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
Lapine’s book is marvelously inventive, full of elbow-nudging drollery and melancholy rumination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
It’s kind of jarring to learn that “Losing My Edge,” LCD’s breakout single, in which Murphy elaborates on the title condition, was born out of genuine desperation rather than ironic drollery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Belle Marshall, with her drollery, was not likely to be dismayed by Wheaton's years and poverty of small talk.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
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
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
Judith was mostly silent, in sheer amazement, although occasionally she could not resist a smile at his drolleries.
From Thirty by Howard Vincent O'Brien
