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

But for all the drollery, the performance seems carved in a marble of suffering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

All of which is very funny — if that kind of quirkiness and drollery is your cup of tea.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

These antics were repeated all the while the observation lasted, and had a very funny effect in proving that drollery is practised, if not understood, in the rotatorial world.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Providing playfully humorous touches and some remarkable stage effects, The Chairs is at times both engaging and lightly evocative, but calls for greater imaginative pressure, has no really tragic underside to its surface drolleries.

From Time Magazine Archive

The short juvenile drolleries of his restless youth are the least defective as works of art; and, being brief and simple jeux d'esprit of a rare order, they are entirely successful and infinitely amusing.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison