drollery
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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
Having unburdened herself, she has freed herself to get on with the drollery of living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
She has a fine sense of drollery, her timing is exquisite, and her manner gentle and touching when the plot darkens and calamity looms.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022
Laura laughed and colored a little--what would offend in a commoner is in a peer pure drollery; and, as it happened, at this moment the rector came in.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
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
In this book Ski-U-Mah's ex-editor decided to double his literary smileage by combining the thoroughly worked drolleries of army life with the equally well-publicized foibles of exurbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
His whims, his spirit, his drolleries alike have made him an ideal figure of the eccentric and high talented artist.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the contrary, he is gentle, low-voiced, and dreamy,—a little too dreamy,—if I must say it, and not sufficiently alive to the rattling drolleries of Lord George and James, who torment him unceasingly.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
