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
But mostly when aiming for drollery, the songwriters overshoot and wind up at operetta.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
His eye alone, small and with lids contracted into an habitual look of drollery, betrayed the bent of his genius.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
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
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
His whims, his spirit, his drolleries alike have made him an ideal figure of the eccentric and high talented artist.
From Time Magazine Archive
No well-brought-up child could escape "Adam Bede" and the drolleries of Mrs. Poyser.
From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan
