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
At his most winning despite his character’s lethal nature, Gyllenhaal keeps up the one-liners and drollery.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
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 for all the drollery, the performance seems carved in a marble of suffering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
I was delighted with his frank good-humor, 377 and a certain spice of drollery in his description of his patients.
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
While Mr. Skinner 'dominated the proceedings, Dapple was responsible for the most engaging drolleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no persiflage of speech, or exchange of light drolleries, as in that conclave enlivened by the conversation of the English viscount.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
