droll

Adopting a droll persona — a red-eyed electronic producer who returned from the dead after a Ferrari crash — Kavinsky was a major figure in the second wave of the “French touch” dance scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Even “Straight White Men,” which uses the old home-for-the-holidays genre as a springboard, can’t help spinning away from the drama’s droll hyper-naturalism toward something resembling performance art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

A ragtag ensemble, a daunting task, an uncertain journey: Here are all the makings of a classic fantasy tale, with the bonus additions of Mr. Stead’s droll humor and eye for whimsical detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

His jokes of grumkins and snarks no longer seemed quite so droll.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Dickens fans will doubtless remember some of the droller names of the characters in his novels, elaborated in the journal he called his Book of Memoranda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

This is a subtler gesture than a few of the show's droller tourist traps, some of them macabre, and some stereotypical to the brink of begging you to scan the background for mimes in berets.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023

The plot, presented in a droller and less hysterical vein in the novel that inspired it, is a sci-fi variation on the theme of social paranoia that has long ruled teenage entertainment.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019

One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

At gatherings, droller members of the audience would sometimes ask him if he could get his elements to play them a little tune.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The drollest dairy origin story belongs to Rhoda Rindge Adamson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

Its not-so-secret weapon, though, is in its driest and drollest performance — that of priceless Tracy Lynn Olivera as the dragoon’s long-suffering better half, Charlotte.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2017

The Division’s drollest commentary comes from the art directors that underplayed the post-outbreak grime.

From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016

The opening statement — "Any resemblance to persons living or dead is, as they say, coincidental" — is among the drollest in Chabrol's oeuvre.

From Time ● Sep. 15, 2010

This Heqet must be the drollest fellow in Egypt.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw