drollery

The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

With LuPone’s perversely opportunistic Mrs. Lovett reviewing the prospective cannibalistic menu, his Sweeney perfectly complemented her cockeyed humor with his own savage drollery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

“Yellow Submarine” started out as a lament — “In the place where I was born/No one cared,” Lennon sang at first — but turned into sound effects-laden drollery.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

It was the humorous side of life, even of the tragedies of life, that appealed to him, and he reflected it back with an incisive drollery which was irresistible.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper

Mencken–esque drolleries that serve nobody but their own egos.

From Time ● Sep. 21, 2011

It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010

With her sandpiper walk and her sandpaper voice, Ruth Gordon jigs and jaws through meandering monologues evenly divided between past loves and barroom drolleries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he is no rogue, though he utters rogueries and drolleries.

From Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various