on backwoods Southerners, so if that isn't an amusing subject to you, don't pick up this droll satire.
He was a droll sight, with a battered shako and trousers made of old gunny sacks tied up with twine.
A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class.
People go to these restaurants in search of both "modest risk" and "approbation," Mr. Stewart says, perhaps in the form of an uni handroll. Sushi Bullies
‘I'm going to go to sleep,’ Callio announced and pulled his bedroll out of the wagon.
He was crossing the country with his mathilda (bedroll) on his shoulders and killed a jumbuck (sheep) Recently Uploaded Slideshows
In its gentle, droll and panoramic way it provides a window into British culture. Times, Sunday Times
He made the tasting far less arduous than his younger, more dashing, but decidedly less droll counterpart who was running the show this time around.
We heard some droll stories
He un rolled his bedroll, un folded his sleeping bad, gt his little coffee pot, flled with some water and coffee, placed near the fie stones around the cire circe. Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
“Du bist ein comische man [thou art a droll fellow],” said the lanzknecht, “I swear.” Quentin Durward
Apropos of this small affair, I can recall a droll scene, _de eodem genere_, which I witnessed within a week of the other. Memoirs
She had a droll voice and a rather wicked sense of humor.
Many of the show's laughs derive from Lee's droll determination to take the ditty literally: how can an owl play a small guitar?
The elf tried to get comfortable, turning and twisting until his bedroll was a shambles, then he had to sit up and untangle himself. Dragons of Winter Night
There were also two or three Dutch drolleries, as the pictures of Ostade and Teniers were then termed, with one good painting of the Italian school. The Bride of Lammermoor
We all finished about the same time and Delilah took the plates to a nearby creak while the rest of us slipped into our bedrolls.
He's rather droll when he frames his request, but it's a sincere one.
So - droll sung/spoken vox, chirruping synth loop, mind-numbing repetition - it carbon copies " Once in a Lifetime ".
Hydrolley promoters overstate the cost for catenaries, and ignore the glaring problems that face fuel cell vehicles - waste. Back on Track, Grid Powered, and Gas Free
Shooting offhand is a humbling experience, it's much more fun to shoot tiny groups but it has little to do with hunting unless you're out west with your rifle laid on a bedroll. Too Much Accuracy?
The episodes are structured like suites of sketches, each short scene comprising a comedic set-up, a droll twist and, more often than not, a punch line.
His two female companions, Zombie and Eeyore, swig from a bottle of pricey Tejava tea and pass a smoke while lying on a blanket surrounded by a fortress of backpacks, bedrolls and scrawled signs asking for money. San Franciscans Try to Take Back Their Streets
They chatter, well argue drunkenly anyhow, until around 4am before going to bed in their own separate bedrolls.
But these flourishes never distract from the droll human dramas that Wong has so astutely and amusingly worked out.
His droll manner disguises, but does not hide, an awesome dexterity and emotional delivery of his one-man set.
As I nestle into my bedroll and blanket, I gaze up at the sky and see that a couple of stars have come out and also a gibbous moon has risen in the north.
I let them decide on Tengu, a stylish sushi joint that I can report makes a fine spicy tuna handroll. Lunching in LA: Monday at Tengu
I make no doubt you'll be geyan tired from long travel, and the responsibility of carrying such important documents must weigh down your spirits," I drolled, "and so I will trouble you" -- with a pistol clapped to his head and a sudden ring of command in my voice -- "to hand them over to me at once. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
✒I wasn't really aware of Andy Gray until this week; there was a sort of hectoring know-all in the background of football games on Sky, but if I was actually interested in the result I'd turn the sound off and listen to Radio 5 Live, which is dry, droll and doesn't treat every foul as if it were the invasion of Poland. Simon Hoggart's week: Thinking aloud? Don't be an idiot
As Eve and her friends lingered yet a moment there, watching the picturesque figure splashing barelegged in the shallow water, one of the droll little craft known as Joppa-chaises came up beside them, a fulvous face appeared at its helm, a tawny hand was extended, and they left The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
She lay long hours by the wharf-boats of busy towns, exchanging one cargo for another, in that anarchic fetching and carrying which we call commerce, and which we drolly suppose to be governed by laws. Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
Exploitations of various kinds, in several directions, are recounted in a tone both minatory and droll.
Although both seem to have a droll sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
There are three good reasons about using visualized limb in graphic originality: communicate information rapidly, express sensation deeply and express information drolly.
She was struck by how accurately the Sister had hit upon the peculiar, uneasy feeling she was havinga kind of portent to doom, yet without definable cause, that made the fine hairs at the back of her neck stand on end like when she would be lying in her bedroll, almost asleep, and every insect, all at once, went silent. The Pillars of Creation
There is much droll humour, too. Times, Sunday Times
KING: And it worked for your kind of droll approach. CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2002
Dixwell throughout the review questions the validity of George's logic and his penchant for ‘droll syllogism.’
In general, he was no joker, no anecdotist, and had but a feeble appreciation of droll sayings or humorous matters of any kind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
Here Braham quavered, and here Liston drolled his best -- here Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
“I have the distinct pleasure …,” he began in his droll, circumlocutory, Austrian-sounding speech. Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission
What a throng of volumes, what a flight of tales, novels of all sorts, droll, philosophic, and theosophic. Balzac
I hope the tributes that are paid do not forget his droll and waggish wit. Times, Sunday Times
Clips and graphics are stitched together with a droll, deadpan voiceover and often a declamatory musical score, though Moore's ursine baseball-capped form does not itself shamble into view until well into the film.
A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class.
She calls his droll accusations stupid and misguided, just about. RadarOnline.com
Corthin crouched beside him, her position telling him that the bedroll upon which he lay rested on the ground. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Two or three men intend to persuade you that they play on a broomstick, which is drolly brought in, carefully shrouded in a case, so as to be mistaken for a bassoon or bass-viol; but they succeed in nothing but the action. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
His droll humour and discerning eye excite the whole. Times, Sunday Times
Natalie Portman, apparent soon-to-be Oscar winner, " the Washington Post headline blared, with only a hint of drollery.
It is a bit of quiet , unassuming drollery which warms like good wine.
They were as droll as when I saw them back in February.
Hamachi (yellowtail) was soft and buttery, scallops in the temaki (handroll) were crisp fresh in a creamy sauce, aji (Spanish mackerel) was as strong as it should be, and the kanpachi (amberjack on the menu, but when I went to Mori, the elf said it was baby halibut) was interestingly prepared as juliennes in a tart sauce. CuCi Getting Cosmo - Sushi Karen, Culver City
The film's winning conclusion is also its best twist, a droll and charming take on nonconformity, infused with a lesson about living with an outsider status.
The answers range from the dismissive and the trite to the droll and unexpectedly sincere.
She turns the film from a quietly droll comedy of manners into a screwball farce. Times, Sunday Times
As they were both very conscious people, they recognized in themselves some sense of this, and presently drolled it away, in the opulence of a time when every moment brought some beautiful dream, and the soul could be prodigal of its bliss. Their Wedding Journey
The tabloids did their thing, were quite droll about it.
There was a rending, tearing sound as of some silken fabric being parted biaswise of its fibres, and Mr. Leary's droll after sections vanished inside; and practically coincidentally therewith, Mr. Leary descended upon the rugged floor with a thump which any other time would have stunned him into temporary helplessness, but which now had the effect merely of stimulating him onward to fresh exertion. The Life of the Party
She turns the film from a quietly droll comedy of manners into a screwball farce. Times, Sunday Times
I lived with various communes of people in share houses, or on shared land, I lived in tepees, in cars, in tents, in a bedroll.
But the truth is, such ways of discoursing are fitter to be drolled upon, than to be refuted by any serious answer. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
He scooped her up and took her over to the bedrolls, laying her down there and covering her with a blanket.
These are supposed to be tragic situations, but it is the drolleries and the absurdities that are being enjoyed here. Times, Sunday Times
A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class.
The editor would take a theme and embroider upon it with drollery.
But for Mademoiselle Marie -- ah, there again the droll name, Molli! The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)
Ferguson was sympathetic enough about his stricken team-mate, but could not resist a bit of droll humour.
Those who've seen Michael Winterbottom's film A Cock and Bull Story, a surreal treatment of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, will recall the droll rivalry of Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, playing themselves when the periwigs came off. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
He was already in his bedroll, with Florian curled up at his back, taking the place of Altra as a living bedwarmer. Storm Breaking
He writes well, with a droll sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
We were also treated with a tasting of kurama yama – spicy tuna, shrimp tempura, vegetables, soy paper handroll with no rice. Hours of Mischief at LA’s Greatest Aphrodisiac – Tengu Santa Monica
I grinned at him as I lifted the sleeping Maddie up and lay her on her bedroll under the wagon.
We started with the raw dishes such as sashimi and tuna belly handroll (delicious).
She changed, spread her bedroll out, and laid down to rest.
It sounds like a primarily comic conceit, and an undertone of drollery does indeed resonate delicately throughout.
Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.
The birds twitter, the horn calls back, the mountain folk dance a droll measure, and all's right with the Alpine world.
In some of our towns the holy foreskin has been borne in procession, and it is preserved yet in certain sacristies without this piece of drollery causing the least disturbance in families. A Philosophical Dictionary
At 80, Marceau is still able to molt from joyful to tragic to droll in the blink of an eye, and he insists that it is only his relentless life of solo concertizing that is over.
And his own unique brand of droll self-mockery had his audiences in stitches.
But just as often, the movie is droll, filled with pithy, hardboiled comebacks.
When finished listening, Altair made his way back to his horse, undid his bedroll, and began preparing to sleep.
The "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, contains what I believe is the original of the "house-answering owner" droll episode in our Pampangan variant. Filipino Popular Tales
At the beginning of the program, Rowlison emerged from a 'bedroll' or a makeshift sleeping bag that also serves as a suitcase that holds everything "accept the horse and the saddle. Beatrice Daily Sun News Articles
The Family that Plays Together" … a drollish joke at their own expense given that Ed Cassidy, the drummer, was Randy California's step-dad (and by the way, still alive today) and a mere 45 or so. Irish Blogs
He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest "phiz" in dogdom. The Story of My Life
And there had been -- some sort of an argument -- with a drollish old man -- concerning all homely girls in general and one very specially homely little girl in particular. Little Eve Edgarton
The editor would take a theme and embroider upon it with drollery.
Hould your tongue, jewel," drolled the little junior, who delighted in exaggerating the brogue that tripped naturally off his Irish tongue. The Dop Doctor
He turns to Cymry and widens his eyes, giving her such a droll, woeful and aghast look all in one that she starts laughing anew.
In allusion to those remarkable feats of arms and -- legs -- Early's or Stuart's raids and Jackson's forced rapid marches, almost at horse-speed, when the men carried no rations, but ate corn-ears taken from the shucks and roasted them "at their pipes," the droll ruler would bring in that "mewl" again: The Lincoln Story Book
As I nestle into my bedroll and blanket, I gaze up at the sky and see that a couple of stars have come out and also a gibbous moon has risen in the north.
His sometimes droll remarks might annoy some readers, but to me they seem a very effective way of delivering not just censure but also ridicule.
She settled into her bedroll and ran a slender hand through the mass of wiry black hair atop her head, pulling it back into a ponytail.
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Fargo, inexplicably, is sometimes categorized as a comedy by those that find pulverized body parts in wood chippers to be delightfully droll.
Although he possesses none of the blarney and bluster of his southern Irish contemporaries, the humour is droll, earthy and occasionally laugh-out-loud.
She lay down on the only comfortable furniture provided: a cotton bedroll with a woolen quilt to keep her warm and feather-stuffed pillow for her head.
Perhaps, I think, he just went out on one of his famous walks, walks that I shared for many droll miles.
Shrugging I put the bottle in my backpack and started to roll up my bedroll.
I ordered some, along with a few standards, Californian handroll (fresh crab, they assured me), spicy tuna hand roll and sake nigiri.
He had always assumed she was a genius, her name a droll ironic touch. Some Fun
One might, if one is no slave to occidental prejudice, suggest Chuang-Tzu, who was more adept at the droll and the fantastic.
It was not until they were banking the fire and breaking out bedrolls to sleep on the beach that Dan finally found Sammy fast asleep amid the stack of blankets, hours ahead of them into dream land.
They ate the food, placed their bedrolls on the ground, and went to sleep.
In another, equally droll work, the drama of unrequited love has taken its participants into their dotage as a wheezy, white-haired poet still woos his Muse six decades past her prime.
Never, ever, have I heard anyone speak of himself as a "spelunker," and the thought that someone might be about to spelunk is droll. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
No matter how serious the topics, there will always be instances when it's impossible not to smile, so droll are the minimalist observations and asides.
Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this book; which caused Rabelais to study to be dark, and even bedaub it with many loose expressions, that he might not be thought to have any other design than to droll; in a manner bewraying his book that his enemies might not bite it. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Dressed in a pale blue coverall, the Reman sat on the ground atop a bedroll, his back against the cave wall. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
These two great advantages may be made by those who frequently study poets; — the learning moderation, to keep them from unseasonable and foolish reproaching others with their misfortunes, when they themselves enjoy a constant current of prosperity; and magnanimity, that under variety of accidents they be not dejected nor disturbed, but meekly bear the being scoffed at, reproached, and drolled upon. Essays and Miscellanies
There is a sort of drollery here, beginning with ‘crumbles’.
Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far.
Mala groaned, picked up her bedroll, and moved to where their horses were tethered.
The droll humour is another. Times, Sunday Times
The hinge of the mirth was made to turn upon the irresistible drollery of one man's running away with another man's wife, and the outrageous fun of the consequent suicide of the injured husband; the _bons mots_ being most tragically humorous, and the aphorisms of the several characters facetiously concatenative of the nouns contained in the leading name of the piece -- "_Love_ and _Murder_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841
And his own unique brand of droll self-mockery had his audiences in stitches.
The use of old cut-out photographs of the main protagonists, against backcloths, is a neat stylistic device and Evans' narration is droll and knowing.
The inside was roomier than he'd expected, with a bedroll, table, and a pair of makeshift chairs taking up the back half of the tent space.
Dinael rolled out the bedroll off to the side, gesturing for Amerial to take a seat, as he dug through his packs once more to pull out some food and a wineskin filled with water.
The whole scenario is rather droll at this point.
Within this context, bumbling assistants and loose-tongued associates screw up and screw each other to a dry, droll, parodic effect. Brad Balfour: Q&A: Channeling Cheney/Rumsfeld, Veteran Actor David Rasche Steps In the Loop
I should also concede that there is quite a droll sense of humour behind this faux site. Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe it's just that in making way for new words like blog and bromance, staycation, and chillax, we use up the lexicological shelf space that used to accommodate words like assectation, following something else; or drollic, which describes puppet shows. NPR Topics: News
[56: 1] "But then 'tis as full of drollery as ever it can hold; 'tis like an orange stuck with Cloves as for conceipt. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
The current news was droll and uninteresting, blabber about the economy and whatnot, things for which at this stage he had no care.
His droll humour and discerning eye excite the whole. Times, Sunday Times
Poets, journalists, casual poker players and world-class professionals all tend to gush over its lapidary prose, sage hold'em insight and droll use of cowboy patois as they pass around hard-to-find copies.
As I headed for my tent I looked around at the men wrapped in their bedrolls on the ground and wondered if they slept easy or dreamt of some useless battle that should never be.
If you're looking for a nice enough, quirky and droll adventure film that you won't remember on Monday, then here's your movie.
It digresses into long corridors of thought, quiet corners of droll humour.
Phineas Brock stretched out atop his bedroll beside the campfire, folded his arms under his head and gazed up at the crowded night sky.
The three brothers spread their bedrolls out beside the fire and even though their minds were racing they fell a sleep quickly.
With his sleep-eyed stare and droll delivery you'd swear he was hittin’ the doobie right before each take.
Whether he's gently lecturing his daughter on the value of pancakes (in a droll suburban accent) or putting the smackdown on Raji, Cedric is electric.
Dent May is not only a fine ukulelist but has also made perhaps the drollest album of comic songs this side of Martin Mull's Undefined
The play is packed with quirky touches and droll parallels and, at its best, exudes a sense of wonder and mystery. Times, Sunday Times
Young boys carrying bedrolls start pestering passengers to hire a roll for a good night's sleep.
Surely the man who dispatched such droll rejection slips to thousands of chagrined writers should not be too dismayed to find himself paid back in kind-albeit with, as editors are wont to say, sincere regrets.
In the Patersons' hands, the story still crackles with drollery and wordplay, but it is considerably lighter on exposition and magical esoterica. Imaginative Twists On Forgotten Tales
They're droll, yet morbid, featuring amusing little colorful happy people behaving with perfect presence of mind as their 747 ditches into the Atlantic.
Not only did the wagon have to carry food supplies and cooking utensils, it had to carry the cowboy bedrolls and other personal items.
He sat up on his bedroll, his head almost touching the canvas above. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
Long after he made me a formal retractation of the sermon and a formal apology for the pain he had inflicted; adding drolly, but truly, ‘You see, at that time I was so much younger than you!’ Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Him whom we allowed formerly for a certain pleasant subtilty, and natural way of giving you an unexpected hit, called a droll, is now mimicked by a biter, who is a dull fellow, that tells you a lie with a grave face, and laughs at you for knowing him no better than to believe him. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
Gaston Monescu's refined taste, elegant dress, high British accent, and droll charm denote his dandyism from the film's beginning.
I have no desire to magnify the service I render thee in making thee acquainted with so renowned and honoured a knight, but I do desire thy thanks for the acquaintance thou wilt make with the famous Sancho Panza, his squire, in whom, to my thinking, I have given thee condensed all the squirely drolleries that are scattered through the swarm of the vain books of chivalry. Don Quixote
Mrs. Drollmere had been a lively woman with a shrewd and witty sense of humour.
There was just a squirt of pure wasabi inside a handroll.
The viola and first violin found a droll savagery in the waltz, while the scherzo turned into an explosive rage of protest. Times, Sunday Times
She's quick-witted, scarily focused, even improbably droll.
The crisp seaweed was the perfect complement to the fatty, melt-in-your mouth fish in the toro handroll. One For The Table: sugarFIX at sugarFISH in Downtown LA
Maybe more time spent in the stacks would have contributed to an understanding of what the word droll means? Techdirt
Offutt's goods had not arrived when Mr. Lincoln reached New Salem; and he "loafed" about, so those who remember his arrival say, good-naturedly taking a hand in whatever he could find to do, and in his droll way making friends of everybody. McClure's Magazine December, 1895
Bubbling over with bright ideas, visual flourishes and deadpan drollery, this is a film of wry smiles and poignant moments.
Let's face it, we smarmy and sarky Brits will throw in a bit of ironic drollery at the drop of a hat.
His dry wit and droll delivery have so far offered some of the most enjoyable radio of the year. Times, Sunday Times
The ikura was a little soft and not quite cold enough to balance the warm rice, and we were a little too full by the time the lobster handroll came around to properly assess it, but we think we liked it. One For The Table: sugarFIX at sugarFISH in Downtown LA
Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said that, starting at primary school level, pupils should take exams in HIV/AIDS just like they drolled Herald newspaper reported. ANC Daily News Briefing
No, I didn't do the chicken dance or anything so droll.
Smiling to myself I realised that Tina must have put me into the bedroll whilst I was asleep as it couldn't have been me.
But much of the writing is droll and flavorsome, thanks in part to an especially talented translator, Anthea Bell. Unlikely gumshoe with grit
The debonair drollery of that title sets the bar high, and keeps it high.
Then he began to deal out his drolleries, such as would make the dismallest jemmy guffaw, and gave vent to all manner of buffooneries; but the Caliph laughed not neither smiled, whereat The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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