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
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
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
And never were wit, drollery, humor, irony, and sarcasm, rained down upon a bad cause in greater variety or rarer quality.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
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
Soon her wit had effaced the impression of her personal unattractiveness; "and the eyes, which were so plain at first, swam with fun and drolleries, and the very tides of joy and superabundant life."
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
