droll
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This droll spook show bleeds into romance and politics and, to our shock, becomes genuinely emotional.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Mr. Dyer’s droll narration might spark readers’ own distant recollections.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
James Delbourgo’s “A Noble Madness” is a brilliant, droll study in the shifting profile and consistent obsession of the stop-at-nothing, buy-or-die collector.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Even if the film didn’t present a fascinating thematic parallel to Johnson’s career, she’d still be perfectly suited for a movie like “Materialists,” which demands its lead to inhabit Lucy’s droll cynicism.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025
"Yes, rich, that's the very word I was searching for, the very word. You have a gift for words, Lord Tyrion, if I might say so. And you tell a droll tale. Droll, yes."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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The Awakening
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