drollery
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The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
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
“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
In back of the drollery he offered would be a desperation, in fact, sometimes a sense of fury.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
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
His whims, his spirit, his drolleries alike have made him an ideal figure of the eccentric and high talented artist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But what can a descendant of Dante, for instance, ever know of the drolleries of Sam Weller?
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
