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
But mostly when aiming for drollery, the songwriters overshoot and wind up at operetta.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
"Not a bit of it!" broke in Hunter, who remarked nothing of the roguish drollery of old Peter's eye, nor even suspected that the speech was made in mockery.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
Providing playfully humorous touches and some remarkable stage effects, The Chairs is at times both engaging and lightly evocative, but calls for greater imaginative pressure, has no really tragic underside to its surface drolleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The short juvenile drolleries of his restless youth are the least defective as works of art; and, being brief and simple jeux d'esprit of a rare order, they are entirely successful and infinitely amusing.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison
