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
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
He was so cleanly in his habits, so brave and knightly, so very polite, and had a happy mixture of drollery and decorum about him which was quite charming!
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables
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
That they somehow manage to sustain the deadpan drolleries and laugh-out-loud situations is truly remarkable.
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
Then one or two began to laugh and utter some poor drolleries; presently the sound spread, and within three minutes the whole pit was full of chatter and uproar.
From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
