drollness

Philips, who has worked with Winkleman for many years, says: "I think Claudia's a perfect host. We're seeing another side to her, she's got that wit and that drollness, but she is a tough Claudia, she can be a bit severe and scary, and she genuinely cares about the show and its contestants."

Urie’s patented drollness is the only estimable glue here, in a satire that too often lands with a Jacobean thud.

Though she obviously longed for academic credibility, an essential drollness and self-deprecation perhaps got in the way; more than once she dismissed herself as a “flibbertigibbet,” one in a lexicon of favored “ricochet” words that included “harum-scarum” and “razzle-dazzle.”

Nobody minds a little drollness around here.

“Stories” inherits this knowing drollness, which is why Scarlett is also haunted by a gimp suit and eventually revealed to be just as fine a fit for it as its previous occupant.