droll
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
These sorts of surprises bloom from the center of Olivia Wilde’s latest directorial effort, “The Invite,” a chamber comedy that’s equal parts droll and disarming.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
An obvious model for the film is “Babe,” but minus the droll wit, the inspired lunacy and the filigreed plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The actors relish the pesky, droll, frequently adorable, sometimes incendiary individuality of their roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
“It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Dickens fans will doubtless remember some of the droller names of the characters in his novels, elaborated in the journal he called his Book of Memoranda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
This is a subtler gesture than a few of the show's droller tourist traps, some of them macabre, and some stereotypical to the brink of begging you to scan the background for mimes in berets.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023
The plot, presented in a droller and less hysterical vein in the novel that inspired it, is a sci-fi variation on the theme of social paranoia that has long ruled teenage entertainment.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
One, droller than the rest, threw a ball of horse manure.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The drollest dairy origin story belongs to Rhoda Rindge Adamson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Its not-so-secret weapon, though, is in its driest and drollest performance — that of priceless Tracy Lynn Olivera as the dragoon’s long-suffering better half, Charlotte.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2017
The Division’s drollest commentary comes from the art directors that underplayed the post-outbreak grime.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016
The opening statement — "Any resemblance to persons living or dead is, as they say, coincidental" — is among the drollest in Chabrol's oeuvre.
From Time ● Sep. 15, 2010
This Heqet must be the drollest fellow in Egypt.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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