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
“Oh, Mary” is also a contender in the best play race, having proved that it’s durable enough not to depend exclusively on Escola’s delirious drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
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
It’s kind of jarring to learn that “Losing My Edge,” LCD’s breakout single, in which Murphy elaborates on the title condition, was born out of genuine desperation rather than ironic drollery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Some of the lines taken singly are excellent:— "And bells make Catholic the trembling air"; and, "Sad as the twilight, all his clothes ill-girt"; and again "Mournful professor of high drollery."
From Views and Reviews by James, Henry
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
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
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
The Seraph was not there, but I found the polyglot Culling explaining for Gartside's benefit certain of the more obvious drolleries of the current "Vie Parisienne."
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
